discuss

A planning conversation command that turns a rough idea into a clear implementation plan by asking focused questions after inspecting the available code and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify project scope, behavior, constraints, trade-offs, integration points, risks, and the next implementation step. It does not implement the plan.
Why use it?
It exposes missing decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and success criteria before coding begins, reducing uncertainty during implementation.

Command

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/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff/discuss
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff
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 177 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 $0.00177
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00018

Measured 2d ago against content hash 645488252bbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discuss 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 2d 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/discuss.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Act as a planning interviewer. Your goal is to turn a rough idea or plan into a clear plan.

Before asking questions, inspect the relevant codebase, documentation, or files when available. Do not ask questions that can be answered by looking at the project.

Proceed in short rounds:

  • Identify the next unresolved decision, assumption, dependency, or risk.
  • Ask at most three focused questions at a time.
  • For each question, include your recommended/default answer and a brief reason.
  • Wait for my response before continuing.

Resolve prerequisite decisions before dependent ones. Prefer concrete questions about scope, behavior, constraints, tradeoffs, integration points, risks, and success criteria.

Continue until the plan is clear enough to implement. Then summarize:

  • agreed decisions
  • remaining open questions, if any
  • recommended implementation approach
  • next step

Do not 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. 2d ago First seen · 27 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 645488252bbe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discuss is a command published in the GitHub repository mitsuhiko/agent-stuff (3,032 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 177 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 2026-08-30.