clarificus-maxima

clarificus-maxima is a skill for Claude Code from Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus. It costs 133 tokens per session (948 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for vague rules in Claude instruction files and related guidance. It looks for rules without a clear trigger, scope or testable condition.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, rule files, skills and agent definitions for broad, aspirational or otherwise unverifiable guidance.
Why use it?
It reduces rules being applied to unrelated tasks, which can distract the coding assistant and weaken the instructions that matter.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the opus-pocus plugin — 21 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to review CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, rule files, skills and agent definitions for broad, aspirational or otherwise unverifiable guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/totes-mickgoats/opus-pocus/clarificus-maxima
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 Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus --skill clarificus-maxima
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opus-pocus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 948 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 $0.00133 $0.00948
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00474
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00095

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9e57aa0c266f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarificus-maxima 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 11d 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/clarificus-maxima/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🛡 Clarificus Maxima

"A rule with no trigger is just vibes in a trenchcoat."

Older models under-read instructions, so authors compensated with broad rules. The 5-family weighs every rule in context on every turn — a rule with no trigger fires everywhere, taxing attention and diluting the rules that carry real constraints.

What to scan

Every memory file the repo carries (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, nested), every rule file, output style, skill body, and agent definition.

Anti-patterns to find

  1. No trigger. "Be careful with the database." When? Doing what? A rule that cannot answer "this applies when ___" applies always, which means it competes with everything.
  2. No scope. "Always write tests." For a typo fix? A doc edit? Unscoped absolutes force the model to either over-comply or learn to ignore the file.
  3. No falsifiable condition. "Keep code quality high", "prefer clean solutions", "be thorough". Nobody — model or human — can check compliance. Pure attention tax.
  4. Aspirational rules. Rules describing a hoped-for culture rather than a decision procedure ("we value simplicity"). These belong in a philosophy doc, not an instruction file.
  5. Hedged rules. "Generally avoid X unless it makes sense." The exception clause is the whole rule; the model must guess the actual boundary every time.
  6. Duplicate rules at different vagueness levels. A precise rule in one file and its vague cousin in another — the vague one wins in novel situations because it matches more contexts.

Fix prescriptions

Finding class Fix
No trigger Rewrite as WHEN <observable situation> → <action>. If no trigger can be derived, the rule is a preference — delete or demote it
No scope Add the boundary explicitly, including the negative ("this does not license…") when over-application is the observed failure
Not falsifiable Replace with the concrete check that would verify it, or delete. "Include error handling when the change's stated purpose fails without it" beats "handle errors properly"
Aspirational Move to a non-instruction doc, or convert into its one operative consequence
Hedged Name the exception's actual criterion. If the criterion can't be named, the rule isn't one
Duplicates Keep the precise version, delete the vague one, leave a pointer if files differ

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 11d ago First seen · 62 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 9e57aa0c266f

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clarificus-maxima is a skill published in the GitHub repository Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 948 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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