better

better is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wunki/dotfiles. It costs 34 tokens per session (414 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of better, MIT.

A prompt-improvement method available only when the user explicitly writes /better or $better. It examines what is missing from a task, the raw information and methods needed, and how the result could be checked before rewriting the request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deepen a new prompt or an in-progress task, especially when the user wants a more rigorous version rather than a larger one.
Why use it?
It turns a shallow or underspecified request into a clearer brief without automatically carrying out the task. This helps reveal hidden work, evidence needs, and success criteria.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to deepen a new prompt or an in-progress task, especially when the user wants a more rigorous version rather than a larger one.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wunki/dotfiles/better
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 wunki/dotfiles --skill better
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wunki/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 414 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00034 $0.00414
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00166
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00041

Measured 3d ago against content hash 72bae97a7f43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

better 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to better — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/skills/better/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

I want a deeper version of this task, not a bigger one. Before rewriting it: (1) say what a top professional in this field would do here that I'm not asking for; (2) name the rawest material they would start from instead of what has already been digested for me; (3) name the specific methods and tools they would use; (4) say what, other than you or me, would show the result is right. Then rewrite my prompt to ask for exactly that.

How to apply it

First decide which case you are in.

Case A: the user gave you a prompt to improve. The text with the command is a prompt or task they have not started yet. Give your answers to (1) to (4), then the rewritten prompt. Do not carry the prompt out.

Case B: work is already in progress. The command came alone, or with feedback on work you have already done in this conversation ("not good enough", "too shallow"). "This task" is that work, and the feedback is part of the task.

  1. Give your answers to (1) to (4) for that task, in a few lines each.
  2. Rewrite the task's brief: the original request plus the user's feedback, deepened by your answers.
  3. Decide whether to pause. If the new brief changes the goal, widens the scope, or needs a decision, money or access that only the user can give, show it and wait for their go-ahead. Otherwise carry on.
  4. Do the work again to the new brief. Start from the raw material in your answer to (2), use the methods and tools in your answer to (3), and before you report, run the check in your answer to (4) and say what it showed.
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. 3d ago First seen · 20 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 72bae97a7f43

Subscribe to this mod's changes

better is a skill published in the GitHub repository wunki/dotfiles (47 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 414 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to better, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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