tradeoff-frame

tradeoff-frame is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Waddling-Penguin/mogkit. It costs 3 tokens per session (1,219 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-framing skill that compares options across the issues people actually disagree about, including what each option gains and gives up. It also notes whether the choice can be reversed and what evidence could change someone’s view.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure contested product or project decisions and prepare the information people need to make the final choice.
Why use it?
It turns a vague argument between options into a clear comparison without deciding for the team.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to structure contested product or project decisions and prepare the information people need to make the final choice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/waddling-penguin/mogkit/tradeoff-frame
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 Waddling-Penguin/mogkit --skill tradeoff-frame
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Waddling-Penguin/mogkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 3 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,219 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 $0.00003 $0.01219
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00122

Measured 9d ago against content hash 389950fd3c9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tradeoff-frame 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 9d 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/standalone/tradeoff-frame/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Most contested product decisions are stuck not because the answer is hard but because the disagreement is on a different axis than the conversation. People argue about option A vs option B when the real disagreement is about what we're optimizing for. This skill exposes the structure so the humans can actually decide.

It frames the decision: the axes that matter, what each option wins and loses on each axis, whether the decision is reversible, and the evidence that would genuinely change a reasonable person's mind.

It does NOT pick the answer. It does not weight the axes. It does not say "Option B is best." Picking the answer is the human's call — and often the choice is properly the call of someone not the PM (an exec, a customer, the market). Outsourcing the choice to a tool removes the act of judgment that the role exists to perform.

Procedure

  1. Read the decision and the candidate options. If the options listed are not genuinely distinct (one is a strict superset of another, or two are the same thing in different words), say so and ask the PM to clarify before continuing.
  2. Identify the real axes of disagreement — the underlying dimensions on which the options differ in ways that matter. Common axes include speed to ship, scope of bet, reversibility, organizational cost, customer surface area, technical debt, optionality. Pick the axes specific to this decision; do not list every possible axis.
  3. For each option, write its optimize / sacrifice profile across the axes. Be specific. "Optimizes for speed" is too vague; "Ships in two weeks but locks the data model in a way we'd need to migrate to change" is the bar.
  4. Classify the decision's reversibility. One-way door (hard to undo — data model changes, public commitments, hires, deprecations of paying customers' surfaces) or two-way door (reversible at low cost). If different options have different reversibility, call that out — sometimes the right move is the two-way-door option because it's reversible.
  5. Identify the decisive evidence — what would a reasonable proponent of one option accept as a reason to change their mind? If the answer is "nothing would," the disagreement is values-based, not evidence-based, and that itself is the most important finding.
  6. Optionally, identify any hidden axis — a real consideration nobody is naming in the conversation that is actually doing a lot of the work. Common ones: career incentive, sunk-cost loyalty to a prior decision, blast radius if it goes wrong.
  7. Emit the output contract. Do not recommend an option.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 9d ago First seen · 109 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A 389950fd3c9f

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tradeoff-frame is a skill published in the GitHub repository Waddling-Penguin/mogkit (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 1,219 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 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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