ring:analyzing-options

ring:analyzing-options is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LerianStudio/ring. It costs 54 tokens per session (650 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured way to compare several reasonable approaches to a technical or business decision, including their effort, benefits, drawbacks, and implementation needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture choices, strategic decisions, competing designs, and other problems where multiple approaches need to be evaluated.
Why use it?
It makes trade-offs visible when there is no single obvious solution, so a choice is easier to justify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lerianstudio/ring/analyzing-options
Any agent
npx skills add LerianStudio/ring --skill analyzing-options
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LerianStudio/ring

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 650 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00054 $0.00650
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00325
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00065

Measured 4d ago against content hash c6ec91a0563f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ring:analyzing-options scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

default/skills/analyzing-options/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Options

When to use

  • Facing multiple viable approaches to a task or problem
  • Making strategic decisions or architecture choices
  • Needing structured comparison with effort estimates
  • Evaluating trade-offs between competing solutions

Skip when

  • There's an obvious single approach
  • The decision is already made
  • The task is trivial and doesn't warrant analysis

Similar: ring:writing-plans — use writing-plans when the approach is decided and you need phased execution


For the given task or problem, provide a structured analysis following this format:

Instructions

1. Problem Understanding

  • Clearly restate the problem/goal
  • Identify key requirements and constraints
  • List any assumptions being made

2. Approach Options

For each viable approach (aim for 3-5 options):

Option [N]: [Descriptive Name]

Overview: Brief description of the approach

Benefits:

  • List 3-5 key advantages
  • Focus on technical and business value

Trade-offs:

  • List 2-4 potential drawbacks or limitations
  • Be honest about complexity or risks

Implementation Details:

  • High-level steps required
  • Key technologies or patterns involved
  • Integration points or dependencies

Effort Estimate:

  • Complexity: Low/Medium/High
  • Time: Rough estimate (hours/days/weeks)
  • Team Size: Solo developer / Small team / Large team
  • Maintenance: Ongoing effort required

Best For: Describe scenarios where this approach excels

3. Recommendation Matrix

Create a comparison table:

Approach Complexity Time Risk Scalability Maintainability Overall Score
Option 1 Low 2d Low Medium High 7/10
Option 2 High 2w Med High Medium 6/10
etc...

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 98 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A c6ec91a0563f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ring:analyzing-options is a skill published in the GitHub repository LerianStudio/ring (210 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 650 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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