moores-law

moores-law is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer. It costs 124 tokens per session (878 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An observation that computing capacity has historically increased while the cost of electronic components has fallen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when considering hardware capacity, cloud computing costs, machine-learning workloads, or features that once required too much processing power.
Why use it?
It provides context for why compute-heavy software became practical and how hardware trends affect cost and feasibility.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when considering hardware capacity, cloud computing costs, machine-learning workloads, or features that once required too much processing power.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/moores-law
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer --skill moores-law
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 878 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 $0.00124 $0.00878
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00088

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1c3f094567bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

moores-law 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 12d 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.

moores-law/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.

Moore's Law

"The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year." — Gordon Moore, 1965

The core idea

Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, observed in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit had been doubling roughly every year (later revised to every two years). He predicted this trend would continue.

For roughly five decades, he was right — with enormous consequences for everything in computing. Processing power roughly doubled every two years, while cost per transistor fell. The smartphone in your pocket is more powerful than the most powerful computer on earth from the early 1980s.

What Moore's Law actually explains

Moore's Law isn't just a trivia fact — it's the engine behind most of what changed in computing since 1965:

  • Software became possible that previously wasn't. 3D graphics, real-time voice recognition, video streaming, machine learning — all were theoretically understood long before hardware made them practical.
  • Cost curves shaped entire industries. Cloud computing works because commodity server hardware became cheap enough that renting compute is economical. The economics of storage, bandwidth, and processing have all followed related curves.
  • Developer productivity improved. Faster hardware meant more tolerant software: higher-level languages, interpreted code, virtual machines — all "wasted" compute that Moore's Law kept providing more of.
  • Planning horizons changed. Companies could plan product roadmaps around hardware that didn't exist yet, because the trajectory was predictable.

Is Moore's Law still active?

This is contested:

The case that it's slowing:

  • Physical limits of silicon are being approached. Transistors are now a few atoms wide.
  • The doubling cadence has stretched from 18 months to 2–3 years for leading-edge chips.
  • Clock speed increases effectively stopped around 2004. Heat dissipation became the wall.

The case that it's continuing in new forms:

  • Multi-core processors, GPUs, TPUs, and specialized AI chips provide performance gains that don't come from raw transistor density.
  • Advanced packaging (chiplets, 3D stacking) continues to increase effective compute density.
  • Cloud scale provides virtually unlimited compute — the relevant metric is price per FLOP, not transistors per chip.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 12d ago First seen · 60 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 1c3f094567bc

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moores-law is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-Artificer-of-Ciphers-LLC/skills-from-the-artificer (4 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 878 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.

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