model-selection-advisor

model-selection-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,064 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing a large language model (LLM) for a specific task. It compares options using answer quality, cost, response speed, and practical limits such as privacy or context size.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose, upgrade, or downgrade a model for tasks such as summarising, extraction, or reasoning, and to plan ways to reduce usage costs.
Why use it?
It replaces an unsupported choice between the biggest and cheapest model with a stated trade-off and a default recommendation. It also identifies when changing models may be worthwhile.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-ai plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose, upgrade, or downgrade a model for tasks such as summarising, extraction, or reasoning, and to plan ways to reduce usage costs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/model-selection-advisor
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,449 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill model-selection-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,064 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 $0.00096 $0.01064
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00426
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash bdd421d8cad7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-selection-advisor 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.

plugins/pm-ai/skills/model-selection-advisor/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Model Selection Advisor Skill

The right model is rarely "the biggest one" or "the cheapest one" — it's the smallest model that clears the task's quality bar within its latency and cost budget, with a path to escalate the hard cases. This skill makes that trade-off explicit and defensible, and ties it to an eval so the choice is measured, not vibes.

Working from a brief

Given "what model should I use for summarising support tickets?", deliver a concrete recommendation anyway — infer the task's difficulty, volume, and latency sensitivity, label the assumptions, and recommend. Never hand back "it depends" with no pick; give a default and the condition under which you'd change it.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided (else infer and label):

  • The task — what the model does, and an example input/output. How hard is it (extraction vs. reasoning vs. open-ended)?
  • Quality bar — what "good enough" means, and the cost of a wrong answer.
  • Volume & latency — requests/day and how fast a response must come back (interactive vs. batch).
  • Constraints — budget, context-length needs, tool use, privacy/region, and whether outputs must be reproducible.

Output Format

Model Recommendation: [task]

1. Decision criteria — the 3–5 factors that actually decide it here, ranked (e.g. reasoning depth > latency > cost), with why.

2. Option comparison — the realistic candidates scored against the criteria. Keep it provider-agnostic in method; name a default family (e.g. the Claude family — a small/fast tier, a balanced tier, a frontier tier) and reason by tier, not a single hardcoded model, so the advice survives model releases.

Option (tier) Quality on this task Latency Relative cost Fit
Small/fast clears bar for easy cases low $ default for the bulk
Balanced clears bar for most cases med $$ when small misses
Frontier clears the hardest cases higher $$$ escalation / eval judge

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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 · 79 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A bdd421d8cad7

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model-selection-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,449 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,064 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-12.

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