descriptio-reducio

descriptio-reducio is a skill for Claude Code from Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,213 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for shortening skill and agent descriptions so routing systems can still see the important instructions. Some systems cut off long descriptions before their ending.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit skill and agent descriptions, measure their lengths, and move important capability or disambiguation text earlier.
Why use it?
It finds cases where key routing rules are placed beyond that cutoff and therefore cannot influence selection. This helps explain why the wrong skill or agent is chosen.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Use it to audit skill and agent descriptions, measure their lengths, and move important capability or disambiguation text earlier.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/totes-mickgoats/opus-pocus/descriptio-reducio
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 descriptio-reducio
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 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,213 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 $0.00122 $0.01213
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00121

Measured 10d ago against content hash e6906997673a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

descriptio-reducio 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 10d 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/descriptio-reducio/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

✨ Descriptio Reducio

"The router stops reading at 1,535 characters. Your masterpiece dies at 1,536."

Two facts about routing, both easy to forget: the router reads only the description: frontmatter, never the body — and listings truncate. In harnesses with a listing cap (around 1,500 characters in one measured setting; measure yours, the number is not a constant), everything past the cliff is invisible. Authors write descriptions front-loaded with capabilities and append the disambiguation ("NOT for: X → other-agent") last — exactly the part that falls off.

What to scan

Every description: in .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md, .claude/agents/*.md, plugin skills and agents, and any harness config that sets a listing cap.

Anti-patterns to find

  1. Past the cliff. Description length exceeds the listing cap.

    Measure the cap from inside a session, not from this file. The listing is injected into the model's system prompt and never displayed, so "render the listing" is not something a user can do — but the agent running this pass can read its own listing. Procedure:

    a. Find the longest description in the repo: for f in .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md .claude/agents/*.md; do awk '/^description:/{print length($0)-13, FILENAME}' "$f"; done | sort -rn | head b. Ask the running agent to quote that description back verbatim from its own listing, and diff it against the file. Where the quote stops is the cap. c. If nothing in the repo is long enough to truncate, the cap is unmeasurable here: this class has no instances, and the pass grades ? (could not verify), not O. Do not substitute a number measured on another harness.

  2. NOT-for clauses last. Disambiguation after the cliff — the router sees only the capabilities, so near-miss tasks route wrong. This is the highest-impact class: a truncated NOT-for is a routing defect, not a style issue.

  3. Body-only disambiguation. The routing rule lives in the agent's body ("do not use this for X") where no router ever reads it.

  4. Keyword stuffing. Fifty comma-separated trigger phrases; the description becomes noise and matches everything weakly.

  5. Twin descriptions. Two skills/agents whose descriptions overlap enough that routing between them is a coin flip — the distinction exists only in the bodies.

  6. Description restating the body. Procedure detail in the description (steps, flags, internal paths) that costs length without aiding routing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 10d ago First seen · 81 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A e6906997673a

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descriptio-reducio is a skill published in the GitHub repository Totes-MickGOATs/opus-pocus (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,213 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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