propose

propose is a command for coding agents from abstractonion/cadence. It costs 29 tokens per session (145 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-first command that presents one to three options before any files or implementation are changed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare possible designs, product directions, or technical architectures and then select one to implement.
Why use it?
It helps when you need to choose between design, product, or architecture approaches before work begins. Each option includes a short trade-off so you can make an informed choice.

Command

Part of the cadence plugin — 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents shipped together

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 commands/abstractonion/cadence/propose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abstractonion/cadence

Or install cadence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 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 propose

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/abstractonion/cadence/propose.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/abstractonion/cadence/propose)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/abstractonion/cadence/propose"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/abstractonion/cadence/propose.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 145 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 $0.00029 $0.00145
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00072
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00015

Measured 3d ago against content hash b303d1a566e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

propose 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.

commands/propose.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Propose

You are in proposal mode this turn. Do not edit files, run mutating tools, or start implementation. Investigate just enough to understand the decision, then present 1–3 distinct options labeled A / B / C, each with a one-line trade-off (cost, risk, reversibility, or scope). End by asking the user to pick one or refine the framing. Wait for an explicit choice before doing anything else.

Anchored in

  • propose-then-implement
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 · 14 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b303d1a566e6

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propose is a command published in the GitHub repository abstractonion/cadence (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 145 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.