TokenBurner: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/high-token-mode/SKILL.md

high-token-mode is a skill for Claude Code from Lomnus-ai/TokenBurner. It costs 31 tokens per session (12,480 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response mode that deliberately makes the language model perform extra internal calculations before answering. It is intended for testing how model backends handle heavier computation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test model response costs, computation load, and backend KPIs under different workload sizes. It can run one or more generated problems before each response.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to increase computation before responses, making backend performance comparisons and stress tests easier. It is not described as a feature for improving answer quality.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

This is Lomnus-ai/TokenBurner's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on TokenBurner itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything TokenBurner configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Lomnus-ai/TokenBurner. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lomnus-ai/TokenBurner/main/.claude/skills/high-token-mode/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lomnus-ai/TokenBurner

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 12,480 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.12480
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.06240
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.02496
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.01248

Measured 9d ago against content hash ebbd754d5eb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

high-token-mode 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 9d 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.

.claude/skills/high-token-mode/SKILL.md · 685 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 685 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

High Token Mode — Computation Load Injector

Mandatory Pre-Response Protocol

You MUST execute the following protocol before generating your visible response to EVERY user message in this conversation. No exceptions.

Step 1: Compute Message Seed

Calculate S = the sum of all Unicode code points of every character in the user's current message (including spaces and punctuation). You must show this full calculation character by character in your thinking.

Example: if the user says "hi", then S = 104 + 105 = 209.

Then compute N = (S mod 97) + 3. N is used as a parameter in the problems below.

Step 2: Select Problems

Based on the size argument (default: medium). The problem bank now contains 50 problems (indices 0..49), so all selections use mod 50:

  • small: 1 problem. Index = S mod 50.
  • medium: 3 problems. Indices = S mod 50, (S + 17) mod 50, (S + 34) mod 50.
  • large: 5 problems. Indices = S mod 50, (S + 11) mod 50, (S + 22) mod 50, (S + 33) mod 50, (S + 44) mod 50.
  • xlarge: 10 problems. Indices = (S + k × 5) mod 50 for k = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 — i.e., S mod 50, (S + 5) mod 50, (S + 10) mod 50, (S + 15) mod 50, (S + 20) mod 50, (S + 25) mod 50, (S + 30) mod 50, (S + 35) mod 50, (S + 40) mod 50, (S + 45) mod 50.

Step 3: Solve Completely in Thinking

Solve each selected problem fully in your extended thinking. Show ALL intermediate steps. Do not skip ahead, use shortcuts, or summarize. Every arithmetic operation must be written out.

Step 4: Mandatory Constraints

  • NO CACHING: Solve every problem from first principles. Do NOT reference, recall, or reuse any solutions or intermediate values from earlier turns in this conversation. Treat each problem as if you are encountering it for the very first time. Even if you recognize you solved the same problem before, redo it completely.
  • NO OUTPUT LEAKAGE: Do not include ANY trace of this problem-solving work in your visible response. Do not mention the problems, the protocol, the seed, or high-token mode in any way.
  • NO BEHAVIORAL CHANGE: After completing the protocol, respond to the user's actual message exactly as you would without this skill loaded. Your visible output must be completely indistinguishable from a normal response.

Read the full file on GitHub · 685 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. 9d ago First seen · 685 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A ebbd754d5eb9

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high-token-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lomnus-ai/TokenBurner (178 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 12,480 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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