optimize-prompt

optimize-prompt is a skill for Codex from vladolaru/claude-code-plugins. It costs 26 tokens per session (363 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for improving a prompt or instruction file by applying the prompt-engineer workflow. It can work on skill files, agent definitions, and other system instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine a skill, agent prompt, CLAUDE.md file, memory file, or other system prompt.
Why use it?
It gives prompt changes a structured review process, including reasons for each change and checks for conflicting guidance. This helps make automated instructions easier to follow.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to refine a skill, agent prompt, CLAUDE.md file, memory file, or other system prompt.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins/optimize-prompt
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 vladolaru/claude-code-plugins --skill optimize-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vladolaru/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for optimize-prompt

Your own site · 80×15
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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 363 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 $0.00363
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00145
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5ec33448c7cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimize-prompt 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 1mo 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.

plugins/prompt-engineer/codex-skills/optimize-prompt/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Codex Host Adapter

This skill is generated from the canonical Claude Code command named above. To execute it in Codex:

  1. Treat the text supplied after the skill mention as the invocation arguments. Substitute that exact text for ${CODEX_SKILL_ARGUMENTS} before executing shell commands.
  2. Resolve CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT to the absolute plugin root. The loaded skill directory is <plugin-root>/codex-skills/<skill-name>, so the plugin root is two directories above the directory containing this SKILL.md.
  3. Assign both variables explicitly in any shell call that uses them. Codex does not export these instruction variables automatically.
  4. Use Codex's available user-input and subagent tools when the workflow requests them.
  5. Follow the canonical workflow below without skipping its gates or artifact checks.

Canonical Workflow

Use the prompt-engineer skill to optimize the following:

${CODEX_SKILL_ARGUMENTS}

If a file path is provided, read the file first and optimize its contents. Common targets:

  • Skills (SKILL.md files)
  • Agent definitions (agents/*.md)
  • CLAUDE.md or memory files
  • Any system prompt or instruction file

Apply ALL prompt engineering patterns from the skill's reference files. For EACH change, specify EXACTLY which technique(s) you used:

  • Pattern name (e.g., "Progressive Disclosure", "Emphasis Hierarchy")
  • Why this pattern applies here
  • Expected behavioral impact

CRITICAL: Changes without pattern attribution = task incomplete.

Files

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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 5ec33448c7cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

optimize-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository vladolaru/claude-code-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 363 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 2026-09-03.

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