reduce-to-facts

reduce-to-facts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tmusser/context-to-action-skills. It costs 121 tokens per session (1,896 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning long or confusing workplace material into a short list of verified facts, unknowns, and useful implications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with Slack threads, emails, meeting transcripts, policy documents, research notes, and customer escalations before replying, deciding, or taking action.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making decisions or replying based on missing, contradictory, or misunderstood context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it with Slack threads, emails, meeting transcripts, policy documents, research notes, and customer escalations before replying, deciding, or taking action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmusser/context-to-action-skills/reduce-to-facts
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 tmusser/context-to-action-skills --skill reduce-to-facts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmusser/context-to-action-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,896 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 $0.00121 $0.01896
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00948
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00190

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3251b2dee8c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reduce-to-facts 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.

skills/reduce-to-facts/SKILL.md · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

reduce-to-facts

Purpose

Turn dense workplace source material into a fact ledger the user can trust before moving to a reply, decision, or action.

When to use

Use this when the context is too long, ambiguous, stakeholder-sensitive, high-stakes, contradictory, or too important to act on safely from a normal summary.

When not to use

Do not use this for simple short threads where brief-me, clear-ask, or follow-up-draft can act directly.

Output size rule

Default to a compact ledger with only the sections needed for the source.

Use the full ledger only when the source is dense, high-stakes, contradictory, or the user explicitly asks for a full fact ledger.

  • Omit empty optional sections for compact outputs.
  • For dense or high-stakes sources, include all major sections.
  • Use "None surfaced in the reviewed source" only when that absence is itself useful.

For short inputs, include:

  • Source scope
  • Atomic facts
  • Open questions
  • Action-relevant implications
  • Suggested next skill

Portable Output Contract

  • Use only the useful subset of source-backed facts, assumptions, source gaps, stakeholder sensitivities, potential misreads, and the suggested next action.
  • Use the smallest useful output.
  • Label assumptions and preserve source gaps, source anchors, and confidence labels.
  • Do not promote an assumption, inference, open question, proposed action, or stakeholder position into a fact, decision, commitment, owner, or deadline without new source support.
  • Keep unresolved approvals, owners, timing, and blockers explicit.
  • Do not send, publish, update tickets, create events, or mutate systems unless explicitly asked.

Source Mode

Default to source-only mode.

Switch to source-expanded mode only when the user explicitly asks to verify, fact-check, expand sources, support claims, refute claims, or use outside sources.

Source-Only Mode

  • Use only the supplied source material.
  • Do not verify externally.
  • Do not treat supplied material as true by default.
  • Separate directly stated claims from implied, assumed, or unsupported claims.
  • Use source anchors from the supplied material.

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 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 · 258 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 3251b2dee8c4

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reduce-to-facts is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmusser/context-to-action-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,896 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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