interrogation-prelude

interrogation-prelude is a command for coding agents from lugassawan/swe-workbench. It costs 0 tokens per session (284 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interrogation-mode command that chooses between a standard workflow and a question-by-question mode before continuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for choosing lightweight clarification or a deeper guided decision process before another workflow runs.
Why use it?
It prevents the command from proceeding without resolving which interaction style to use.

Command

Part of the swe-workbench plugin — 60 skills, 25 commands, 32 agents, 4 hooks 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/lugassawan/swe-workbench/interrogation-prelude
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lugassawan/swe-workbench

Or install swe-workbench, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 60 skills, 25 commands, 32 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 284 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 $0.00000 $0.00284
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00028

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0ed07031428b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interrogation-prelude 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 5d 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.

shared/commands/interrogation-prelude.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

Interrogation mode. Before producing anything, resolve the mode:

  • Explicit signal in the invocation is honored without asking. grill-me = --grill, "grill me", or "grill-me mode". standard = --standard, "standard", or "quick". Strip the signal from $ARGUMENTS and record the resolved mode.
  • No explicit signal: ask via AskUserQuestion — one question, header "Mode", options Standard (recommended, listed first) and Grill me. Standard description: "Lightweight clarify — a restatement and at most one question, then proceed." Grill-me description: "Relentlessly walk the decision tree one question at a time, each with a recommended answer, self-answering from the codebase where possible." Use the user's choice.

Standard mode: proceed with the command's existing lightweight clarify (a restatement and at most one clarifying question) — do not ask the mode question again.

Grill-me mode: activate swe-workbench:workflow-grill and run its interrogation loop to completion (exit on shared understanding or when the user says "proceed"). Then thread the emitted ## Resolved decisions block into the command's normal artifact/delegation step below — the same way a ticket-context summary is prepended — and continue as in standard mode.

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. 5d ago First seen · 9 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0ed07031428b

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interrogation-prelude is a command published in the GitHub repository lugassawan/swe-workbench (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 284 tokens. 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.