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.
npx skills add vinta/hal-9000 --skill fuck-over-engineeringgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinta/hal-9000Wrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinta/hal-9000/fuck-over-engineering)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinta/hal-9000/fuck-over-engineering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinta/hal-9000/fuck-over-engineering/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinta/hal-9000/fuck-over-engineering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinta/hal-9000/fuck-over-engineering.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00085 | $0.00810 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00324 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00162 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00081 |
Grade A, and why
fuck-over-engineering 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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Fuck Over-Engineering
Audit the scope for over-engineering and report what to cut. The best outcome is a shorter codebase with the same behavior. The argument is the scope; without one, the whole tree. Read what the scope holds before judging it, and fan out subagents when it will not fit in context.
Tags
delete:dead code, unused flexibility, speculative feature, special-case branch no input reaches. Nothing replaces it.reuse:hand-written code, or a near-duplicate, that a helper in this codebase or an installed dependency already provides. Name the helper or function.stdlib:hand-rolled thing, or a dependency, that the language's standard library ships. Name the function.native:dependency or code doing what the platform already does. Name the feature.yagni:abstraction with one implementation, factory with one product, wrapper that only delegates, file exporting one thing, config or flag nobody sets, layer with one caller.shrink:same logic, fewer lines. Show the shorter form.
Evidence
Every finding cites the evidence that makes it a cut: caller count, implementation count, or the stdlib or platform feature and the version that ships it. Count callers through dynamic dispatch, entry points, hooks, and tests, not grep alone. A published package's public export is not a cut at zero in-repo callers: its callers live outside the repo. Verify stdlib: and native: claims against current docs (the find-docs skill when present) before asserting them.
A finding removes lines or concepts; moving them between files is a refactor, not a cut. Fewer, bigger cuts beat a long list: a shrink: that saves two lines earns a slot only when it also removes a concept.
Output
Use AskUserQuestion in Claude Code or request_user_input in Codex when available. Use plain text when neither tool is available.
One line per finding, numbered, ranked biggest cut first:
N. <tag> <what to cut>. <replacement>. <evidence>. [path:line]
delete: omits the replacement sentence. End with net: -<N> lines, -<M> deps possible. Nothing to cut: Lean already. Ship.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 3d ago Changed · -3 lines 5cdb08597c1d
- 7d ago Changed · -1 lines 4253d4621622
- 23d ago Changed 0b59c2bcb049
- 24d ago Changed 9b3dc3a90e04
- 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines b5277fc3ee5f
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 6d17be66395b
- 1mo ago Changed 7d4154cdc26e
- 2mo ago Changed 67a83ccf4bad
- 2mo ago Changed · -7 tokens per session 7abf1e7d3058
- 2mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 5dbf05976d4b
fuck-over-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinta/hal-9000 (143 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 810 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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