deliberation

deliberation is a skill for Claude Code from brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator. It costs 126 tokens per session (1,071 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured discussion method for difficult technical, architectural, or design decisions whose real options or framing are not yet clear. It collects views from several stakeholder roles, such as security, engineering, or operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before brainstorming or committing to a direction when multiple legitimate concerns pull against each other, such as deciding how to change an authentication system.
Why use it?
It helps expose competing constraints and reveal whether the question itself needs to be reframed before choosing a solution. It is intended for uncertain decisions, not for already well-defined choices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superpowers-orchestrator plugin — 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before brainstorming or committing to a direction when multiple legitimate concerns pull against each other, such as deciding how to change an authentication system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/deliberation
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 brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator --skill deliberation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,071 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 $0.00126 $0.01071
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00107

Measured 9d ago against content hash 84412df38a0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deliberation 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/deliberation/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deliberation

Surface genuine tension in a decision before committing to a direction.

When to use

Some decisions get worse when you're forced to choose too early. Use deliberation when:

  • The options themselves are not yet well-defined
  • The problem may be framed incorrectly (the real question hasn't been asked)
  • Multiple legitimate constraints pull in different directions
  • Brainstorming feels premature — there's no clear "right shape" for the solution yet

Do not use for: decisions that are already well-framed with clear options. Those go directly to brainstorming. Deliberation is for when you're not yet ready for options.

Procedure

1. Name the decision

State the decision being deliberated in one sentence. Be precise — a vague decision produces vague perspectives.

Example: "Should we migrate the authentication layer from JWT to session cookies?"

2. Identify 3–5 genuine stakeholder perspectives

Choose perspectives that have real, distinct stakes in the decision. Each perspective represents a legitimate set of constraints or values — not a person, but a role with a coherent viewpoint.

Good perspectives for technical decisions:

  • The Security Engineer — attack surface, credential management, audit trail
  • The Developer Experience Advocate — implementation complexity, debugging, onboarding
  • The Ops/Infrastructure Engineer — deployment, scaling, observability, failure modes
  • The Maintainability Advocate — long-term code health, testability, cognitive load
  • The Performance Engineer — latency, throughput, caching, resource cost
  • The User/Product Perspective — visible user impact, reliability, behaviour changes

Choose only perspectives with genuine stakes in this specific decision. Three well-chosen perspectives beat five generic ones.

3. Let each perspective speak once

For each perspective in turn:

  • State what this perspective most values in the context of this decision
  • Identify the specific concern or constraint it sees
  • Name what it would lose in each direction being considered

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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 · 114 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 84412df38a0d

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deliberation is a skill published in the GitHub repository brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,071 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.

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