consult-setup

consult-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cogni-work/insight-wave. It costs 139 tokens per session (2,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup process for starting a structured consulting engagement, including its desired outcome, research base, and working folders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when beginning consulting work for a client or topic, while avoiding duplicate engagements that already exist.
Why use it?
It prevents later consulting work from lacking a shared project structure or a place to store accumulated research.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the cogni-consult plugin — 9 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook 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/cogni-work/insight-wave/consult-setup
Any agent
npx skills add cogni-work/insight-wave --skill consult-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cogni-work/insight-wave

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cogni-consult, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,093 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 $0.00139 $0.02093
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01046
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00419
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00209

Measured today against content hash 845dee990cb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consult-setup 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 today.

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.

cogni-consult/skills/consult-setup/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engagement Setup

Initialize a cogni-consult engagement: frame the desired outcome with the consultant, scaffold the action-fields-WBS directory structure, bind the one cogni-knowledge base the whole engagement compounds research into, and register the engagement for cross-session discovery. This is the entry point — without it, no later skill has a project to write to.

Setup deliberately stays light: it captures the outcome and the research spine, nothing more. The SMART key question, the five scoping dimensions, and the 3-6 action fields are consult-scope's job; the two default advisor personas (consulting-partner, project-manager) now ship at scaffold so personas/ is never empty, while engagement-specific scope-seeded stakeholder personas still come from consult-personas; deliverables emerge inside action fields. If an engagement already exists for this client/topic, do not create a duplicate — dispatch Skill("cogni-consult:consult-resume") to re-enter it.

Workflow

0. Resolve the Interaction Language

Before any user-facing output, resolve the interaction language — the workspace default, overridden by the user's message language — per $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/interaction-language.md, which owns the resolution ladder. Conduct the entire conversation in the resolved language. It is independent of the engagement's language field, which is the deliverable axis. This contract holds on the default path: it does not depend on an output style being active.

The description of a Bash tool call is rendered to the consultant, so it is user copy — write it in the interaction language, outcome-shaped, at most 6 words, with no script, file, or skill names, and never derived from the script's filename or header comment. Worked pair: Discover cogni-consult engagementsLaufende Engagements holen. Section (f) of the canonical ecosystem register owns these five constraints — edit them there first, then mirror into $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/user-facing-output.md and here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. today Changed · +5 lines 845dee990cb3
  2. 5d ago First seen · 126 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A 16821cfda42a

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consult-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository cogni-work/insight-wave (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 2,093 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.