betterthink

betterthink is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RokyYTR2/BetterThink. It costs 74 tokens per session (753 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding workflow that reduces uncertainty before editing, finishes and checks one task at a time, keeps project instructions current, and visually checks user interfaces on different screen sizes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when implementing features or fixes that need focused scope, explicit assumptions, verification, and checks on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Why use it?
It helps prevent guessed requirements, unfinished changes, scattered edits, and unnoticed layout problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when implementing features or fixes that need focused scope, explicit assumptions, verification, and checks on mobile, tablet, and desktop.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rokyytr2/betterthink/copilot
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 RokyYTR2/BetterThink --skill copilot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RokyYTR2/BetterThink

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 753 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 $0.00074 $0.00753
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00301
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00075

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d2c8caa62092, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

copilot/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BetterThink

Apply this skill at the start of a coding task when correctness and discipline matter more than speed.

Clarify Before Editing

  • Drive uncertainty down before writing code.
  • Ask focused questions when scope, behavior, stack, naming, or edge cases are materially ambiguous.
  • If a small assumption is safe and non-destructive, state it explicitly and proceed.
  • Do not silently fill important gaps with guesses. Target: reach high confidence in the requested outcome before editing.

Finish One Slice Before Starting The Next

  • Work on one concrete to-do at a time.
  • Verify the current slice before moving on: read the diff, run the relevant test or command, or inspect the behavior directly.
  • Do not stack partially finished fixes with a plan to circle back later unless the task genuinely requires it. Target: treat "probably done" as not done.

Stay On The Critical Path

Copilot works inline and in chat as a single assistant. Keep edits focused and sequential rather than scattering half-finished changes across files.

  • Scope each change to a clear file or module boundary.
  • Read the surrounding code and its dependencies before editing.
  • Reference only the files the current slice needs; do not pull broad, unrelated context.

Keep Project Instructions Lean

At the end of a meaningful change, update the project's Copilot instructions file — .github/copilot-instructions.md. Update it only when one of these happens:

  • Add a new dependency
  • Add a new script or command entry point
  • Create a new top-level folder
  • Change build, run, test, or deploy commands
  • Introduce a new project convention or pattern worth preserving Rules:
  • Use the existing .github/copilot-instructions.md; create it only when the repo does not yet have one or the user asks.
  • Record durable information only: architecture, conventions, commands, gotchas, and non-obvious decisions.
  • Skip routine bug fixes, refactors, and task logs.
  • Keep the file compact. If it starts growing into long-form documentation, move detail into a supplementary doc and leave one pointer line in the instructions file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 1mo ago First seen · 54 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A d2c8caa62092

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betterthink is a skill published in the GitHub repository RokyYTR2/BetterThink (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 753 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 2026-08-31.

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