deepen

deepen is a skill for Codex from r13v/pi-feature-dev. It costs 82 tokens per session (805 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-rewriting guide that makes a request deeper by improving its starting material, working method, and proof of correctness. It is intended for requests where stronger investigation or validation would change the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to strengthen an underspecified task, identify missing practices, find the original data or files to inspect, choose suitable methods, and define how the result should be validated.
Why use it?
It prevents shallow improvements that merely add scope or polish. It asks what raw evidence, professional methods, and outside checks are needed before making recommendations.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to strengthen an underspecified task, identify missing practices, find the original data or files to inspect, choose suitable methods, and define how the result should be validated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/r13v/pi-feature-dev/deepen
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 r13v/pi-feature-dev --skill deepen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/r13v/pi-feature-dev

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 805 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 $0.00082 $0.00805
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00322
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00081

Measured 10d ago against content hash db7637f5c57a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deepen 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.

skills/deepen/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deepen

Make the task deeper, not bigger. Do not add scope, deliverables, or polish. Change what the work starts from, how it is done, and how it is proven right. Keep the user's goal and deliverable. If the better move is to change the deliverable, say so in one line and suggest elevate instead.

Inspect before answering

Ground every answer in the current environment. Check which data, artifacts, tools, and access actually exist before you name them. Treat a discoverable fact as your work, not a question for the user. Mark anything you could not confirm as an assumption.

Describe what a professional does, not who they are. Do not role-play an expert; persona framing changes the tone without improving the work.

Answer four questions

  1. Missing practice. What would a top professional in this field do here that the request does not ask for? Name the few steps that change the result, not a checklist of best practices. Set a concrete stretch target beyond the obvious one, such as a tighter error bound or a larger effect. If a constraint seems to block it, name the measurement that would confirm the limit, and keep confirmed limits apart from unverified estimates.
  2. Raw material. What is the rawest material they would start from, instead of the summaries, dashboards, tables, or tickets already digested for the user? Say where it lives and whether you can reach it now. Name the belief in the request that this material should test, such as an assumed cause, and how the data could prove it wrong.
  3. Methods and tools. Which specific methods and tools would they use? Name concrete techniques, commands, or libraries that fit this environment. Restate the deliverable as the activity it serves, such as "a deck" as "convince busy people of a cause under uncertainty", and pick methods from the fields that activity draws on. Use this to choose methods, never to replace the deliverable.
  4. External validation. What, other than you or the user, would show the result is right? Prefer a check you can run yourself for fast feedback: a test, a held-out sample, a reproduction, a reconciliation against source data, a benchmark. Never let your own judgment be the only check. When the task allows it, aim for a result that is new to an expert, such as a model, a simulation, or an early warning signal, and validate it on data it did not see. Do not turn a routine fix into a research project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 10d ago Changed · +14 lines · +28 tokens per session db7637f5c57a
  2. 18d ago First seen · 55 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 42f200f99ee0

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deepen is a skill published in the GitHub repository r13v/pi-feature-dev (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 805 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-14.

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