gut-check

gut-check is a command for coding agents from robconery/champion. It costs 46 tokens per session (678 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick check for whether an impulse or idea reflects the user's genuine priorities or a recurring self-defeating pattern. It uses the user's saved profile to compare the situation with known triggers and reactions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a fast review of a sudden plan, opportunity, or urge to change direction when you want to test whether it fits your stated goals.
Why use it?
It helps catch decisions driven by patterns such as comparison or impatience before they lead to a costly change.

Command

Part of the champion plugin — 15 commands, 21 agents 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/robconery/champion/gut-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robconery/champion

Or install champion, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 commands, 21 agents.

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 gut-check

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 678 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 5.1 $0.00046 $0.00678
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00339
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00068

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5d9fc25ab120, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gut-check 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.

champion/commands/gut-check.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plugin note: this command ships in the champion plugin, so every council agent it names is a plugin agent. When spawning any agent mentioned below, use the champion: prefix for the agent type (e.g. champion:historian, champion:north-star, champion:viewer).

Setup gate: before doing anything else, check that ~/.champion/dossier/PROFILE.md exists. If it does not, stop immediately and tell the user, politely, that the council cannot work without knowing who it fights for: run /champion:setup first (a 20–30 minute interview). Do not proceed in any form until setup is complete.

/gut-check, the pattern check

The user brought an impulse: $ARGUMENTS

This is the prime directive in command form. Not a gauntlet, no rounds, no verdict. A fast, honest read on one question: is this the user's true path, or their sabotage pattern firing?

The enemy is the user's named pattern, recorded as trigger → mechanism → result in ~/.champion/dossier/PROFILE.md (the archetypal example: the scatter, comparison → impatience → self-destruct/rebuild). Catch it before it costs three months.

Spawn two agents, then call it

Spawn in parallel:

  1. north-star: judge against ~/.champion/dossier/VALUES.md and ~/.champion/dossier/PROFILE.md. On-path, detour, or values-violation? Is this who the user is trying to become?
  2. historian: judge against ~/.champion/dossier/CAREER.md and the decisions log at ~/.champion/records/decisions-log.md (location per ~/.champion/dossier/context/records.md). Is this the user's sabotage pattern firing, the trigger and mechanism named in ~/.champion/dossier/PROFILE.md, or a deliberate values-walk? How many times has this shape appeared before?

Then the champion synthesizes. Check the contract recorded in ~/.champion/dossier/PROFILE.md (if any): does this impulse violate it?

Output

READ: <pattern-firing / brave-walk / neutral-and-fine>
THE TELL: <the one piece of evidence that decides it, the pattern's trigger? values match? recurrence?>
CONTRACT: <does this touch/violate the contract in PROFILE.md? yes/no/none recorded>
THE CALL: <hold the line, or go, one honest sentence>

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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 · 39 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 5d9fc25ab120

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gut-check is a command published in the GitHub repository robconery/champion (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 678 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.