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set-effort

set-effort is a skill for Claude Code from tu11aa/squadrant. It costs 40 tokens per session (488 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setting for controlling how generously the Squadrant crew system uses tokens when choosing agents and models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read or set the global effort mode to max, balance, or low, and apply that preference to new or running captain sessions.
Why use it?
It lets you favor higher capability, normal usage, or lower token consumption without changing the routing rules themselves.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Part of the squadrant plugin — 27 skills shipped together

not rated 2repo yesterday A scan 40 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to read or set the global effort mode to max, balance, or low, and apply that preference to new or running captain sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tu11aa/squadrant/set-effort
View source ↗ tu11aa/squadrant
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tu11aa/squadrant --skill set-effort
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tu11aa/squadrant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install squadrant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 488 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 $0.00040 $0.00488
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00195
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00049

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0aaee46547af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

set-effort 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 2mo 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.

plugin/skills/set-effort/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

squadrant:set-effort — Global Crew Effort Dial

The effort dial is a one-field toggle in ~/.config/squadrant/config.json that biases the captain's crew spawning decisions. It does not rewrite routing rules — it is a hint the captain honors when choosing agent/model for new crews.

Modes

Mode Meaning
max Tokens are plentiful. Prefer claude/opus for crew spawns; don't downshift for cost.
balance Normal. Use default crew routing rules unchanged. (Default when field is absent.)
low Conserve tokens. Prefer opencode/sonnet for crews; reserve opus for work that genuinely needs it.

Get current effort

squadrant effort

Prints the current mode and its one-line meaning. Does not write anything.

Set effort

squadrant effort max
squadrant effort balance
squadrant effort low
  • Validates the value (errors with the 3 valid options if invalid).
  • Writes defaults.effort via the existing saveConfig atomic path.
  • Prints a confirmation line.
  • Best-effort: sends a one-line notice to any running captain workspace so a live session adjusts immediately. If no captain is running, the change applies on next launch.

Manual edit (fallback)

If the CLI is unavailable, edit ~/.config/squadrant/config.json directly:

{
  "defaults": {
    "effort": "low"
  }
}

Valid values: "max" | "balance" | "low". Absent field is equivalent to "balance".

Scope

Effort is crew-only. It does not affect captain, command, or side roles — those stay pinned to their configured model regardless of effort.

Precedence

Effort is the weakest signal. Explicit --agent / --model flags on squadrant crew spawn always win. Effort only biases the captain's default choice when nothing more specific applies.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 0aaee46547af

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set-effort is a skill published in the GitHub repository tu11aa/squadrant (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 488 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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