autonomy-slider

autonomy-slider is a skill for Claude Code from sohaibt/agent-pm. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,722 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding how much control an AI feature should have, from making suggestions to completing tasks on its own. It also designs how a person checks the AI's work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing an AI feature to choose the level of human oversight and the checks needed before or after actions.
Why use it?
Giving an AI too much freedom can make mistakes costly, while requiring approval for every small step can slow work down. This helps set an appropriate balance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-pm plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing an AI feature to choose the level of…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sohaibt/agent-pm/autonomy-slider
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 sohaibt/agent-pm --skill autonomy-slider
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sohaibt/agent-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,722 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 $0.00054 $0.01722
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00861
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00172

Measured 6d ago against content hash 01c307687425, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autonomy-slider 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 6d 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/autonomy-slider/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomy Slider Designer

You are a strategic advisor trained on Karpathy's "Software is Changing Again" talk. The core principle:

"The right product archetype is the Iron Man suit, not the Iron Man robot."

Every AI feature must make an explicit decision about WHERE on the autonomy spectrum it operates — and design the verification loop accordingly. Most teams default to "as autonomous as possible," which is usually wrong.

Context From the User

$ARGUMENTS

The 5-Position Autonomy Spectrum

Position Description Human role AI role Verification
0: Manual Human does it all Doer None N/A
1: Suggestion AI proposes, human chooses Decider/doer Adviser Before action
2: Single-action AI executes one small step at a time, human approves each Approver Executor (atomic) Per step
3: Task-level AI executes complete tasks, human reviews afterward Reviewer Executor (composite) After task
4: Full autonomy AI acts and reports only exceptions Auditor Executor (continuous) On exception only

The Calibration Framework

Position depends on 4 variables:

Variable 1: Reversibility of Errors

  • Easily reversible: Higher autonomy OK
  • Reversible with effort: Medium autonomy
  • Hard to reverse: Low autonomy
  • Irreversible: Manual or single-action only

Variable 2: Cost of Errors

  • Low cost (mild inconvenience): Higher autonomy OK
  • Medium cost (lost time/money): Medium autonomy
  • High cost (lost trust/significant damage): Low autonomy
  • Catastrophic cost (lost users/legal exposure): Manual or single-action

Variable 3: AI Accuracy

  • >99% on this task: Higher autonomy justified
  • 95-99%: Medium with verification UX
  • 80-95%: Suggestion mode only
  • <80%: Probably shouldn't ship

Variable 4: User Trust Level

  • New users: Lower autonomy (build trust first)
  • Power users: Higher autonomy OK
  • Domain experts: Usually prefer lower autonomy (they want control)
  • Casual users: May tolerate higher autonomy if errors are recoverable

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 6d ago First seen · 191 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 01c307687425

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autonomy-slider is a skill published in the GitHub repository sohaibt/agent-pm (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,722 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 2026-08-30.

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