Find Wasted Effort

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Find Wasted Effort skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Find Wasted Effort is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Content · Sub-category: content-misc · Last updated: 2026-08-21

type:audit

Use when the operator runs "/find-wasted-effort" or asks about "wasted effort", "ceremony overhead", "process overhead", "outcome-neutral steps", "are our gate stops worth it", "is the Full lane overkill here", or wants the process-per-outcome sibling of /token-waste-audit. Audits Flow ARTIFACTS ON DISK (gate reports, deploy reports, handoffs, approval artifacts, git log, prevents: annotations) for ceremony that bought no safety outcome — distinct axis from token-waste-audit (tokens-per-rule, from transcripts). Read-only to the project (Phase 1 + Phase 2A: writes only the gitignored state/audit/; Phase 2A adds proposal OUTPUT — a Proposed memory entries report section + optional state/audit/ JSON — but applies nothing; no prune / no overlay edits). Do NOT use for token/transcript economy (token-economy + /token-waste-audit own that), for execution-layer polling/record-then-read economics (smoke-testing § Verification cost discipline owns that), for doc budgets (documentation-budget owns that), or to auto-remove any ceremony element (pruning is PO-owned, never automatic, never this audit's job).

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From the source SKILL.md

The process-per-outcome ceremony audit — the sibling of the tokens-per-rule /token-waste-audit (FR-26). Different axis, different inputs, shared discipline.

What this skill does

Find Wasted Effort is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the content-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/find-wasted-effort/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the operator runs "/find-wasted-effort" or asks about "wasted effort", "ceremony overhead", "process overhead", "outcome-neutral steps", "are our gate stops worth it", "is the Full lane overkill here", or wants the process-per-outcome sibling of /token-waste-audit. Audits Flow ARTIFACTS ON DISK (gate reports, deploy reports, handoffs, approval artifacts, git log, prevents: annotations) for ceremony that bought no safety outcome — distinct axis from token-waste-audit (tokens-per-rule, from transcripts).

Who uses this skill

The Find Wasted Effort Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 213,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/find-wasted-effort
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/find-wasted-effort/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/find-wasted-effort/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/find-wasted-effort/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/find-wasted-effort/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\find-wasted-effort\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Find Wasted Effort Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/find-wasted-effort/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Find Wasted Effort skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Find Wasted Effort skill?

Use Find Wasted Effort when your Claude Code task falls under the Content category — specifically in the content misc area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Find Wasted Effort" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/content/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Find Wasted Effort skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Find Wasted Effort is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/find-wasted-effort/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: fusebase-dev
Website: https://ai-dev.thefusebase.com/

Cite this skill

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APA

fusebase-dev. (2026). Find Wasted Effort [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/find-wasted-effort/

BibTeX

@misc{find-wasted-effort-2026,
  author    = {fusebase-dev},
  title     = {Find Wasted Effort [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/find-wasted-effort/}
}

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Security scan

Grade A · scanned 2026-11-01 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.

No risk patterns were found in any of the ten OWASP-aligned categories. How grading works ›

✓ Prompt injection
✓ Data exfiltration
✓ Supply chain
✓ Reverse shell
✓ Credentials
✓ Execution
✓ Filesystem
✓ Persistence
✓ Obfuscation
✓ Network

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