terse-mode

terse-mode is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from navikt/copilot. It costs 37 tokens per session (274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing style that keeps responses short while retaining important technical details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want compact explanations, debugging notes, or other technical responses without filler.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary text and output tokens, making technical answers faster to scan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when you want compact explanations, debugging notes, or other technical responses without filler.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/navikt/copilot/terse-mode
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 navikt/copilot --skill terse-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/navikt/copilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for terse-mode

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/navikt/copilot/terse-mode/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/navikt/copilot/terse-mode)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 274 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00027

Measured 5d ago against content hash 24608927791e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terse-mode 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 5d 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.

skills/terse-mode/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Terse Mode

The compact-style rules (drop filler, politeness and hedging; keep code, error strings and technical terms exact; auto-clarity for security warnings, irreversible actions and multi-step sequences) are always applied via output-style.instructions.md. This skill sets the intensity on top of them, and the normal and ultra levels add compression that is not on by default.

Intensity levels

Level Description
lett No filler/hedging. Keep articles + full sentences. Professional but tight
normal Drop articles, fragments OK, short synonyms. Default
ultra Abbreviate prose words (DB/auth/config/req/res/fn/impl), arrows for causality (X → Y)

Default: normal. Switch with: "lett modus", "ultra modus", or "normal modus". Level persists until changed or the session ends.

ultra modus
→ Inline obj-prop → ny ref → re-render. `useMemo`.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago Changed · -47 lines 24608927791e
  2. 9d ago First seen · 72 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 26ec6b397bdd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

terse-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository navikt/copilot (54 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 274 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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