kaizen

kaizen is a skill for Claude Code from psanders/psstack. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,459 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A daily codebase review for finding one worthwhile improvement. It examines the whole repository using set criteria, ranks possible changes, and applies one after approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a daily 1%-better review, to inspect a repository for improvement opportunities, choose the highest-value candidate, and apply it after approval.
Why use it?
It helps turn continuous improvement into a focused routine instead of an open-ended list of possible tasks. Approval is required before the selected change is applied.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ps plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for a daily 1%-better review, to inspect a repository for improvement opportunities, choose the highest-value candidate, and apply it after approval.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/psanders/psstack/kaizen
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 psanders/psstack --skill kaizen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/psanders/psstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 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 kaizen

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/psanders/psstack/kaizen/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/psanders/psstack/kaizen)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/psanders/psstack/kaizen"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/psanders/psstack/kaizen/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for kaizen

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/psanders/psstack/kaizen"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/psanders/psstack/kaizen.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,459 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 $0.00058 $0.01459
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00584
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00146

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 919d70f20088, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kaizen 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.

plugins/ps/skills/kaizen/SKILL.md · 120 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

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. 1mo ago First seen · 120 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 919d70f20088

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kaizen is a skill published in the GitHub repository psanders/psstack (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,459 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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