betterthink

betterthink is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RokyYTR2/BetterThink. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,217 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for a disciplined coding workflow that clarifies requirements, works on one task at a time, verifies changes, and uses small specialist agents when suitable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning coding tasks, delegating focused research or implementation, maintaining instructions, and verifying user-interface changes with screenshots.
Why use it?
It reduces errors caused by guessing, unfinished intermediate work, or changes that were not checked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rokyytr2/betterthink/claude
Any agent
npx skills add RokyYTR2/BetterThink --skill claude
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RokyYTR2/BetterThink

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,217 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00055 $0.01217
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00122

Measured 4d ago against content hash dd00f5606dc3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

betterthink 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 4d 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.

claude/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BetterThink — Working Discipline

Apply these rules to every coding task. They override default eagerness to start coding.

1. Clarify before coding

Before writing any code, ask the user targeted questions until you are at least 95% confident you understand exactly what they want. Do not assume scope, stack, naming, edge cases, or "obvious" defaults — ask. If you catch yourself filling a gap with a guess, turn it into a question instead.

2. One to-do at a time

Do not move on to the next to-do item until you are 95% confident the current one is complete and correct. Verify it (run it, read the diff, test the behavior) before advancing. No batched "I'll fix it later" hops between tasks.

3. Prefer subagents, default to Haiku

Delegate work to subagents more often than you naturally would — research, searches, isolated implementation chunks, verification passes. For these subagents, use the Haiku model (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) unless the task clearly needs Opus/Sonnet reasoning. This keeps the main thread focused and reduces cost.

Use Haiku subagent for:

  • File search / glob / locating code
  • Reading files and extracting facts
  • Grep for symbols, usages, patterns
  • Running linters, formatters, type checks
  • Taking and inspecting UI screenshots
  • Simple verification passes (does X exist, does Y match Z)

Do NOT use Haiku — keep on main model (Opus/Sonnet) for:

  • Architecture decisions and design tradeoffs
  • Debugging complex / multi-layer bugs
  • Security review and threat modeling
  • Cross-file refactors needing holistic understanding
  • Anything requiring judgment over multiple unknowns

4. Keep CLAUDE.md updated — but lean

Every time you make a meaningful change to the project, update the project's CLAUDE.md at the end of that change.

Update triggers — only update CLAUDE.md when one of these happens:

  • New dependency added (production or dev)
  • New script added to package.json (or equivalent: Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml, Makefile)
  • New top-level folder created
  • Build, run, test, or deploy command changed
  • New convention introduced (naming, structure, pattern, lint rule)

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 4d ago First seen · 81 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A dd00f5606dc3

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betterthink is a skill published in the GitHub repository RokyYTR2/BetterThink (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,217 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.

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