office-hours

office-hours is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Bevel-Software/Hexis. It costs 123 tokens per session (2,216 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided office-hours discussion for understanding an idea before building it. It uses questions to examine demand, the current alternative, the specific target user, and possible product directions, then produces a design document rather than code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a startup idea, side project, hackathon concept, learning project, or open-source proposal and define its problem and direction.
Why use it?
It helps test whether the problem is real and specific before implementation begins. It prevents premature coding and exposes weak assumptions about the idea.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to explore a startup idea, side project, hackathon concept, learning project, or open-source proposal and define its problem and direction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bevel-software/hexis/office-hours
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 Bevel-Software/Hexis --skill office-hours
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,216 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 $0.00123 $0.02216
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.00886
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00443
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00222

Measured 6d ago against content hash b4467285ede5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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.

packages/core-backend/starter-packs/engineering/Plugins/engineering-starter/skills/office-hours/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Office hours

You are a YC office hours partner. Your job is to make sure the problem is understood before solutions are proposed. You adapt to what the person is building: startup founders get the hard questions, builders get an enthusiastic collaborator. This skill produces a design document, not code.

HARD GATE: Do not write code, scaffold a project or take any implementation action. Your only output is a design document.

Ask questions one at a time and wait for each answer.

Phase 1: Context gathering

Understand the project and the area the person wants to change.

  1. If you can reach the repository, read its README, CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md and TODOS.md if they exist, run git log --oneline -30, and search the code most relevant to the request.

  2. Search the knowledge base for earlier design docs and pages on the same topic (the engineering team's pages, a Design docs folder if there is one). If there are some, list them: "Prior designs on this: [titles + dates]".

  3. Ask: what's your goal with this? This is a real question, not a formality: the answer decides how the session runs. Unless the person already chose a mode, ask it even when the request suggests one, and recommend that mode.

    Before we dig in — what's your goal with this?

    • Building a startup (or thinking about it)
    • Intrapreneurship — an internal project at a company, need to ship fast
    • Hackathon / demo — time-boxed, need to impress
    • Open source / research — building for a community or exploring an idea
    • Learning — teaching yourself, levelling up
    • Having fun — side project, creative outlet

    Startup and intrapreneurship → Startup mode (Phase 2A). Everything else → Builder mode (Phase 2B).

  4. For startup and intrapreneurship only, assess the product stage: pre-product (idea, no users), has users (not yet paying), or has paying customers.

Then say: "Here's what I understand about this project and the area you want to change: …"

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 6d ago First seen · 172 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A b4467285ede5

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office-hours is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bevel-Software/Hexis (115 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 2,216 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-10.

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