crystallize

crystallize is a skill for Claude Code from rana/skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An editorial review that simplifies project designs and sharpens how they are explained.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide what to simplify, remove, or restructure, while reinforcing the parts that are clear and well-designed.
Why use it?
It identifies unnecessary complexity, dead weight, misplaced material, and uncertain decisions that make a design harder to understand or maintain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the y plugin — 64 skills, 14 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to decide what to simplify, remove, or restructure, while reinforcing the parts that are clear and well-designed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rana/skills/crystallize
View source ↗ rana/skills
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 rana/skills --skill crystallize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rana/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install y, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 64 skills, 14 commands, 8 agents.

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 crystallize

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rana/skills/crystallize"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rana/skills/crystallize.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 493 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 $0.00030 $0.00493
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 7d ago against content hash 30d3a4bc094b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crystallize 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 7d 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/crystallize/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read all project markdown documents to ground in the project's actual state.

Crystallization Review

Apply the editorial knife across two dimensions: structural simplification and communication quality.

Structural Simplification

  1. Would you simplify anything? — What's more complex than it needs to be? What's solving a problem that doesn't exist yet?
  2. Would you remove anything? — What's dead weight? Vestigial decisions? Features that don't earn their keep? Could this be reconstructed from the code and domain knowledge alone — and if so, is it documentation weight masquerading as documentation value?
  3. Would you restructure anything? — What would be clearer reorganized? What's in the wrong document or section?
  4. What are you not enthusiastic about? — Where does the design feel forced, over-engineered, or uncertain? Be honest.
  5. What are you enthusiastic about? — What's working well? What's elegant? Reinforce the strengths.
  6. Is the design crystalline? — Does every element serve a purpose? Can you see through it clearly?

Communication Quality

  1. AI readability — Can a fresh Claude session navigate these documents efficiently? Are identifiers unambiguous? Is structure consistent enough for pattern-matching?
  2. Onboarding — Could a new developer (or a new Claude session) understand the project from docs alone? Where would they get lost?
  3. Staleness — Are there references to things that no longer exist? Outdated state descriptions? Dead links?
  4. Redundancy vs. value — Is the same information in multiple places? Is that useful (different audiences need different formats) or dead weight (documentation that exists only because someone wrote it)?

Focus area: $ARGUMENTS

For every proposal:

  1. What to change and why (the simplification or removal)
  2. What's preserved (nothing valuable is lost)
  3. Where the change belongs

Present as an action list. No changes to files — document only.

Output

Order proposals by complexity reduction impact. State the total count when complete.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 47 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 30d3a4bc094b

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crystallize is a skill published in the GitHub repository rana/skills (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 493 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 2026-08-31.

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