consult

consult is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cluesmith/ci-channel. It costs 78 tokens per session (898 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for asking Gemini, Codex, or Claude to review code, plans, specifications, and other project material. It can save the result to a file and supports several review workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for general questions, code and pull-request reviews, plan or specification checks, protocol-based reviews, and parallel reviews by three models.
Why use it?
It lets you get analysis from an external AI model when you want another view of a design or implementation. This can expose risks or missing details before work is merged.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ci plugin — 5 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cluesmith/ci-channel/consult
Any agent
npx skills add cluesmith/ci-channel --skill consult
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cluesmith/ci-channel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ci, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 898 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00078 $0.00898
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00090

Measured 5d ago against content hash 644632fc718a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consult 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/consult/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

consult - AI Consultation CLI

Query external AI models for reviews and analysis. Supports Gemini, Codex, and Claude.

Synopsis

consult -m <model> [options]
consult stats [options]

The -m / --model flag is always required except for consult stats.

Models

Flag value Alias Notes
gemini pro Fast (~120-150s), file access via --yolo
codex gpt Thorough (~200-250s), shell exploration
claude opus Agent SDK with tool use (~60-120s)

All flags

-m, --model <model>         Model to use (required except stats)
--prompt <text>              Inline prompt (general mode)
--prompt-file <path>         Prompt file path (general mode)
--protocol <name>            Protocol: spir, aspir, air, bugfix, tick, maintain
-t, --type <type>            Review type (see below)
--issue <number>             Issue number (required in architect context)
--output <path>              Save result to file
--plan-phase <phase>         Scope review to a plan phase (porch use)
--context <path>             Context file with feedback (porch use)
--project-id <id>            Project ID for metrics (porch use)
--days <n>                   Stats: limit to last N days (default: 30)
--project <id>               Stats: filter by project ID
--last <n>                   Stats: show last N invocations
--json                       Stats: output as JSON

Review types (--type)

Type When to use
spec Review a specification for completeness
plan Review an implementation plan
impl Review code implementation
pr Review a pull request before merge
phase Phase-scoped review (builder context only)
integration Architect's integration review of a PR

Usage patterns

General query:

consult -m gemini --prompt "What's the best way to structure auth?"
consult -m codex --prompt-file review-checklist.md

Protocol review:

consult -m gemini --type spec --issue 42
consult -m codex --type plan --issue 42
consult -m claude --type integration --issue 42

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 5d ago First seen · 97 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 644632fc718a

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consult is a skill published in the GitHub repository cluesmith/ci-channel (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 898 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.

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