solve

solve is a skill for Claude Code from sequenzia/agent-alchemy. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,600 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided solver for competitive-programming and LeetCode-style problems, with explanations, step-by-step reasoning, and checked Python solutions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need help understanding or solving an algorithm problem, including its input and output rules, edge cases, and solution code.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear coding challenge into a structured process covering the input, constraints, approach, implementation, and examples.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agent-alchemy-cs-tools plugin — 8 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need help understanding or solving an algorithm problem, including its input and output rules, edge cases, and solution code.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add sequenzia/agent-alchemy
Claude Code
/plugin install agent-alchemy-cs-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-alchemy-cs-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,600 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 $0.00063 $0.01600
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00640
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00160

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fe7a65f2abbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

solve 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.

claude/cs-tools/skills/solve/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Programming Problem Solver

Solve competitive programming and LeetCode-style problems with clear educational explanations, step-by-step walkthroughs, and verified Python solutions.

CRITICAL: Complete ALL 4 phases. Do not stop after classification or skip the agent.

Phase 1: Parse Input

Goal: Extract and understand the problem statement.

If $ARGUMENTS is provided, parse the problem statement from it. Extract:

  • Problem description and objective
  • Input/output format
  • Constraints (N, M, value ranges)
  • Example test cases with expected outputs
  • Any special conditions (modular arithmetic, multiple test cases, interactive)

If $ARGUMENTS is empty or unclear, use AskUserQuestion to request the problem:

AskUserQuestion:
  question: "Please provide the problem statement. You can paste the full text, describe it in your own words, or provide a link."
  options:
    - label: "Paste problem text"
      description: "Paste the full problem statement including constraints and examples"
    - label: "Describe the problem"
      description: "Describe what the problem asks in your own words"

If the problem statement is ambiguous or missing key information (constraints, examples), ask for clarification before proceeding.

Phase 2: Classify Problem

Goal: Determine the algorithmic category, technique, and difficulty.

Analyze the problem to determine:

2.1 Primary Category

Match to one of:

  • Dynamic Programming — optimization over subsequences, counting ways, overlapping subproblems
  • Graph Algorithms — connectivity, shortest paths, traversal, network problems
  • Search and Optimization — binary search, two pointers, greedy, interval problems
  • Data Structures — specialized structures needed (heap, trie, segment tree)
  • Math and Combinatorics — number theory, counting, modular arithmetic, game theory
  • String Algorithms — pattern matching, palindromes, hashing

2.2 Sub-pattern

Identify the specific technique within the category (e.g., "0/1 Knapsack", "Dijkstra", "Sliding Window").

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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 · 165 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A fe7a65f2abbb

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solve is a skill published in the GitHub repository sequenzia/agent-alchemy (45 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,600 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 2026-08-30.

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