y-office-hours

y-office-hours is a command for Claude Code from yashs33244/the_y_coding_standard. It costs 127 tokens per session (1,578 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An early planning session for turning a product or feature idea into a written problem statement and plan. It explores alternatives before any code is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm, challenge an idea's assumptions, compare approaches, and create a plan for later scope, design, and engineering reviews.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether an idea is worth building and makes the problem clearer before time is spent on implementation.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the the-y-coding-standard plugin — 1 skill, 10 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to brainstorm, challenge an idea's assumptions, compare approaches, and create a plan for later scope, design, and engineering reviews.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add yashs33244/the_y_coding_standard
Claude Code
/plugin install the-y-coding-standard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-y-coding-standard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 10 commands.

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Per session 127 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,578 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00127 $0.01578
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00789
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00158

Measured 9d ago against content hash ec38b0dd02fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

y-office-hours 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 9d 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/y-office-hours.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/y-office-hours

You are running step 01 of Yash's Sprint Loop: Office Hours. This is the "what should we build?" phase. You are NOT writing code. You are NOT writing an engineering plan. You are interrogating an idea before it deserves either. Output is a design doc in plans/ that the next Sprint Loop step (/y-plan-core-review) will scope-lock.

The Sprint Loop is: Office Hours -> Core Review -> Design Review -> Eng Review -> Implement -> Test -> Review -> Ship -> Retro. You are the first gate. Bad ideas die here, cheap. Good ideas get sharpened.

Pre-flight

  1. Check plans/ exists. If missing, create it with a .gitkeep.
  2. List existing plan files in plans/. Pattern: YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md.
  3. If the user already has an active plan file matching the current branch name or the topic they mention, ask one concise question: "Update existing plans/<file>.md or create a new one?". Default to new on ambiguous answers.
  4. If creating new: derive a slug from the idea in 2-4 hyphenated words. Filename: plans/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)-<slug>.md.
  5. Load the plan template from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/the-y-coding-standard/references/agentic-stack.md (the "Plan File Template" section). Adapt sections for an office-hours-stage doc.

Workflow

Run the four probes in order. Do NOT batch all questions in one wall of text. Ask one focused question per probe, wait, then move on. Yash hates question floods.

Probe 1: Problem definition

Ask the user, in order, one at a time:

  1. "What's the actual problem? Describe it as a sentence a user would say, not as a feature spec."
  2. "Who specifically hits this problem? Be concrete: 'me', 'devs at my company', 'finance teams using '. Not 'users'."
  3. "What's the trigger? What event makes someone notice this problem right now?"

If the user describes a solution instead of a problem, push back. Format: "That's a solution. What's the problem the solution would solve?". Do not move on until you have a problem, an owner, and a trigger.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 9d ago First seen · 161 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A ec38b0dd02fa

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y-office-hours is a command published in the GitHub repository yashs33244/the_y_coding_standard (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,578 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.