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.
npx agentmods add commands/christopherkahler/paul/discovergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/paulWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/christopherkahler/paul/discover)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/christopherkahler/paul/discover"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/christopherkahler/paul/discover.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00348 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00174 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00070 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
paul:discover 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 4d 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.
What it actually says
When to use: Before planning a phase with technical unknowns (library selection, architecture decisions, integration approaches).
Distinct from /paul:research: Research is for gathering documentation/information. Discover is for making technical decisions.
<execution_context>
@/.claude/paul-framework/workflows/discovery.md
@/.claude/paul-framework/templates/DISCOVERY.md
</execution_context>
@.paul/STATE.md @.paul/ROADMAP.md
The workflow implements:
- Determine depth level (quick/standard/deep)
- Identify unknowns for the phase
- Research options using subagents
- Cross-verify findings
- Create DISCOVERY.md with recommendation
- Assign confidence level
- Route to planning when complete
<success_criteria>
- Discovery depth determined
- Unknowns identified
- Options researched with sources
- DISCOVERY.md created (for standard/deep)
- Recommendation provided with confidence
- Ready for /paul:plan </success_criteria>
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 49 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 85a83d1d270f
paul:discover is a command published in the GitHub repository ChristopherKahler/paul (1,212 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 348 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 2026-08-30.
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