gsd-mode-selector

gsd-mode-selector is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,089 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-routing guide for GSD, a workflow system with three commands for different levels of coding work. It chooses the command that matches the task's size and risk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you describe a coding task in everyday language without choosing a GSD command. It decides between a fast fix, a quick change, or a full planned phase.
Why use it?
It prevents small changes from going through an unnecessarily large process, while helping larger or riskier work get enough planning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when you describe a coding task in everyday language without choosing a GSD command. It decides between a fast fix, a quick change, or a full planned phase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit/gsd-mode-selector
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 sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit --skill gsd-mode-selector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,089 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 $0.00056 $0.01089
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00109

Measured 7d ago against content hash 30d44689e141, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsd-mode-selector 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.

templates/base/skills/gsd-mode-selector/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GSD Mode Selector

Why this skill exists

GSD has three modes with 100× cost difference. Wrong mode for task type = wasted money or insufficient quality. This skill picks the right one based on what user actually wants.

When this skill activates

  • User says: "fix", "add", "change", "implement", "do", "make"
  • User describes work without specifying GSD command
  • Before any /gsd-* invocation when scope unclear

Decision tree

                User describes task
                        │
                        ▼
              Is it trivial single-fix?
                  (typo, 1 line, comment)
                  /  \
                YES   NO
                 │    │
                 ▼    ▼
           /gsd-fast   Is scope < 100 LOC?
                       AND single-concern?
                       AND no security implication?
                       AND no breaking change?
                          /  \
                       YES   NO
                        │    │
                        ▼    ▼
                  /gsd-quick   Is scope architectural?
                               OR multi-file?
                               OR security-relevant?
                               OR breaking change?
                                  /  \
                               YES   NO
                                │    │
                                ▼    ▼
                       /gsd-plan-phase   /gsd-quick
                       + /council if
                       auth/payments

Concrete examples

User says Mode Why
"поправь опечатку" /gsd-fast Trivial, single fix
"добавь тест для функции X" /gsd-quick Small, single concern
"обнови README" /gsd-fast Doc update
"поправь баг в auth.js" /gsd-quick (small bug) or /gsd-plan-phase (security) Depends
"добавь endpoint для users" /gsd-quick Single concern, <100 LOC
"реализуй OAuth" /gsd-plan-phase + /council Security + multi-file
"добавь Stripe billing" /gsd-plan-phase + /council Payments + breaking
"переделай схему БД" /gsd-plan-phase + /council Migration + breaking
"рефакторинг 5 файлов" /gsd-plan-phase Multi-file
"добавь логирование" /gsd-quick Single concern
"новая фича: notifications" /gsd-plan-phase New feature scope

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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 · 112 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 30d44689e141

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gsd-mode-selector is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,089 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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