meter-waste

meter-waste is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus. It costs 16 tokens per session (386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A report that examines CocoMeter records for repeated context rebuilding, failed loops, off-target work, and stale information reloads.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding likely causes of wasted context, suggesting prevention steps, and proposing reviewable working rules based on the available evidence.
Why use it?
It helps identify where sessions spend effort without producing useful progress, while distinguishing measured waste from estimates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for finding likely causes of wasted context, suggesting prevention steps, and proposing reviewable working rules based on the available evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/snowflake-labs/cocoplus/meter-waste
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 Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus --skill meter-waste
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus

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.

agentmods badge for meter-waste

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for meter-waste

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 386 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 $0.00016 $0.00386
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00039

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5e7ca59a7152, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meter-waste 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 5d 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.

.cortex/skills/cocometer/meter-waste.skill.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Your objective is to implement $meter waste [--window <N>] [--run-id <id>].

Before proceeding, verify that .cocoplus/ exists. If not, output: "CocoPlus not initialized in this directory. Run $pod init to begin." Then stop.

Contract

Read recent session, meter, and reconciliation artifacts. Estimate avoidable context reconstruction, repeated failed loops, off-brief execution, and stale-context reloads. Use transcript-derived reconciliation when present; otherwise label the result as estimate-only.

Output:

  • Waste window and source files
  • Waste categories and approximate token share
  • Highest-confidence cause
  • Suggested prevention
  • Candidate wisdom or style rule, if evidence is strong

Do not write directly to do-not-use.md. If a rejected approach seems warranted, append a review candidate to .cocoplus/wisdom/review-queue.md so the operator can accept it with $wisdom reject.

Exit Criteria

  • The report separates verified waste from estimated waste.
  • Off-brief and loop waste are identified when evidence exists.
  • Recommendations prefer correctness before token savings.
  • Negative-memory candidates remain review-only until explicitly accepted.

Anti-Rationalization

Shortcut / Temptation Why It Fails
Treat the skill as complete because the file exists Skill contracts must describe observable behavior and verification, not just command names.
Skip artifact and safety checks for a small command Small commands still mutate state or guide execution; preserve the same gates.
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. 5d ago First seen · 43 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 5e7ca59a7152

Subscribe to this mod's changes

meter-waste is a skill published in the GitHub repository Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus (720 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 386 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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