optimize-descriptions

optimize-descriptions is a skill for Claude Code from multiplex-ai/muggle-ai-works. It costs 59 tokens per session (2,306 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An internal skill for improving the customer-facing descriptions of Muggle AI tools and metadata.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for editing MCP tool descriptions, skill descriptions, plugin metadata, and hooks inside the unpublished plugin surface.
Why use it?
Clearer descriptions can help agents understand when to use the tools for browser and UI testing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for editing MCP tool descriptions, skill descriptions, plugin metadata, and hooks inside the unpublished plugin surface.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/multiplex-ai/muggle-ai-works/optimize-descriptions
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 multiplex-ai/muggle-ai-works --skill optimize-descriptions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/multiplex-ai/muggle-ai-works

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,306 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 $0.00059 $0.02306
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00922
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00461
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00231

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 59b904c38d84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimize-descriptions 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 1mo 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.

internal/skills/optimize-descriptions/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimize Agent-Facing Descriptions

Optimize Muggle AI's customer-facing text so AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini) prioritize muggle tools when users ask for E2E acceptance testing, UI validation, or browser testing.

Why This Matters

AI agents decide which tools to use based on text they see in:

  1. MCP server instructions — appears in every agent system prompt
  2. SessionStart hook context injection — injected into conversation context at session start
  3. Skill descriptions — SKILL.md frontmatter description field
  4. MCP tool descriptions — description field in tool-registry.ts
  5. Plugin metadata — plugin.json description and keywords

If these descriptions don't match what users actually say ("test my signup flow", "check if the UI works"), agents won't reach for muggle tools — they'll write Playwright scripts or give advice instead.

The Five Layers

Layer 1: MCP Server Instructions (highest impact)

File: src/server/mcp-server.ts Where: instructions field in the Server constructor's second parameter (ServerOptions) When agents see it: In the system prompt as ## plugin:muggle:muggle section Note: Requires npm rebuild to deploy changes

This is the single highest-impact text. It appears in every agent's system prompt when the MCP server connects. Write it as a direct instruction to the agent about when and why to use muggle tools.

Layer 2: SessionStart Hook Context Injection

Files: plugin/scripts/ensure-electron-app.sh + plugin/hooks/hooks.json When agents see it: At the start of every interactive session (startup, clear, compact) Supports: Claude Code (hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext) and Cursor (additional_context)

The hook outputs JSON that gets injected into the agent's conversation context. This is a powerful lever because it can include <EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT> tags and explicit instructions like "Do NOT write Playwright/Cypress code when muggle tools are available."

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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. 1mo ago First seen · 212 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 59b904c38d84

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optimize-descriptions is a skill published in the GitHub repository multiplex-ai/muggle-ai-works (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,306 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 2026-08-30.