mastermind

mastermind is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from monoes/monomind. It costs 31 tokens per session (246 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow router for common coding-agent tasks such as design, planning, implementation, review, debugging, research, and memory. It selects the matching procedure and orders the stages for feature work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choose and run workflows for building features, investigating failures, reviewing changes, researching questions, and organizing work.
Why use it?
It gives complex work a defined process instead of letting steps happen in an unclear order. For feature work, it separates design, planning, execution, and review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Choose and run workflows for building features, investigating failures, reviewing changes, researching questions, and organizing work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/monoes/monomind/mastermind
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 monoes/monomind --skill mastermind
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/monoes/monomind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 246 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 $0.00031 $0.00246
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00098
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash 889b4d2783a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mastermind 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.

.agents/skills/mastermind/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Mastermind Router

Load only the workflow that matches the request:

  • mastermind-idea to shape a raw prompt into a stated problem and options.
  • mastermind-design before building a feature — this is a gate, not a suggestion.
  • mastermind-plan before multi-file implementation.
  • mastermind-execute for a written plan.
  • mastermind-review for audits and critiques.
  • mastermind-debug for failures or unexpected behavior.
  • mastermind-research for open questions.
  • mastermind-org for organization lifecycle work.
  • mastermind-memory for persistent knowledge.

For build/feature work, the gates are mandatory and ordered: idea → design → plan → execute → review.

Use Monograph before broad repository search when the platform exposes the Monomind MCP server. Without native skills, run monomind mastermind run <skill> --print and follow the printed procedure. Platform tool mappings are in references/.

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 2d ago First seen · 27 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 889b4d2783a0

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mastermind is a skill published in the GitHub repository monoes/monomind (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 246 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-26.

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