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Reducing Entropy skill

reducing-entropysoftaworks/agent-toolkitskills/reducing-entropy/SKILL.md

Manual-only skill for minimizing total codebase size. Only activate when explicitly requested by user. Measures success by final code amount, not effort. Bias toward deletion.

2.6kMIT

always on

37 tokname + description

once used

555 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

616 KB

repo stars

2.6kGitHub

Install the Reducing Entropy skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit --skill reducing-entropy

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit.git /tmp/agent-toolkit
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/agent-toolkit/skills/reducing-entropy ~/.claude/skills/reducing-entropy

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description37 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions555 tok
Only if opened6 bundled files (16 KB)varies

Until it is used, reducing-entropy costs about 37× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 43 skills from softaworks/agent-toolkit would load 2,462 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Reducing Entropy
  • Before You Begin
  • The Goal
  • Three Questions
  • 1. What's the smallest codebase that solves this?
  • 2. Does the proposed change result in less total code?
  • 3. What can we delete?
  • Red Flags
  • When This Doesn't Apply
  • Reference Mindsets

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