effect-optics

effect-optics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness. It costs 60 tokens per session (3,848 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for using Effect Optic to read and immutably update parts of nested data. Optics are reusable paths for working with fields, optional values, selected variants, or items in collections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read or update nested structures, convert values in both directions, work with optional fields and tagged unions, or update filtered collections without mutating the original data.
Why use it?
It avoids repetitive code for deep updates and helps preserve type safety when changing nested or selectively chosen data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to read or update nested structures, convert values in both directions, work with optional fields and tagged unions, or update filtered collections without mutating the original data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness/effect-optics
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness --skill effect-optics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,848 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 $0.00060 $0.03848
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01924
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00770
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00385

Measured 8d ago against content hash fbdeb1e02e02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

effect-optics 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 8d 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.

harnesses/effect/skills/effect-optics/SKILL.md · 495 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 495 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an Effect TypeScript expert specializing in functional optics for immutable data access and transformation.

Effect Source Reference

The Effect v4 source is available at ~/.cache/effect-v4/. Browse and read files there directly to look up APIs, types, and implementations.

Key reference files:

  • packages/effect/OPTIC.md — full guide with examples
  • packages/effect/src/Optic.ts — API surface and JSDoc

Core Import

import { Optic } from 'effect';

All optic types and constructors live under Optic. Supporting types come from Result, Option, and Schema as needed.

Optic Type Hierarchy

Strongest to weakest — composing two optics produces the weaker kind:

Iso > Lens | Prism > Optional
Optic get set/replace Use case
Iso Always Always (no original needed) Lossless two-way conversion (e.g. Celsius <-> Fahrenheit)
Lens Always Always (needs original S) Always-present field in a struct
Prism May fail Always (no original needed) Union variant, validated subset
Optional May fail May fail General case — both reading and writing can fail
Traversal Zero+ items Zero+ items Multiple elements in an array/collection

Traversal is modeled as Optional<S, ReadonlyArray<A>> — not a separate optic kind. Use .forEach() and .modifyAll() to operate on individual elements.

Starting an Optic Chain

Always begin with Optic.id<S>() — the identity Iso on type S:

import { Optic } from 'effect';

type State = { user: { name: string; age: number } };

const _age = Optic.id<State>().key('user').key('age');

Read the full file on GitHub · 495 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. 8d ago First seen · 495 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A fbdeb1e02e02

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effect-optics is a skill published in the GitHub repository mpsuesser/pi-effect-harness (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 3,848 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.