should-i-abstract

should-i-abstract is a skill for Claude Code from oroddlokken/slop. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,468 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A focused review of whether code should share repeated logic or keep separate implementations. DRY means “don’t repeat yourself,” but excessive sharing can create abstractions that are harder to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Deciding when duplicated knowledge belongs in a shared abstraction, when code should be split apart, and when it should remain unchanged.
Why use it?
It helps avoid both needless duplication and abstractions that make simple code more complicated.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Deciding when duplicated knowledge belongs in a shared abstraction, when code should be split apart, and when it should remain unchanged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oroddlokken/slop/should-i-abstract
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 oroddlokken/slop --skill should-i-abstract
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oroddlokken/slop

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,468 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 unknown 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 $0.00063 $0.01468
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00734
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00147

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1dac5029c255, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

should-i-abstract 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.

should-i-abstract/SKILL.md · 101 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 101 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 1dac5029c255

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should-i-abstract is a skill published in the GitHub repository oroddlokken/slop (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), with no licence file. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,468 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.