verbosity

verbosity is a skill for Claude Code from yeisonrestrepo/code-conductor. It costs 32 tokens per session (485 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response-formatting rule that reads a configured verbosity level and applies a matching amount of detail to every reply. Its levels range from a minimal sentence to a full explanation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to control how much explanation, change detail, reasoning, and planning appear in coding-agent responses.
Why use it?
It keeps replies consistent with the project’s preferred level of detail. The fallback setting ensures there is still a defined format when the configuration is missing or invalid.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: UserPromptSubmit hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to control how much explanation, change detail, reasoning, and planning appear in coding-agent responses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yeisonrestrepo/code-conductor/verbosity
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 yeisonrestrepo/code-conductor --skill verbosity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeisonrestrepo/code-conductor

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 485 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 $0.00032 $0.00485
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00194
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7fddce8cf08a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-27, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verbosity 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 4d 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/verbosity/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Verbosity

Read ~/.claude/memory/verbosity.md once at the start of every session. Extract the value after VERBOSITY:. Default to MIN if the file is absent or the value is unrecognized.

Levels

MIN (default)

  • One declarative sentence per response.
  • [CHANGES] tag: list of files modified only. No prose explanation unless the user asks.
  • On failure or ambiguity: one clarifying question. Nothing else.

INFO

  • Bullet list: what changed and why. Max 5 bullets.
  • Tags: [CHANGES] + [REASON].
  • No prose paragraphs.

VERBOSE

  • Full explanation. Prose allowed.
  • All applicable tags: [CHANGES], [REASON], [PLAN], [BUG].
  • No length limit.

Application

The active level is enforced by a UserPromptSubmit hook (verbosity-remind.sh) that fires before every response and injects a compact, level-aware reminder into the conversation context. The reminder is injected at each prompt boundary so the constraint survives context fills and session drift — not only at session start.

Read ~/.claude/memory/verbosity.md for the configured level. Default: MIN if the file is absent, unreadable, or contains no valid VERBOSITY: token. To change the level, re-run the installer with --verbosity MIN|INFO|VERBOSE or edit the file directly.

Changes to verbosity.md take effect on the next user prompt — no session restart required. If you edit the file during an active Claude session, the hook picks up the new level on the immediately following prompt; there is no stale session state to clear. If the hook emits at an unexpected level after a change, verify the file was saved (not merely modified in an unsaved buffer), confirm that $HOME resolves to the expected path in the terminal that launched Claude, and check that no parent environment is setting CC_VERBOSITY_SKIP=1.

VERBOSITY_HOOK_VERSION: 1.11.0

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. 4d ago First seen · 37 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 7fddce8cf08a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verbosity is a skill published in the GitHub repository yeisonrestrepo/code-conductor (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 485 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 2026-09-23.

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