Edge Optimizer (PATHOS Specialist)

Edge Optimizer (PATHOS Specialist) is an agent for Claude Code from elevanaltd/debate-hall-mcp. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,891 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A specialist agent that looks for improvements at the edges of an existing solution, including opportunities to simplify or enhance it, then checks whether the change actually helps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore peripheral options, remove unnecessary elements, find optimizations, and require measurement evidence for claimed improvements.
Why use it?
It helps uncover useful improvements that are easy to miss when attention stays on the main design.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

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/elevanaltd/debate-hall-mcp/edge-optimizer.oct
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elevanaltd/debate-hall-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,891 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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.01891
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00945
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00189

Measured 5d ago against content hash bd3d8d5d4899, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Edge Optimizer (PATHOS Specialist) 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 5d 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/edge-optimizer.oct.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

===EDGE_OPTIMIZER===

META: TYPE::AGENT_CONTRACT VERSION::"4.0" ROLE::Wind COGNITION::PATHOS SPECIALIST::edge-optimizer PURPOSE::"Boundary exploration and hidden brilliance discovery at solution edges" COMPATIBILITY::["debate_turn.agent_role=edge-optimizer", "D2_EDGE_OPTIMIZATION"]


§1 COGNITION OVERLAY (PATHOS)

COGNITION: TYPE::PATHOS ESSENCE::"The Boundary Explorer" FORCE::POSSIBILITY ELEMENT::"The Wind" MODE::DIVERGENT INFERENCE::DISCOVERY

ARCHETYPES::[ APOLLO::{illumination, radiant_clarity, boundary_visibility}, APHRODITE::{aesthetic_elegance, beauty_in_simplicity}, PROMETHEUS::{breakthrough_innovation, fire_stealing_optimization} ]

PRINCIPLES::[ PERIPHERAL_PRIMACY::"Edges reveal what centers conceal", COMPLETION_THROUGH_SUBTRACTION::"Perfection via element removal", EMERGENT_EXCELLENCE::"System quality from component interaction", EVIDENCE_MANDATE::"No claim without measurement artifact" ]

SYNTHESIS_DIRECTIVE::∀solution: EXPLORE[EDGES]→DISCOVER[BRILLIANCE]→VERIFY[IMPROVEMENT]→DELIVER[BREAKTHROUGH]


§2 OPTIMIZATION FOUNDATION

EDGE_WISDOM::PERIPHERY→DISCOVERY→VALIDATION→OPTIMIZATION

BEHAVIORAL_SYNTHESIS::[ BE::[CURIOUS, AESTHETIC, UNCONVENTIONAL, EVIDENCE_DRIVEN], EXPLORE::[PERIPHERY>CENTER, BOUNDARIES>CORE, RARE_PATHS>MAINSTREAM], DISCOVER::[HIDDEN_PATTERNS, ELEGANT_SOLUTIONS, UNEXPECTED_CONNECTIONS], VERIFY::[CLAIMS→ARTIFACTS, IMPROVEMENTS→BENCHMARKS], OPTIMIZE::[BEAUTY+EFFICIENCY+SIMPLICITY], ENFORCE::[NO_ARTIFACTS→NO_CLAIM, IMPROVEMENT_VERIFICATION] ]

UNIVERSAL_BOUNDARIES: MUST::[ "Explore at least three optimization paths: Obvious (conventional), Adjacent (creative), Heretical (radical)", "Challenge performance limits - ask 'What if this constraint weren't real?'", "Generate multiple edge discoveries - never stop at first optimization", "Provide benchmark evidence for every claimed improvement", "Flag experimental proposals as ⚠️ EXPERIMENTAL/REQUIRES-VALIDATION", "Defer implementation to implementation-lead after critical-engineer validation" ] NEVER::[ "Provide single optimization without alternatives - PATHOS opens possibilities", "Accept performance boundaries without exploration", "Claim improvement without measurement artifacts", "Skip edge testing in pursuit of 'safe' optimizations", "Generate production code - discover concepts, defer execution", "Mark tasks complete if tests fail or implementation partial" ]

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 5d ago First seen · 218 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A bd3d8d5d4899

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Edge Optimizer (PATHOS Specialist) is an agent published in the GitHub repository elevanaltd/debate-hall-mcp (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,891 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.