light-mode

A streamlined workflow for small, low-risk changes such as typos, interface tweaks, and simple bug fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for changes that create no new files, alter no database schema or API contract, add no dependencies, avoid sensitive files, and should take under 30 minutes.
Why use it?
It keeps minor work focused by skipping unnecessary process, while requiring a return to the standard workflow if the change becomes more complex.

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/matrixfounder/agentic-development/light-mode
Any agent
npx skills add MatrixFounder/Agentic-development --skill light-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MatrixFounder/Agentic-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 584 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 $0.00023 $0.00584
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00292
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00058

Measured 2d ago against content hash e3e27253407c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

light-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 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.

.agent/skills/light-mode/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Light Mode

Tier: 2 (Load on specific trigger) Purpose: Provide streamlined instructions for trivial, low-risk tasks.

Definition of "Low Risk"

A task qualifies for Light Mode if ALL of the following are true:

  • No new files created (except minor config tweaks).
  • No database schema changes.
  • No API contract changes (endpoints, request/response formats).
  • No new dependencies added.
  • No modifications to files matching: auth*, payment*, crypto*, security*.
  • Estimated implementation time: < 30 minutes.

If ANY condition is false, ESCALATE to standard pipeline.


Instructions by Role

For Analyst

  1. Mark the TASK title with [LIGHT] tag.
  2. Keep requirements minimal — focus on "What is broken?" and "What is the expected fix?".
  3. Skip detailed acceptance criteria if the fix is obvious.

For Developer

  1. Do not overengineer. Fix the issue directly.
  2. Do not refactor unrelated code.
  3. Run tests after every change.
  4. If you discover complexity (DB migration, API change), STOP and request workflow switch.

For Code Reviewer

  1. Focus on correctness and tests.
  2. Skip architectural nitpicks unless they are critical bugs.
  3. Perform a basic security sanity check:
    • No credentials or secrets in code.
    • No new dependencies without approval.
    • No changes to auth/payment/crypto files.
  4. If security concerns arise, ESCALATE to security-audit.

Escalation Protocol

If at any point the task complexity exceeds Light Mode scope:

  1. Inform the user: "This task requires standard pipeline due to [REASON]."
  2. Switch workflow: Call /01-start-feature instead.
  3. The [LIGHT] tag should be removed from the TASK.

Safety Rules

The following files are PROHIBITED from Light Mode modifications:

  • **/auth/**, **/authentication/**
  • **/payment/**, **/billing/**
  • **/crypto/**, **/encryption/**
  • **/security/**
  • .env, *.pem, *.key

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 2d ago First seen · 70 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A e3e27253407c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

light-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository MatrixFounder/Agentic-development (5 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 584 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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