Agent skill

Rewards Optimizer

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Figure out the best card or payment route for a purchase (or your everyday spending) to maximize cashback/points — without overspending or drowning in complexity.

MITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Rewards Optimizer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rewards-optimizer -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills rewards-optimizer --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/rewards-optimizer .claude/skills/rewards-optimizer && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
rewards-optimizer
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
539 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Figure out the best card or payment route for a purchase (or your everyday spending) to maximize cashback/points — without overspending or drowning in complexity.

  • Works in 5 steps: Match the card to the category. Use… → Keep the everyday map simple. A… → Redeem smartly. Points aren't all worth… → …
  • Asked which card should I use for [purchase]
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Value First, Never… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Rewards Optimizer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Figure out the best card or payment route for a purchase (or your everyday spending) to maximize cashback/points — without overspending or drowning in complexity. Use when asked which card should I use for [purchase], maximize my credit card rewards, best card for [category], or optimize my points. Produces the best-value route for the spend from the cards/programs you actually have, a simple everyday cheat-sheet by category, redemption tips, and honest guardrails (pay in full, don't chase points into debt or…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering LLM guardrails. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked which card should I use for [purchase]
  • Maximize my credit card rewards
  • Best card for [category]
  • Optimize my points

Example prompts

  • “/rewards-optimizer”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Match the card to the category. Use whichever card earns the highest rate for that specific spend — bonus categories are where the value is.
  2. Keep the everyday map simple. A two-or-three-card routine most people can actually remember beats a 10-card optimization nobody follows.
  3. Redeem smartly. Points aren't all worth the same — flag high-value redemptions and watch for devaluation; sometimes plain cashback wins.
  4. Judge fees honestly. An annual fee only pays off if your spending in its categories clears the fee in rewards — do that math.
  5. Guardrail hard. Rewards are worthless if you carry a balance or overspend to earn them — pay in full, don't chase. Say this plainly.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Rewards Optimizer loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 141 tokens; SKILL.md has 539 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~141
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 539 words, ~1,078 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/rewards-optimizer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
rewards-optimizer
description
Figure out the best card or payment route for a purchase (or your everyday spending) to maximize cashback/points — without overspending or drowning in complexity. Use when asked which card should I use for [purchase], maximize my credit card rewards, best card for [category], or optimize my points. Produces the best-value route for the spend from the cards/programs you actually have, a simple everyday cheat-sheet by category, redemption tips, and honest guardrails (pay in full, don't chase points into debt or clutter). Not financial advice.

Rewards Optimizer

Reward programs are designed to be confusing so most value goes unclaimed. This cuts through it: given the cards and programs you actually have, it tells you the best one to use for a specific purchase or builds a simple by-category cheat-sheet for everyday spending — while keeping the golden rule front and center: rewards are only worth it if you pay in full and don't spend more to earn them.

What This Skill Produces

  • The best route for this spend — which of your cards/programs earns most for the specific purchase or category
  • An everyday cheat-sheet — a simple "use card X for groceries, Y for dining, Z for everything else" map
  • Redemption tips — how to get the most value when cashing in (transfer partners, statement credit vs travel, avoiding devaluation)
  • Guardrails — pay-in-full always, don't chase sign-ups into debt, keep it simple enough to actually follow
  • A "worth it?" check — when an annual fee or a new card does or doesn't pay off for your spending

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Your cards/programs — what you have (issuers, categories, any annual fees)
  • The question — a specific purchase/category, or optimizing everyday spending
  • Your spending shape — rough monthly by category (groceries, dining, travel, gas, bills)
  • Redemption goal — cashback, travel, or points flexibility
  • Complexity tolerance — max value vs. keep-it-simple

Framework: Value First, Never Into Debt

  1. Match the card to the category. Use whichever card earns the highest rate for that specific spend — bonus categories are where the value is.
  2. Keep the everyday map simple. A two-or-three-card routine most people can actually remember beats a 10-card optimization nobody follows.
  3. Redeem smartly. Points aren't all worth the same — flag high-value redemptions and watch for devaluation; sometimes plain cashback wins.
  4. Judge fees honestly. An annual fee only pays off if your spending in its categories clears the fee in rewards — do that math.
  5. Guardrail hard. Rewards are worthless if you carry a balance or overspend to earn them — pay in full, don't chase. Say this plainly.
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Output Format

Rewards: [specific spend / everyday] · cards: [yours]

For this purchase: use [card] — earns [rate/value] because [category bonus].

Everyday cheat-sheet

CategoryBest cardWhy
Groceries[card][rate]
Dining[card][rate]
Everything else[card][base rate]

Redeem for max value: [best redemption path + watch-outs]. Fee check: [card] fee pays off if you spend ~[x] in [category].

Not financial advice. Only worth it if you pay the balance in full every month and don't spend more to earn rewards.

Quality Checks

  • Recommends the highest-earning card for the actual category
  • Everyday cheat-sheet is simple enough to follow
  • Includes redemption-value guidance, not just earning
  • Does honest annual-fee math
  • Leads with pay-in-full / don't-overspend guardrails
  • Uses only the cards/programs the person has

Anti-Patterns

  • Optimizing into complexity nobody will follow.
  • Ignoring the pay-in-full rule — interest erases all rewards.
  • Encouraging spend to hit bonuses.
  • Treating all points as equal value.
  • Recommending a fee card without the break-even math.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Which card should I use for booking a flight?"
  • "Help me maximize my cashback across my cards."
  • "Best card for groceries and dining from what I have?"
  • "Is this card's annual fee worth it for my spending?"
  • "Set me up a simple system for which card to use where."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/rewards-optimizer of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Rewards Optimizer

What does Rewards Optimizer do?

Figure out the best card or payment route for a purchase (or your everyday spending) to maximize cashback/points — without overspending or drowning in complexity. Rewards Optimizer is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Figure out the best card or payment route for a purchase (or your everyday spending) to maximize cashback/points — without overspending or drowning in complexity.

When should I use Rewards Optimizer?

Rewards Optimizer fits situations like: asked which card should I use for [purchase]; maximize my credit card rewards; best card for [category]; optimize my points.

How do I install Rewards Optimizer in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rewards-optimizer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rewards-optimizer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/rewards-optimizer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Rewards Optimizer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rewards-optimizer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rewards-optimizer in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/rewards-optimizer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Rewards Optimizer in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill rewards-optimizer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/rewards-optimizer, .gemini/skills/rewards-optimizer, .github/skills/rewards-optimizer and .opencode/skills/rewards-optimizer in your project.

What does Rewards Optimizer need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Rewards Optimizer is instructions for the agent only.

Does Rewards Optimizer access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Rewards Optimizer safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Rewards Optimizer use?

Rewards Optimizer is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Rewards Optimizer use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Rewards Optimizer?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.