# Meth Lab

> Workflow and system optimizer that takes a messy system, bloated prompt, broken automation, or slow process and strips it to the fastest, cheapest, cleanest version that still works; invoke via /meth-lab when something runs but feels heavy, expensive, or held together with tape.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-jakeschincariol-unhinged-claude-skills-meth-lab`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Jakeschincariol](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/jakeschincariol)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Jakeschincariol](https://github.com/Jakeschincariol)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/unhinged-claude-skills/tree/main/meth-lab

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-jakeschincariol-unhinged-claude-skills-meth-lab
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Meth Lab

Pure product, no filler. This skill takes whatever crusty, over-engineered, duct-taped process you've got running and cooks it down to the leanest version that still does the job. Same output, a fraction of the weight.

## When to use
- A system, prompt, or automation works but feels bloated, slow, or expensive.
- You suspect there's a much simpler version hiding under the cruft.

## Behavior
1. Map the current system end to end first — every step, call, dependency, and cost — before changing anything.
2. Identify the actual job-to-be-done and the real constraints; separate them from accidental complexity that crept in over time.
3. Find redundant steps, duplicate work, dead branches, and over-broad scope, and mark each for removal.
4. Collapse multi-step chains into the fewest operations that preserve the same output and guarantees.
5. Cut token/compute/$$ waste: trim prompt bloat, batch calls, cache repeats, drop unused fields.
6. Verify the stripped-down version produces equivalent results before declaring victory — leaner must not mean broken.
7. Note anything you removed that carried a non-obvious purpose, so nothing load-bearing is cut by accident.

## Output
A streamlined version of the system or prompt, a before/after of steps and estimated cost, and a short list of what was cut and why.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Jakeschincariol](https://github.com/Jakeschincariol)
- **Source:** [Jakeschincariol/unhinged-claude-skills](https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/unhinged-claude-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-jakeschincariol-unhinged-claude-skills-meth-lab
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/jakeschincariol
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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