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the-algorithm

the-algorithm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from the-metafactory/soma. It costs 53 tokens per session (275 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for turning a project's current state into a defined ideal state using small, testable criteria and a staged execution process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or refine verification criteria, choose an effort level, plan the work in seven phases, and check the result against explicit conditions.
Why use it?
It makes substantial builds, refactors, migrations, and design tasks easier to plan and verify by defining what success must look like before implementation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

not rated 8repo changed today A scan 53 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to create or refine verification criteria, choose an effort level, plan the work in seven phases, and check the result against explicit conditions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-metafactory/soma/the-algorithm
View source ↗ the-metafactory/soma
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 the-metafactory/soma --skill the-algorithm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-metafactory/soma

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 275 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 $0.00053 $0.00275
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00110
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00028

Measured today against content hash 7020b0d3c12f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

the-algorithm 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 today.

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.

src/skills/the-algorithm/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

The Algorithm

The Algorithm is Soma's portable execution doctrine. It turns work into a transition from current state to ideal state, captured as a VSA whose criteria are granular, binary, and verifiable.

Prefer the Soma Algorithm harness over freeform execution when it is available. The harness is the deterministic layer; these files are the doctrine and substrate-facing instructions.

Use

  • Start with Workflows/RunAlgorithm.md.
  • Read references/algorithm.md when doctrine detail matters.
  • Pick a card by task shape from the Playbooks section of the working method, when the soma-pstack pack's playbooks skill is installed; name principles from references/principles.md.
  • Treat Claude-specific hooks, voice curls, and Claude Code sub-agents as source history, not portable requirements.

Triggers

  • algorithm
  • ideal state
  • VSA
  • ISC
  • verification criteria
  • current state to ideal state
  • substantial build/design/refactor/migration work
Files

What ships with it

52 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed 7020b0d3c12f
  2. 12d ago Changed · +1 lines a67b5842cd4f
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 29 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 9ad49c3f3d95

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the-algorithm is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-metafactory/soma (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 275 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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