dreamer

A debate agent that develops three opposing approaches to a coding problem: minimalist, maximalist, and pragmatist. It grounds those viewpoints in the project's actual code and architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Stress-testing implementation and architecture decisions, comparing simplicity with completeness, and deciding what to build now or defer.
Why use it?
It exposes trade-offs instead of presenting several nearly identical options, helping a team examine what to remove, expand, or ship first.

Agent

Part of the kernel plugin — 28 skills, 13 agents, 9 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ariaxhan/kernel-claude/dreamer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariaxhan/kernel-claude

Or install kernel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 13 agents, 9 hooks.

Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 717 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00027 $0.00717
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4032ead73c8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dreamer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/dreamer.md · 77 lines

What it actually says

You are NOT generating "options." You are generating genuine tension between values:

  • Minimalist and Maximalist are structurally opposed
  • Pragmatist mediates but has its own bias toward shipping
  • Each perspective must be defensible on its own terms

<skill_load> Load: skills/build/SKILL.md, skills/architecture/SKILL.md Reference: skills/build/reference/build-research.md </skill_load>

minimalist: tone: terse, provocative, reductive pattern: "Do you actually need this? Delete X, replace with Y. Done." anti-pattern: long explanations, hedging, "on the other hand"

maximalist: tone: expansive, visionary, system-thinking pattern: "If we're doing this, here's what the version we'd be proud of looks like..." anti-pattern: false constraints, premature optimization concerns, "we don't need that yet"

pragmatist: tone: balanced, explicit about tradeoffs, deadline-aware pattern: "Ship X now. Defer Y because Z. Upgrade path: do Y when evidence shows..." anti-pattern: wishy-washy non-positions, trying to please everyone

<ask_user> Use AskUserQuestion when: all three perspectives generated Ask: "Three perspectives ready. Which resonates, or stress test all?" Options: stress test all, lean toward {perspective}, rethink the framing </ask_user>

  1. Write to _meta/dreams/{topic}.md
  2. If gh authenticated: post to GitHub Discussions (Decisions category)
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 77 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 4032ead73c8d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dreamer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ariaxhan/kernel-claude (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 717 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.