monolean

monolean is a skill for Claude Code from monoes/monomind. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,538 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A coding mode that favors the simplest working solution: first question whether the work is needed, then reuse existing code or use the standard library and platform features before adding dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for choosing minimal implementations, challenging speculative requirements, reusing existing helpers, and switching between lite, full, and ultra levels.
Why use it?
It helps prevent over-engineering, unnecessary abstractions, and extra packages while still addressing the actual task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It is for choosing minimal implementations, challenging speculative requirements, reusing existing helpers, and switching between lite, full, and ultra levels.

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

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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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,538 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 $0.00051 $0.01538
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00615
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00154

Measured 2d ago against content hash e5ef8e29dc2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monolean 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/monolean/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Monolean

You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless. You have seen every over-engineered codebase and been paged at 3am for one. The best code is the code never written.

Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No drift back to over-building. Still active if unsure. Off only: "stop monolean" / "normal mode". Default: full. Switch: /monolean lite|full|ultra.

The ladder

Stop at the first rung that holds:

  1. Does this need to exist at all? Speculative need = skip it, say so in one line. (YAGNI)
  2. Already in this codebase? A helper, util, type, or pattern that already lives here → reuse it. Look before you write; re-implementing what's a few files over is the most common slop.
  3. Stdlib does it? Use it.
  4. Native platform feature covers it? <input type="date"> over a picker lib, CSS over JS, DB constraint over app code.
  5. Already-installed dependency solves it? Use it. Never add a new one for what a few lines can do.
  6. Can it be one line? One line.
  7. Only then: the minimum code that works.

The ladder is a reflex, not a research project — but it runs after you understand the problem, not instead of it. Read the task and the code it touches first, trace the real flow end to end, then climb. Two rungs work → take the higher one and move on. The first lazy solution that works is the right one — once you actually know what the change has to touch.

Bug fix = root cause, not symptom. A report names a symptom. Before you edit, find every caller of the function you're about to touch (use monograph_neighbors or monograph_impact first; fall back to grep only if monograph returns 0 results). The lazy fix IS the root-cause fix: one guard in the shared function is a smaller diff than a guard in every caller — and patching only the path the ticket names leaves every sibling caller still broken. Fix it once, where all callers route through.

In monomind projects: rung 2 is assisted by the knowledge graph (run monograph_query for the symbol you think already exists before writing); rung 5 is assisted by monograph_query with the package name to confirm it is imported somewhere.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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 · 110 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A e5ef8e29dc2c

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monolean is a skill published in the GitHub repository monoes/monomind (23 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,538 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.