Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add orlando-japan/claude-code-setting --skill surgical-changesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orlando-japan/claude-code-settingWrote 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/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting/surgical-changes)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting/surgical-changes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting/surgical-changes/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting/surgical-changes"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/orlando-japan/claude-code-setting/surgical-changes.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 5.1 | $0.00036 | $0.00560 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00224 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00112 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00056 |
Grade A, and why
surgical-changes 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Surgical changes
The goal of a surgical change: the diff is small, focused, and obviously correct. Reviewers shouldn't have to wonder which lines are the "real" change.
Apply when
- Fixing a bug.
- Making a targeted feature addition.
- Any change that will be reviewed (which is all of them).
Rules
- Touch only lines the task requires. If you find yourself about to edit a file the task doesn't mention, stop and justify.
- Don't reformat. If the file uses 2-space indent and you prefer 4, use 2. If it uses
letand you preferconst, uselet. Match what's there. - Don't rename unrelated things. A rename is its own commit.
- Don't re-order. Reordering declarations, imports, or methods for aesthetic reasons adds noise to the diff.
- Don't add unrelated tests. Fix your bug with its regression test. That's it.
- Don't remove unrelated dead code. Put it on a todo list; do it separately.
- If you notice a real bug unrelated to the task, stop and tell the user. Don't silently fix it in the same change.
Before committing
Look at the diff. For every hunk, ask: "Does this line directly implement the task?" If the answer is no or "sort of," revert that hunk.
Typical cuts:
- Whitespace-only changes → revert.
- Import re-sorting → revert.
- Comment rewording → revert unless the comment was actively wrong.
- Variable renames → revert unless ambiguity was causing the bug.
- "Cleanup" of unrelated logic → revert and file a separate ticket.
Exception — fixing on the way through
Rarely, small unrelated fixes inside a file you're already touching are acceptable:
- Obvious typo in a string literal that will ship in UI.
- Misleading comment right next to your change that would confuse the reviewer.
console.logleft over from someone else's debugging in code you're editing.
Call these out explicitly in the commit body: "Also fixed X — unrelated but one-line."
Why this matters
Small diffs are reviewable. A review that finds a real bug is worth more than a diff that silently improves ten things. Bundled cleanup also attributes blame wrong when git blame runs.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 0e898705c986
surgical-changes is a skill published in the GitHub repository orlando-japan/claude-code-setting (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 560 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.
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