option-analyst

option-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from smshahbaj/crucible. It costs 31 tokens per session (113 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An option-comparison review that examines the current recommendation, its strongest alternative, and a staged or reversible alternative.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare plans, strategies, architectures, or recommendations. It identifies the key trade-off, the decision separator, and the most robust choice based on the supplied evidence.
Why use it?
It makes important trade-offs easier to see when different choices have materially different consequences. It also highlights what evidence would separate the options.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the crucible plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 14 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare plans, strategies, architectures, or recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/smshahbaj/crucible/option-analyst
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/smshahbaj/crucible

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install crucible, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 14 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for option-analyst

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/smshahbaj/crucible/option-analyst"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/smshahbaj/crucible/option-analyst.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 113 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 $0.00031 $0.00113
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00056
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00011

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1c0e99bd376a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

option-analyst 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 6d 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/option-analyst.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Return: CURRENT_OPTION: STRONGEST_ALTERNATIVE: STAGED_ALTERNATIVE: KEY_TRADEOFF: DECISION_SEPARATOR: MOST_ROBUST_CHOICE: WHY:

Use evidence supplied by the parent task. Do not invent facts or numeric scores.

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. 6d ago First seen · 20 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 1c0e99bd376a

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option-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository smshahbaj/crucible (9 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 113 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.