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.
npx agentmods add skills/nicknisi/ideation/expressnpx skills add nicknisi/ideation --skill expressgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicknisi/ideationWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nicknisi/ideation/express)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nicknisi/ideation/express"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nicknisi/ideation/express.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00129 | $0.00498 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00064 | $0.00249 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00100 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00050 |
Grade A, and why
express 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 4d 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.
What it actually says
Express Ideation
Express is a pre-commit of /ideation's post-interview routing — same interview, same critics, same artifacts (contract-data.json, specs, generator-rendered contract.html + contract.md via --md-output); the only difference is that the express finish is chosen here, up front, instead of at the routing question.
- Clean-tree check — now, before the interview. Run
git status --porcelain. Uncommitted changes would ride along on phase commits, and stopping costs one question here, not a completed interview. Dirty tree → ask: stash/commit first, accept the risk, or abort. A clean tree proceeds silently. - Run ideation. Read and follow
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/ideation/SKILL.mdend to end with the routing question pre-answered to "Approve — express finish" (fold the run-mode question into the approval call, and skip the routing-time clean-tree check — it already ran above). Everything else — branch handling, resume semantics, strict fail-closed execution, completion lines — lives in ideation's Express finish path, the single owner of express semantics. - Scope guard (advisory). For exploratory or unfamiliar work, recommend the full
/ideationflow instead — its evidence-derived routing recommendation makes the same call, with reasons.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 28 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 9c67f5935526
express is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicknisi/ideation (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 498 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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