options-comparator

options-comparator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from travisjneuman/.claude. It costs 38 tokens per session (4,719 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for comparing several choices with criteria, weights, scores, trade-offs, and recommendation templates. A weighted score gives more influence to criteria that matter most.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare products, vendors, technical approaches, purchases, or business strategies, then produce a documented recommendation.
Why use it?
It makes decisions easier to explain and reduces the risk of choosing based only on intuition or one attractive feature. It keeps alternatives and their compromises visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare products, vendors, technical approaches, purchases, or business strategies, then produce a documented recommendation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/travisjneuman/.claude/options-comparator
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 travisjneuman/.claude --skill options-comparator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,719 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 $0.00038 $0.04719
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01888
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00944
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00472

Measured 17d ago against content hash 6bdcef583aef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

options-comparator 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 17d 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/options-comparator/SKILL.md · 536 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 536 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Options Comparator

Structured frameworks for systematically comparing alternatives, scoring options, and producing defensible recommendations.

Weighted Scoring Matrix

Standard Weighted Matrix Template

WEIGHTED SCORING MATRIX:

STEP 1: Define criteria and weights (must sum to 100%)

| Criterion       | Weight | Option A | Option B | Option C |
|-----------------|--------|----------|----------|----------|
| [Criterion 1]   |   25%  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |
| [Criterion 2]   |   20%  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |
| [Criterion 3]   |   20%  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |
| [Criterion 4]   |   15%  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |
| [Criterion 5]   |   10%  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |
| [Criterion 6]   |   10%  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |   [1-5]  |
|-----------------|--------|----------|----------|----------|
| WEIGHTED TOTAL  |  100%  |  [sum]   |  [sum]   |  [sum]   |

STEP 2: Calculate weighted scores
  Weighted score = Raw score x Weight
  Total = Sum of all weighted scores

STEP 3: Interpret results
  4.5-5.0: Excellent fit
  3.5-4.4: Good fit
  2.5-3.4: Acceptable with trade-offs
  1.5-2.4: Poor fit — significant concerns
  1.0-1.4: Disqualified

SCORING RUBRIC:
  5 = Exceeds requirements / best in class
  4 = Fully meets requirements
  3 = Partially meets requirements
  2 = Significant gaps
  1 = Does not meet requirements / disqualifying

Weight Assignment Methods

Method How It Works Best For
Direct assignment Stakeholders allocate 100 points across criteria Small groups, quick decisions
Pairwise comparison Compare criteria two at a time, derive weights Rigorous prioritization
MoSCoW ranking Must/Should/Could/Won't, then assign within tiers Requirements-driven decisions
Swing weighting Rate criteria by how much best-to-worst matters Complex multi-attribute decisions
Stakeholder voting Each stakeholder distributes 10 votes Democratic team decisions

Read the full file on GitHub · 536 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. 17d ago First seen · 536 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 6bdcef583aef

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options-comparator is a skill published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (101 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 4,719 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 2026-09-30.

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