census

census is a skill for Claude Code from mishahanin/heading-os. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,840 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A corpus-counting skill that answers questions by checking every file in a named collection. A corpus is the complete set of files being examined.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for totals, comparisons, and other whole-collection questions, such as finding inactive threads or records missing from another system.
Why use it?
It handles questions whose answers are spread across many files, where searching for a single matching passage is not enough.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for totals, comparisons, and other whole-collection questions, such as finding inactive threads or records missing from another system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mishahanin/heading-os/census
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 mishahanin/heading-os --skill census
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mishahanin/heading-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,840 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00083 $0.01840
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00920
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00184

Measured 9d ago against content hash 28abb2c1ea81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

census 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/census/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/census — aggregation over the corpus

Answer an aggregating question by traversing the corpus, not by retrieving from it.

Why this exists

The step-1 benchmark (2026-08-13) measured the incumbent retrieval path against 15 code-computed truths. On the aggregating class the retrieval ceiling was 0.000. All seven questions scored exactly 0.00. That is not a low score but an unreachable one. The answer sits in no single chunk, so top-K cannot return it at any depth.

/census measured 6 of 7 on the same questions and the same corpus state. Median 0.05 s per answer, against 0.92 s for retrieval.

The one miss is a known wording debt, not a capability gap. agg-09 names a reference list of countries that the traversal never receives. It therefore measures whether the list was guessed. It stays wrong, because the alternative was a program rewritten after the answer was known.

Both numbers live in outputs/operations/census-bench/ in the data overlay.

When NOT to apply

Signal Route to
"what do we know about X", "where did we decide Y" /recall
The corpus scope fits the context window /recall — the engine REFUSES with exit 4
An exact string in a known file Grep
A new note to capture /zk
Advice from the Odin brain /odin
Anything about a person or company outside the workspace /osint

The window refusal is not advice. SRLM (arXiv:2603.15653) reports that a traversal primitive on a corpus that already fits actively hurts, so the engine refuses rather than degrade quietly.

Corpus scopes

Scope What it mounts
threads the business thread registry
crm the CRM contact cards
context the context documents, including the pipeline
auto_memory the auto-memory files and their index
knowledge the knowledge base
outputs produced deliverables

Default scope set: threads, crm, context, auto_memory. Name scopes with repeated --corpus flags; a scope you do not name is not mounted, so the traversal cannot read it at all.

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 167 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 28abb2c1ea81

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census is a skill published in the GitHub repository mishahanin/heading-os (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,840 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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