ooda

ooda is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from neurofoo/agent-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (838 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making framework based on the OODA loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. It is meant for complex decisions, unclear situations, and problems where jumping straight to a solution may be risky.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a difficult decision, diagnose a problem, compare at least three possible approaches, and choose an action based on the available evidence.
Why use it?
It separates gathering facts from interpreting them and choosing an action, helping expose unknowns, assumptions, risks, and competing options.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the thinking-frameworks plugin — 8 skills, 8 commands shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neurofoo/agent-skills/ooda
Any agent
npx skills add neurofoo/agent-skills --skill ooda
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install thinking-frameworks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 commands.

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README.md
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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 838 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00838
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00084

Measured 6d ago against content hash a2eeeae14487, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ooda 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 6d 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.

ooda/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OODA Loop Analysis

Run a complete OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Execute) on the problem or decision provided.

Instructions

Work through each phase sequentially. Be thorough but concise.

Phase 1: OBSERVE

Gather facts before analyzing. Ask: "What is actually happening?"

Output:

  • Current State: Facts only, no interpretation
  • Signals: What prompted this inquiry
  • Scope: Boundaries of the situation
  • Constraints: Resources, time, rules, dependencies
  • Unknowns: Information gaps to acknowledge

Phase 2: ORIENT

Analyze and build understanding. Ask: "Why is this happening?"

Output:

  • Root Cause Analysis: Underlying drivers, not just symptoms
  • Mental Models: Frameworks that apply (first principles, inversion, second-order effects, etc.)
  • Patterns: Similar situations and their outcomes
  • Stakeholder Views: How different parties see this
  • Assumptions: What we're taking for granted
  • Biases: Cognitive traps to watch for

Phase 3: DECIDE

Choose from viable options. Ask: "What's the best approach?"

Output:

  • Options (minimum 3):
    • Option A — Pros / Cons / Risk level
    • Option B — Pros / Cons / Risk level
    • Option C — Pros / Cons / Risk level
  • Recommendation: Selected approach with rationale
  • Success Criteria: How we'll know it worked
  • Contingency: Fallback if primary approach fails

Phase 4: EXECUTE

Plan implementation with verification. Ask: "How do we act and confirm?"

Output:

  • Action Steps: Ordered, concrete steps
  • Verification Points: How to check progress at each stage
  • Timeline: Realistic schedule
  • First Action: The immediate next step

Feedback Loop

End with:

  • Key Risks: What could derail this
  • Review Trigger: When to reassess (time or event based)

Format

Use clear headers for each phase. Be direct and actionable. Avoid fluff.

Examples

Business: Product Launch Timing

Context: Feature 85% complete, competitor launching similar feature next month.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 6d ago First seen · 93 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A a2eeeae14487

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ooda is a skill published in the GitHub repository neurofoo/agent-skills (111 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 838 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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