omakase-off

omakase-off is a skill for Claude Code from 2389-research/test-kitchen. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,120 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that helps decide how to build a feature or product when the best approach is unclear. It can offer several approaches, implement them in parallel, and use tests to help choose between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Exploring implementation options, comparing different designs, and choosing an approach during a build or product-creation task.
Why use it?
It reduces uncertainty when requirements or design choices do not point to one obvious solution.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the test-kitchen plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Exploring implementation options, comparing different designs, and choosing an approach during a build or product-creation task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/2389-research/test-kitchen/omakase-off
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 2389-research/test-kitchen --skill omakase-off
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/2389-research/test-kitchen

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install test-kitchen, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,120 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 $0.00079 $0.01120
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00560
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00112

Measured 9d ago against content hash 09fc73aba212, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

omakase-off 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.

skills/omakase-off/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Omakase-Off

Chef's choice exploration - when you're not sure WHAT to build, explore different approaches in parallel.

Part of Test Kitchen Development:

  • omakase-off - Chef's choice exploration (different approaches/plans)
  • cookoff - Same recipe, multiple cooks compete (same plan, multiple implementations)

Core principle: Let indecision emerge naturally during brainstorming, then implement multiple approaches in parallel to let real code + tests determine the best solution.

Three Triggers

Trigger 1: BEFORE Brainstorming

When: "I want to build...", "Create a...", "Implement...", "Add a feature..."

Present:

Before we brainstorm the details, would you like to:

1. Brainstorm together - We'll explore requirements and design step by step
2. Omakase (chef's choice) - I'll generate 3-5 best approaches, implement them
   in parallel, and let tests pick the winner

Trigger 2: DURING Brainstorming (Indecision Detection)

Detection signals:

  • 2+ uncertain responses in a row on architectural decisions
  • Phrases: "not sure", "don't know", "either works", "you pick", "no preference"

When detected:

You seem flexible on the approach. Would you like to:
1. I'll pick what seems best and continue brainstorming
2. Explore multiple approaches in parallel (omakase-off)

Trigger 3: Explicitly Requested

  • "try both approaches", "explore both", "omakase"
  • "implement both variants", "let's see which is better"

Workflow Overview

Phase Description
0. Entry Present brainstorm vs omakase choice
1. Brainstorm Passive slot detection during design
1.5. Decision If slots detected, offer parallel exploration
2. Plan Generate implementation plan per variant
3. Implement Dispatch ALL agents in SINGLE message
4. Evaluate Scenario tests → fresh-eyes → judge survivors
5. Complete Finish winner, cleanup losers

See references/detailed-workflow.md for full phase details.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 140 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 09fc73aba212

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omakase-off is a skill published in the GitHub repository 2389-research/test-kitchen (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,120 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.