co-mathematician

co-mathematician is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from VeryMath/co-mathematician. It costs 26 tokens per session (502 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-management workflow for carrying out one defined piece of software work from its requirements through implementation. It sends the work to a delivery lead, who coordinates developers, dependencies, and the test plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select a roadmap slice, confirm its size and dependencies, create an implementation packet and task list, and run the required delivery workflow.
Why use it?
Large projects are easier to deliver when work is split into manageable slices with clear acceptance criteria. This process prevents an oversized slice from being started without first breaking it down.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to select a roadmap slice, confirm its size and dependencies, create an implementation packet and task list, and run the required delivery workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/verymath/co-mathematician/co_mathematician
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 VeryMath/co-mathematician --skill co_mathematician
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VeryMath/co-mathematician

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 502 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 $0.00026 $0.00502
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00201
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00050

Measured today against content hash c87300b53d46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-27, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

co-mathematician 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 today.

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.

harness/co_math/resources/co_mathematician_skill.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Co-Mathematician

Use the repository files as durable project memory. The active coding-agent conversation coordinates the work; co-math only manages project files and reports their current state.

Project Lifecycle

  • Create a project with co-math new "<name>". Return the new path and ask the user to open that directory. Do not start the research in the creation conversation.
  • Use co-math list to find existing projects.
  • At the start of a project session, run co-math resume --project ..
  • When unsure what to do, run co-math next --project . and take only the next useful action.
  • Ask the user to confirm before archiving finished work with co-math archive --project .. Archiving never deletes research files. Use co-math reopen --project . to continue later.

Keep replies short: current situation, first blocker if any, and one next action.

Research Workflow

  1. Read AGENTS.md and the current files under workspace/project/.
  2. During onboarding, ask the user to choose the document language and clarify the research question. Do not solve the problem yet.
  3. Check .agents/skills/ for a relevant mathematical domain Skill. If one is selected, follow its inner workflow.
  4. Record the research question and draft goals in workspace/project/GOALS.yaml.
  5. Start a workstream only after the user explicitly approves its goal.
  6. Save proof attempts, computations, literature notes, failed routes, and uncertainty in the workstream directory.
  7. Ask an independent reviewer to inspect every completed workstream report. The report author cannot approve their own report.
  8. Produce workspace/final/working_paper.md as the final research output, not a chat summary.

Durable Files

workspace/project/       question, goals, status, messages
workspace/workstreams/   proofs, computations, literature, failures, reviews
workspace/final/         final working paper

Important claims must point to user input, literature, a proof, a computation, or a review. Keep failed attempts and unresolved uncertainty visible.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. today First seen · 54 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A c87300b53d46

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co-mathematician is a skill published in the GitHub repository VeryMath/co-mathematician (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 502 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-27.

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