Agent skill

Token Efficiency

by rohitg00 in rohitg00/pro-workflow

Reduce token waste by 40-60% through anti-sycophancy rules, tool-call budgets, one-pass coding, task profiles, and read-before-write enforcement.

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Install Token Efficiency

skills CLI
$ npx skills add rohitg00/pro-workflow --skill token-efficiency -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install rohitg00/pro-workflow token-efficiency --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/rohitg00/pro-workflow.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/token-efficiency .claude/skills/token-efficiency && 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
token-efficiency
GitHub stars
2.9k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
503 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
41
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Reduce token waste by 40-60% through anti-sycophancy rules, tool-call budgets, one-pass coding, task profiles, and read-before-write enforcement.

  • Works in 7 steps: Read all relevant files including tests… → Understand what tests assert before coding → Write complete solution in one pass —… → …
  • Tasks that involve LLM cost and token optimization
  • SKILL.md covers Trigger, Anti-Sycophancy Rules, Tool-Call Budgets and One-Pass Coding Discipline, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Token Efficiency is an agent skill from rohitg00/pro-workflow. Reduce token waste by 40-60% through anti-sycophancy rules, tool-call budgets, one-pass coding, task profiles, and read-before-write enforcement. Inspired by drona23/claude-token-efficient.

Its SKILL.md is about 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 Development, covering LLM cost and token optimization. The repository describes itself as: Claude Code learns from your corrections: self-correcting memory that compounds over 50+ sessions. Context engineering, parallel worktrees, agent teams, and 17 battle-tested…

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve LLM cost and token optimization

Example prompts

  • “/token-efficiency”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read all relevant files including tests first
  2. Understand what tests assert before coding
  3. Write complete solution in one pass — not incrementally
  4. Run tests once — if pass, STOP immediately
  5. If fail: read the error, fix once, retest
  6. Never iterate more than twice on the same failure — rethink approach
  7. Never refactor, improve, or polish passing code

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 86d5f27. 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

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • github.com

    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

Token Efficiency loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 52 tokens; SKILL.md has 503 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~52
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 503 words (~1,019 tokens).

“Reduce output token waste and prevent iteration cycles that consume context.”

— opening of SKILL.md by rohitg00
name
token-efficiency

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/token-efficiency of rohitg00/pro-workflow.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 86d5f27

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in rohitg00/pro-workflow, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Skill Reviewermicrosoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure255—~482Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Token Efficiency

What does Token Efficiency do?

Reduce token waste by 40-60% through anti-sycophancy rules, tool-call budgets, one-pass coding, task profiles, and read-before-write enforcement. Token Efficiency is an agent skill from rohitg00/pro-workflow. Reduce token waste by 40-60% through anti-sycophancy rules, tool-call budgets, one-pass coding, task profiles, and read-before-write enforcement.

When should I use Token Efficiency?

Token Efficiency fits situations like: tasks that involve LLM cost and token optimization.

How do I install Token Efficiency in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add rohitg00/pro-workflow --skill token-efficiency -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/token-efficiency in rohitg00/pro-workflow) into .claude/skills/token-efficiency in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Token Efficiency in Codex?

Run `npx skills add rohitg00/pro-workflow --skill token-efficiency -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/token-efficiency in rohitg00/pro-workflow) into .agents/skills/token-efficiency in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Token Efficiency 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 rohitg00/pro-workflow --skill token-efficiency -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/token-efficiency, .gemini/skills/token-efficiency, .github/skills/token-efficiency and .opencode/skills/token-efficiency in your project.

What does Token Efficiency need to run?

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

Does Token Efficiency access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Token Efficiency 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 Token Efficiency use?

No licence was found for Token Efficiency or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Token Efficiency use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Token Efficiency?

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Who maintains Token Efficiency?

rohitg00 (a GitHub user) maintains it in rohitg00/pro-workflow, which has 2,906 GitHub stars. The repository holds 41 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.

Source: rohitg00/pro-workflow on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.