steelman

steelman is a plugin for Claude Code from paulbaranowski/wild-horses. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 90 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool that argues the strongest reasonable case against a proposed change or plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Stress-testing designs, implementation plans, and proposed changes before deciding whether to proceed.
Why use it?
It exposes hidden costs, weak assumptions, simpler options, and reasons to leave things unchanged before work is shipped.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add paulbaranowski/wild-horses
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/paulbaranowski/wild-horses/steelman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulbaranowski/wild-horses

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 90 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

steelman 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 4d 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.

plugins/steelman/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 9 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "steelman",
  "description": "Argue the strongest good-faith case AGAINST the proposed changes in the current conversation or a named design/plan file. A built-in red-team voice: surfaces hidden costs, wrong assumptions, simpler alternatives, and the do-nothing option, so a plan gets stress-tested before it ships.",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Paul Baranowski"
  }
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 90 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 4d ago First seen · 9 lines scan A b46817f108b7

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steelman is a plugin published in the GitHub repository paulbaranowski/wild-horses (11 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.