ai-use-case-triage

ai-use-case-triage is a skill for Claude Code from sananthanarayan/skilldrop. It costs 119 tokens per session (1,316 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for sorting proposed AI projects into a ranked portfolio using value, practicality, and risk. It treats each idea as a specific work process for a person, rather than as a vague technology project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to score ideas, show the scoring weights, recommend a small first trial, and create a not-yet list with conditions for reconsideration.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose what to try first when they have more ideas than time. It also records which ideas should wait and what evidence could make them worth pursuing later.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skilldrop plugin — 51 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to score ideas, show the scoring weights, recommend a small first trial, and create a not-yet list with conditions for reconsideration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/ai-use-case-triage
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 sananthanarayan/skilldrop --skill ai-use-case-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sananthanarayan/skilldrop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skilldrop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,316 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 $0.00119 $0.01316
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00658
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00132

Measured 10d ago against content hash e8e7a587c660, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-use-case-triage 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/ai-use-case-triage/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ai-use-case-triage

Most AI adoption stalls not from lack of ideas but from too many, all sounding equally promising. This produces a ranked portfolio with rejections: what to do first, what to hold, and the condition that would move a held item onto the list.

A triage that promotes everything has triaged nothing. The not-yet list is the deliverable's spine.

How to respond

  1. Inventory the candidates. From whatever the user brought — a brainstorm, a backlog, interview notes. Each candidate is stated as a workflow and a person, not a technology: ✅ "Support agents drafting first-response replies" — ❌ "Use LLMs in support." If a candidate is a technology looking for a job, say so and either recast it or drop it.

  2. Score each on three axes, 1–5, and show the weights. Default weights: value 40 · feasibility 35 · risk 25. State them, and restate them if the user's context justifies different ones (a regulated environment legitimately weights risk higher). Hidden weights make a ranking an opinion.

    • Value — time recovered, quality lifted, or revenue/cost moved. Quantify where the input allows; mark directional where it doesn't. Never invent a number.
    • Feasibility — is the input data reachable, is the output checkable, does the workflow already have a review step? A task whose output nobody can verify is not feasible, however easy the prompt.
    • Risk — blast radius if the output is wrong and someone acts on it. Score the consequence, not the technology's reputation.
  3. Rank, then sanity-check the top. The highest score wins only if its failure is survivable and visible. A high-value, high-risk item where a wrong answer reaches a customer unreviewed is not a first slice, whatever the arithmetic says — demote it and say why.

  4. Name the first slice, and what it proves. One use case, with the observable that would confirm or kill the thesis and a time box. ✅ "Draft first-response replies for the top 3 ticket categories; the thesis dies if agents edit more than half the draft body after 4 weeks." A first slice with no kill condition is a pilot that runs forever.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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 First seen · 60 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A e8e7a587c660

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ai-use-case-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository sananthanarayan/skilldrop (2 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,316 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.