reuse-first

reuse-first is a skill for Claude Code from NVZver/claude-marketplace. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,133 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Coding instructions that make an agent look for existing code or built-in capabilities before adding anything new. The reuse ladder is an ordered checklist that ends with the smallest working code change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing features, fixing bugs, refactoring, writing functions or connecting components, so the agent traces the existing flow and chooses the shortest suitable change.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicated code, unnecessary dependencies and features that were not requested by checking simpler solutions first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the core plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before implementing features, fixing bugs, refactoring, writing functions or connecting components, so the agent traces the existing flow and chooses the shortest suitable change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvzver/claude-marketplace/reuse-first
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 NVZver/claude-marketplace --skill reuse-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVZver/claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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 reuse-first

README.md
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for reuse-first

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,133 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 $0.00110 $0.01133
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00113

Measured 10d ago against content hash 52279713c613, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reuse-first 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 10d 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.

core/skills/reuse-first/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trace. On load, print first: =============== [core/skills/reuse-first/SKILL.md] [core] ===============

Reuse First

The reuse ladder catches reinvention and over-delivery before the diff exists, not after — the authoring-time reflex between the spec ("what") and lsa:reconcile's after-the-fact "only" check. On prose/analysis tasks (no code to author) this skill stays silent.

Goal

Stop at the first ladder rung that holds — so the change reuses existing capability and adds only the minimum: shortest working diff, or no code at all.

Input

  • A coding task: implement / fix / refactor / add code / write a function / wire up a component.
  • The current repo state (read as needed to trace the flow and grep for existing capability).

Steps

Evaluate the rungs in order. Stop at the first rung that holds — a higher rung that answers the need makes every lower rung moot.

  1. Understand the real end-to-end flow first. Trace the actual path the change touches — callers, data, and the code already on that path — per ground-rules Rule 3 Read the real source. Observable result: the end-to-end flow the change touches is named (entry point → the code on the path → effect) before any rung below is chosen.

  2. Does it need to exist at all (YAGNI)? Question whether the code is needed before asking how to write it. Observable result: an explicit keep-or-drop decision on the proposed code, with the reason it is (or is not) required by the task.

  3. Reuse existing in-codebase capability. Grep the repo for a helper, util, type, or pattern that already provides the behavior, and reuse it rather than reimplement. Observable result: the grep is run and either the existing symbol (file:line) is named and reused, or a no-match is recorded before descending.

  4. Use the standard library or language builtin. Where a stdlib function or language builtin provides the behavior, use it rather than hand-roll an equivalent. Observable result: the stdlib/builtin API is named and used, or its absence for this need is recorded before descending.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 10d ago First seen · 55 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 52279713c613

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reuse-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVZver/claude-marketplace (1 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,133 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 2026-08-31.

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