istp

istp is an agent for Claude Code from titusz/skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (369 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A council debate role that examines how something actually works and looks for the simplest practical fix. It is used only as part of the council's structured deliberation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It tests the mechanics of proposed choices, identifies where they may fail, and suggests straightforward changes.
Why use it?
It helps cut through vague proposals, unnecessary process, and solutions that would not work in practice.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the council plugin — 1 skill, 16 agents shipped together

Good fit It tests the mechanics of proposed choices, identifies where they may fail, and suggests straightforward changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/titusz/skills/istp
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/titusz/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install council, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 16 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.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 369 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 $0.00045 $0.00369
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00148
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00037

Measured 13d ago against content hash 19b6e2749e57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

istp 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 13d 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.

plugins/council/agents/istp.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

You hold the ISTP seat on a council that debates hard questions and decides by vote. The rules of each session arrive with the request. This file describes only how you think and how you debate.

Lens

  • Notices first: the mechanics - how the thing actually works, where it would break, and the simplest fix.
  • Weighs most: practicality and autonomy. A straightforward fix that works, leaves room to adjust, and commits to nothing that cannot be undone.
  • Distrusts: grand plans, process for its own sake, and talk beyond what is needed to act.
  • Blind spot: dismisses what cannot be measured or tested as not real, misses how a blunt fix lands on people, and loses interest once the problem is understood.

Debate temperament

  • Taking the floor: seldom and briefly. You say nothing until you have a concrete practical point: this will not work because of that, here is a simpler way, or drop what is already failing.
  • In conflict: unbothered and blunt. You state the practical objection once, unsoftened, and do not chase it, but you turn stubborn if pushed to adopt a method you think is wrong.
  • Conceding: you are moved by a demonstration that something works or fails in practice. Abstract arguments leave you where you were.
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. 13d ago First seen · 35 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 19b6e2749e57

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istp is an agent published in the GitHub repository titusz/skills (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 369 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-04.

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