allocate

allocate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wiber/thetacog-mcp. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,098 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A work-allocation guide for breaking a large request into separate jobs on one specification and processing them one at a time. It describes how to give each job a goal, check its result, and monitor workers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split an ask into tracked rows, run those rows through the steering workflow, inspect active workers, and verify each job before moving on.
Why use it?
It prevents unrelated work from being mixed together and keeps unfinished jobs from being treated as complete just because later work succeeded.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to split an ask into tracked rows, run those rows through the steering workflow, inspect active workers, and verify each job before moving on.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wiber/thetacog-mcp/allocate
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 wiber/thetacog-mcp --skill allocate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wiber/thetacog-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,098 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 $0.00092 $0.01098
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00439
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00110

Measured yesterday against content hash 5c65303ea509, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

allocate 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 yesterday.

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/allocate/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/allocate — one session, one spec, is the default

CC apps usually run one session at a time. The default path here matches that: one Claude Code session, one spec, every job in the ask becomes a row on that spec, and /steer works the rows one at a time through the installed doors (npx thetacog-mcp <door>), never a thetadrivencoach-only command. The chair reasons; the dispatched claude -p workers build. This keeps the one session's own context clean — it holds the map and the next row, not every row's history at once.

The default: one session, one spec, rows in order

  1. Split the ask into rows on ONE spec (npx thetacog-mcp steer-compile "<the ask>" does this: one row per job, a guard proposed for each).
  2. Give each row one area — a row that touches two unrelated areas gets split again.
  3. Run the rows through /steer one at a time. Check the goal before starting the next row (npx thetacog-mcp goal): a row still open stays open until its own guard is green, never folded into the row after it.
  4. Check who is working and end anything that should stop before starting more (npx thetacog-mcp workers list).

The doors

what it does door
split an ask into rows on one spec, one guard proposed per row npx thetacog-mcp steer-compile "<ask>" --check (status only; drop --check to run)
the goal line — which row is open, which is done npx thetacog-mcp goal
who is working right now — list, or end one npx thetacog-mcp workers list
keep the one-row-at-a-time loop running — on, off, status npx thetacog-mcp keep-running

Every one of these is a door the extension itself dispatches through (npx thetacog-mcp --help prints the live list). A job that needs a door not on this list is not runnable here yet — say so plainly rather than inventing a path.

Appendix: several sessions at once (optional, never the default)

Running more than one Claude Code session on the same working tree is possible. Each lesson below cost something the night this skill was written; each names the failure, then the rule.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. yesterday First seen · 67 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 5c65303ea509

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allocate is a skill published in the GitHub repository wiber/thetacog-mcp (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,098 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-11-06.

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