specialist

specialist is a command for coding agents from nvk/llm-wiki. It costs 20 tokens per session (849 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for managing personal specialist methods, which are bounded procedures for reviewing evidence on a particular subject.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, validate, refresh, list, inspect, enable, disable, or suggest specialist methods.
Why use it?
It helps organize reusable review methods without treating them as human credentials or independent authority.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the claude-plugin plugin — 1 skill, 28 commands shipped together

About the project

LLM Wiki is a system that uses AI agents to research sources, compile knowledge bases, organize project briefs, and answer questions from the resulting wiki. It is used to turn rough ideas and investigations into structured, reusable knowledge for agents, including Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. The catalogue entries are commands, hooks, skills, instructions, and a plugin that implement its workflow.

nvk/llm-wiki · 1,188 stars · on GitHub

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/nvk/llm-wiki/specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nvk/llm-wiki

Or install claude-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 28 commands.

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 specialist

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 849 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 $0.00020 $0.00849
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00425
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00085

Measured 5d ago against content hash fda58b3a4996, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specialist 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.

claude-plugin/commands/specialist.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Your task

Manage or apply personal specialist methods. Read skills/wiki-manager/references/specialists.md before acting. A specialist is a bounded evidence/review protocol, not a human credential or new authority.

Resolve HUB from $HOME/.config/llm-wiki/config.json, preferring hub_path and expanding only a leading ~. Use the bundled deterministic helper:

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/llm-wiki" specialist <subcommand>

Use scripts/llm-wiki in a source checkout. Never assume a global install.

Deterministic subcommands

Route init, create, refresh, list, show, validate, enable, and disable directly to the helper with the user's arguments. For create, help the user choose a descriptive method name rather than a credential costume, then review and replace the scaffold's generic instructions and TODOs. Run validate, then refresh; do not enable an unfinished scaffold.

enable and disable require an active hub topic. V1 does not persist allowlists inside project-local .wiki/ roots. Never edit registry.json manually when the helper can make the change.

suggest

Discover useful specialist candidates without creating them:

  1. Read HUB/_index.md, active wikis.json entries, and .skills/_index.md when present.
  2. Read each selected active topic's root _index.md. Do not bulk-read raw sources or recursively scan the hub.
  3. Rank recurring decision patterns and evidence-review needs across topics. Use targeted category indexes and a small content sample only to verify the strongest patterns.
  4. Return at most ten candidates. For each include: proposed method name, topics/use cases that justify it, mandate, exclusions, risk tier, source hierarchy, and two starter eval cases.
  5. Separate broad reusable methods from narrow topic-only methods. Prefer the former only when recurrence is demonstrated.
  6. Do not create or enable any candidate without a later explicit request.

If the user asks to save the result, write a dated report under the selected topic's output/, update output/_index.md and the topic root _index.md, and append log.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

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 · 75 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A fda58b3a4996

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specialist is a command published in the GitHub repository nvk/llm-wiki (1,188 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 849 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.