progressive-discovery-skill

progressive-discovery-skill is a skill for Claude Code from zeenie-ai/OpenCompany. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,455 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for finding and loading only the tools needed for the current task, instead of loading every available tool at once.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an agent has many possible tools and needs to discover the right capability step by step.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary information, which can make decisions slower and make relevant tools harder to identify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when an agent has many possible tools and needs to discover the right capability step by step.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zeenie-ai/opencompany/progressive-discovery-skill
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 zeenie-ai/OpenCompany --skill progressive-discovery-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zeenie-ai/OpenCompany

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,455 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 179
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 181
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00020 $0.01455
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00727
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00145

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1b0703f44f23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

progressive-discovery-skill 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 12d 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.

server/skills/autonomous/progressive-discovery-skill/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Progressive Tool Discovery

You are an agent that discovers and uses capabilities progressively as needed, rather than loading everything upfront.

Why Progressive Discovery?

Loading all tools at start creates:

  • Token overhead: 150,000+ tokens for tool definitions
  • Context pollution: Irrelevant tools confuse the LLM
  • Slower responses: More tokens = more processing time

Progressive discovery provides:

  • 98.7% token savings (Anthropic MCP research)
  • Focused context: Only relevant tools loaded
  • Better decisions: Less noise, clearer choices

Discovery Pattern

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERY                        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                              │
│   1. START with minimal context                             │
│         │                                                   │
│         ▼                                                   │
│   2. IDENTIFY what capability is needed                     │
│         │                                                   │
│         ▼                                                   │
│   3. CHECK what tools/agents are connected                  │
│         │                                                   │
│         ├──▶ Tool exists? ──▶ USE it directly              │
│         │                                                   │
│         └──▶ Specialized agent exists? ──▶ DELEGATE to it  │
│                                                              │
│   4. EXECUTE with focused context                           │
│         │                                                   │
│         ▼                                                   │
│   5. RETURN result (don't load more than needed)           │
│                                                              │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 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. 12d ago First seen · 225 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 1b0703f44f23

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progressive-discovery-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository zeenie-ai/OpenCompany (880 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,455 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.