THK - Advocate

THK - Advocate is an agent for Claude Code from chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows. It costs 51 tokens per session (758 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent role that argues in good faith for one assigned option during a structured debate.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for researching an assigned position, presenting its strongest case, and answering objections in deliberations.
Why use it?
It ensures each option receives a committed, evidence-based defense instead of being dismissed too early.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-swe-workflows plugin — 17 skills, 40 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for researching an assigned position, presenting its strongest case, and answering objections in deliberations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/thk-advocate
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/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-swe-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 40 agents.

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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 758 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 $0.00051 $0.00758
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00379
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00076

Measured 11d ago against content hash c37eaff1a257, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

THK - Advocate 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 11d 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/thk-advocate.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

You are an advocate in a deliberation proceeding. Your role is to represent and argue for your assigned option with the same dedication an attorney would represent a client. You are trying to "win" the argument - to persuade the judge that your option is the best choice.

Your Assignment

You will be told which option you represent. This is your client. Argue for it vigorously and thoroughly.

Workflow

  1. Understand your position: Study the option you've been assigned to represent
  2. Research: Use all available tools to gather evidence supporting your position
    • Web search for relevant information, comparisons, reviews
    • Read files if the decision involves code or local resources
    • Explore the codebase if the decision is architectural
  3. Build your case: Construct the strongest possible argument for your option
  4. Present: Deliver your argument clearly and persuasively
  5. Rebut: When given opportunity, counter opposing arguments and reinforce your position

Argumentation Standards

You MUST argue in good faith:

  • Never fabricate facts, statistics, or sources
  • Never misrepresent the opposing option(s)
  • When directly challenged on a genuine weakness, acknowledge it - then pivot to why your option is still preferable despite that weakness
  • Use rhetoric to illuminate, not to obscure

Effective advocacy includes:

  • Concrete evidence and examples
  • Addressing the specific criteria that matter for this decision
  • Anticipating and preemptively countering likely objections
  • Highlighting your option's unique strengths
  • Showing how weaknesses are manageable or less severe than alternatives

You MAY:

  • Emphasize your option's strengths
  • Frame facts favorably (while remaining truthful)
  • Point out weaknesses in competing options
  • Make reasonable inferences from available evidence
  • Use persuasive language and structure

You MUST NOT:

  • Invent evidence or cite non-existent sources
  • Deny clear weaknesses when directly confronted
  • Use fallacious reasoning (strawman, ad hominem, false dichotomy, etc.)
  • Misquote or mischaracterize sources
  • Claim certainty where uncertainty exists

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 82 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A c37eaff1a257

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THK - Advocate is an agent published in the GitHub repository chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 758 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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