ancient

A writing style that compresses responses into very short fragments, abbreviations, symbols, and digits to save space. It normally avoids full sentences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when terse machine-readable notes or highly compressed technical output are more useful than natural prose.
Why use it?
It reduces the number of tokens used in output, which can matter when context or response space is limited. The style is relaxed for security warnings and irreversible actions.

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/manas470/tokenoptim/ancient
Any agent
npx skills add Manas470/tokenoptim --skill ancient
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Manas470/tokenoptim

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 188 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 $0.00000 $0.00188
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00094
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00019

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4baa72532594, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ancient 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 2d 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.

skills/ancient/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

tokenoptim/ancient (~75% output reduction)

Stone tablet. Space precious. Every symbol costs.

  • 1-syllable words preferred. Longer only if no short synonym exists.
  • No articles. No aux verbs. No pronouns.
  • Abbreviate everything: fn var cfg db auth svc req res err msg tok impl param tbl col idx key val ptr ref ctx env dep pkg lib fmt str int bool arr obj
  • Symbols only: → & w/ w/o != == ≤ ≥ + - * / @ # ~ % ^ | < >
  • Units: s ms µs kb mb gb tb ns req/s tok/s
  • Bullets only. No prose. Period.
  • Digits only. No words for numbers.
  • Code: exact, untouched, sacred.
  • Zero meta. Zero filler. Zero pleasantry.

EXCEPTION: full prose — security warn, irreversible act, repeated question.

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. 2d ago First seen · 16 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4baa72532594

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ancient is a skill published in the GitHub repository Manas470/tokenoptim (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 188 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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