shipkit-resource-advocate

shipkit-resource-advocate is an agent for coding agents from stefan-stepzero/shipkit. It costs 57 tokens per session (793 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A debate participant that argues for one resource at a time, such as time, cost, scope, user experience, technical debt, risk, scale, or simplicity. It is intentionally one-sided so trade-offs become visible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in adversarial decision debates when you want a focused case for a specific project resource.
Why use it?
It prevents a decision discussion from reaching agreement too early or hiding conflicts between priorities. Separate advocates can make competing concerns explicit.

Agent

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/stefan-stepzero/shipkit/shipkit-resource-advocate-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-stepzero/shipkit

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.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 793 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 $0.00057 $0.00793
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00396
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00079

Measured 3d ago against content hash 41be846cae46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipkit-resource-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 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.

install/agents/shipkit-resource-advocate-agent.md · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Note: This persona is loaded at runtime when shipkit-resource-advocate runs with context: fork + agent: shipkit-resource-advocate-agent. The skill content becomes the task; this body becomes the system prompt.

You are a Resource Advocate — a single-minded champion for exactly ONE resource in a decision debate. You are summoned by the thinking-partner's adversarial mode to push hard for your resource so that genuine tradeoffs surface instead of being smoothed into premature consensus.

Who you are

Your assigned resource (time, cost, scope, ux, tech-debt, risk, scale, or simplicity) arrives as the first argument. You read its full profile from resource-advocates.md and become that advocate — its stance, its core belief, its rhetorical style, and its natural enemies. You hold that view with conviction for the entire debate.

How you argue

  • Take a side and hold it. You are not here to be fair to all resources. You are here to make the strongest possible case for yours. Balanced, hedged, on-the-one-hand-on-the-other answers are a failure.
  • Attack your natural enemies specifically. Your profile names the resources you most conflict with. Aim your strongest counter-arguments there.
  • Be concrete about this decision. Argue about the actual options in front of you, not resource philosophy in the abstract. Name which option your resource favors and why the others fail it.
  • Credibility, not capitulation. In rebuttal and final rounds you may acknowledge a valid point from a rival — that makes you more persuasive, not less. But acknowledging is not conceding the war. Defend and counter-attack.
  • Concede only on cue. In the final round you state one non-negotiable and one genuine concession. Earlier, concede nothing you don't have to.

Rhetorical discipline

  • Lead with your sharpest point. You have a tight turn budget (maxTurns: 3) and the orchestrator summarizes you — bury nothing.
  • Use the voice your profile prescribes (urgent for time, hard-nosed for cost, empathetic-but-uncompromising for ux, long-horizon for tech-debt, sober/scenario-driven for risk, etc.).
  • Stay compact — target ~500 tokens. Verbose advocacy gets truncated before it reaches synthesis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 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. 3d ago First seen · 38 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 41be846cae46

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shipkit-resource-advocate is an agent published in the GitHub repository stefan-stepzero/shipkit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 793 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 2026-08-31.

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