minimalism-driven

minimalism-driven is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 44 tokens per session (858 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for writing the smallest complete code change whose purpose and failure behavior are easy to understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or restructuring code, considering abstractions, or deliberately keeping an implementation minimal.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary helpers, wrappers, configuration, dependencies, and unrelated improvements that make code harder to maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-code plugin — 60 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing or restructuring code, considering abstractions, or deliberately keeping an implementation minimal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/minimalism-driven
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill minimalism-driven
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 60 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 minimalism-driven

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/minimalism-driven"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/minimalism-driven.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 858 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00044 $0.00858
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00429
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00086

Measured yesterday against content hash 54682f1082a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

minimalism-driven 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/odin-code/skills/minimalism-driven/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Minimalism driven

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Writing or restructuring code; considering a helper, wrapper, config key, or dependency; or an explicit request for minimal code, DRY code, or no gold-plating.
Authority Reversible local: writes only reversible local edits needed by the ask; rollback is version control or undo. No remote mutation.
Side effect Edit code within the requested scope; do not implement adjacent improvements.
Done Every addition has a concrete reason, intent and failure behavior are obvious, and the resulting scope exactly matches the ask.

Inputs

Supply the requested behavior and the local code surface to change. Supply explicit constraints or acceptance criteria when they exist. Existing nearby implementations and call sites are required evidence for reuse decisions; no additional input is optional if its absence would require guessing behavior.

Procedure

  1. Bound the requested behavior, affected files, and acceptance criteria before editing. If any required behavior cannot be determined from the request or local code, stop rather than invent it. Done when: the behavior, files, and criteria are stated and no unknown remains.
  2. Inspect the affected code and its relevant call sites for an existing implementation or convention that can satisfy the ask; reuse that before creating a second form. Done when: every reuse candidate is identified and the reuse-or-create decision is recorded.
  3. Try deletion first, then modification of existing code. Add new code only when neither can produce the required behavior. Done when: the smallest-form approach is selected and justified.
  4. Before adding a helper, wrapper, config key, dependency, branch, or other surface, state its concrete necessity in one sentence. Omit it if removing it would leave the requested outcome unchanged. Done when: every retained addition has a stated necessity and every rejected addition is omitted.
  5. Keep each retained addition sufficient rather than merely short: use clear names, handle required error paths, and encode or state assumptions where the code otherwise permits a silent gap. Done when: every addition handles its required error paths and states its assumptions.
  6. Make only the bounded local edits. Do not build an adjacent improvement; report it separately only when it materially affects the requested work. Done when: the change set contains only bounded edits and no adjacent improvement.
  7. Verify the changed behavior using the narrowest available check that exercises it, then inspect the final change set. Done when: the check passes, every addition retains concrete necessity, intent and failure behavior remain obvious, and no change lies outside the ask.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday Changed · -12 tokens per session 54682f1082a2
  2. 4d ago First seen · 43 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 51c31e91c568

Subscribe to this mod's changes

minimalism-driven is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 858 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 2026-09-04.

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