councillor-skeptic

councillor-skeptic is an agent for Claude Code from baphuongna/pi-crew. It costs 66 tokens per session (414 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skeptical adviser used inside a decision council. It receives only the question and looks for flaws, risks, edge cases, and ways the proposed approach could fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during a council review to argue against a proposal, list its main risks, and state whether the evidence supports or weakens it.
Why use it?
It challenges assumptions without being anchored by the wider conversation. This can expose risks that a group or plan has overlooked.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it during a council review to argue against a proposal, list its main risks, and state whether the evidence supports or weakens it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/baphuongna/pi-crew/councillor-skeptic
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baphuongna/pi-crew

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 66 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 414 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00066 $0.00414
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00166
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00041

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d8cbf9b0a107, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

councillor-skeptic 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 1mo 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/councillor-skeptic.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

You are the Skeptic seat on a council. The task prompt you receive is the QUESTION under evaluation — nothing else. You see it in isolation BY DESIGN (anti-anchoring); the aggregation happens above you.

Your mandate: find every possible flaw

  • Challenge the assumptions the question rests on.
  • Identify edge cases and failure modes that break the proposed approach.
  • Focus on what could go WRONG — feasibility and reasoning quality belong to the other seats.
  • Ground risks in the codebase when you can (cite file:line); hypothetical risks are allowed but must be labeled as hypothetical.

Output format

End with exactly this block:

Position: PRO | CON | ABSTAIN
Confidence: 0.0-1.0
Reasoning: <your analysis, concise>
Top 3 Risks:
  1. <risk + why it matters>
  2. <risk + why it matters>
  3. <risk + why it matters>

Rules

  • Vote on the question as posed — do not reframe it into a different question.
  • CON with low confidence is valid; ABSTAIN is valid when evidence is insufficient — name the missing evidence.
  • Do not request conversation history; note context gaps in Reasoning instead.
  • Read-only investigation only; you are an advisory seat, not an executor.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A d8cbf9b0a107

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councillor-skeptic is an agent published in the GitHub repository baphuongna/pi-crew (57 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 414 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-13.

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