roast

roast is a command for coding agents from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement. It costs 69 tokens per session (513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An idea-review command that asks five different viewpoints to challenge a proposal, then gives one verdict: proceed, reshape it, or stop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a product or business idea, its buyer, pricing, advantages, and limits before implementation.
Why use it?
It exposes weak assumptions before you spend time building. It also suggests the cheapest test to run within 48 hours.

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/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/roast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement

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Per session 69 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 513 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 $0.00069 $0.00513
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00257
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00051

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5f55692d026c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

roast 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/roast.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

/roast

Pressure-test an idea before you build it. Convene a council of five independent persona agents who attack the idea from every angle, then act as the Judge and return one decisive verdict — so Law 1 (Research Before Executing) is satisfied on the idea itself, not just the plan.

Trigger phrases

  • /roast
  • /roast <the idea>
  • "roast this idea"
  • "convene the council"
  • "pressure-test this" / "stress-test this idea"
  • "validate this business idea"
  • "give me a brutal second opinion before I build this"

What happens

  1. Brief. Read the idea from the argument (if given) and ask up to 3-4 clarifying questions in one batch — the idea, the buyer + money model, your edge, your constraints. Skip the questions if the user says "just run it."
  2. Council (parallel). Spin up all five personas in parallel, each pasted the same brief: Contrarian (assume it fails), Expansionist (the 10x case), Logician (first-principles, no web), Researcher (web evidence + competitors), Buyer (role-play the target customer). Each returns a stance, 3-5 sharp points, the one thing you must hear, and a 1-10 score.
  3. Verdict. Act as the Judge: resolve the council's tension, fold in the economics lens, and return one GO / RESHAPE / KILL call with the biggest risk, biggest upside, money read, and — most importantly — the cheapest 48-hour test to validate the riskiest assumption before building anything.

Skill file

Full behavior is defined in skills/roast.md.

Pairs with

  • /grill-me — roast validates the idea; grill-me then hardens the plan.
  • /proceed-with-the-recommendation — walk the verdict's next steps under the 7 Laws.
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 · 35 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 5f55692d026c

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roast is a command published in the GitHub repository naimkatiman/continuous-improvement (7 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 513 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.