gsp-compare-backends

gsp-compare-backends is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mike007jd/game-superpowers. It costs 25 tokens per session (212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparison guide for choosing between two or three possible backend setups for a game project. A backend setup is the technical foundation used to build and run the game.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing UI-first with world-first development, or a 2D game with a lightweight 3D preview. It can show the options, decision criteria, recommended choice, reasoning, and cost note, with a detailed record saved when requested.
Why use it?
It helps when more than one technical route seems reasonable and the right choice is unclear. It is not meant for obvious choices or projects whose architecture is already decided.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Comparing UI-first with world-first development, or a 2D game with a lightweight 3D preview. It can show the options, decision criteria, recommended choice, reasoning, and cost note, with a detailed record saved when requested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mike007jd/game-superpowers/gsp-compare-backends
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.

Any agent
npx skills add mike007jd/game-superpowers --skill gsp-compare-backends
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mike007jd/game-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 212 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 $0.00025 $0.00212
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00106
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured 9d ago against content hash c519eb94898b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsp-compare-backends 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.

publish/clawhub/gsp-compare-backends/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Game Compare Backends

Goal

Help choose between backend profiles when the choice is genuinely uncertain.

Important warning

Compare mode usually costs more tokens and time than a single recommended route. Say this explicitly before or while using it.

Good use cases

  • greenfield work where two routes appear plausibly viable
  • UI-first vs world-first uncertainty
  • 2D vs lightweight 3D preview uncertainty

Bad use cases

  • obvious stack choice
  • live-product iteration
  • post-architecture situations where the real blocker is not the backend

Outputs

Follow the gsp-orchestrator output strategy:

  • inline (default): present comparison results in conversation (compared options, criteria, result, why the winner won, token / cost note).
  • minimal or full: update docs/game-studio/backend-decision.md.
Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 30 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A c519eb94898b

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gsp-compare-backends is a skill published in the GitHub repository mike007jd/game-superpowers (12 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 212 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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