Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cookys/autopilotnpx agentmods add skills/cookys/autopilot/think-tankWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cookys/autopilot/think-tank)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cookys/autopilot/think-tank"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cookys/autopilot/think-tank/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cookys/autopilot/think-tank"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cookys/autopilot/think-tank.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00120 | $0.02437 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00060 | $0.01218 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00487 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00244 |
Grade B, and why
think-tank scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
!`cat .claude/dispatch-config.md 2>/dev/null || true` How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Think Tank — Multi-Role Decision Brief
Routing overlap? If this intent better matches a sibling skill, redirect per references/routing-tiebreaks.md (prefer internal priority debate over external research).
Dispatch Chains (auto-injected)
!cat .claude/dispatch-config.md 2>/dev/null || true
6 specialized roles analyze the same topic in parallel, each producing independent perspectives, then cross-collide. Value lies in divergence, not consensus.
When to Use
| Trigger | Example |
|---|---|
| Product/strategy decisions | "Should we build X?" "A or B first?" |
| Scope decisions | "How far do we go?" "What's in Phase 1?" |
| Tradeoff analysis | "Performance vs features vs maintenance cost" |
| Risk assessment | "What's the blast radius of this change?" |
| CEO Agent hits strategic decision | CEO autonomously invokes autopilot:think-tank |
Not for: pure technical selection (X library vs Y) → use autopilot:survey.
Escalation path: If R1 reveals LOW consensus (roles fundamentally disagree) AND the decision is irreversible or high-stakes, the Decision Brief will recommend escalating to autopilot:think-tank-dialectic for Hegelian cross-examination. Do not escalate for medium decisions — dialectic is expensive and only justified when genuine tension exists on an irreversible choice.
Relationship to Other Skills
survey → external research (what does the industry do?)
think-tank → internal multi-perspective debate (what should WE do?) ← this skill
↓ (if LOW consensus + irreversible)
think-tank-dialectic → Hegelian resolution (how do we reconcile real tension?)
↓
ceo-agent → autonomous execution after decision
Chain: survey output → feed into think-tank → Decision Brief → (optional escalate to dialectic for irreversible LOW-consensus calls) → CEO executes.
Role Configuration
6 Standard Roles
| Role | voltagent subagent_type | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Architect | voltagent-qa-sec:architect-reviewer |
Technical feasibility, coupling, performance, tech debt |
| Product Director | voltagent-biz:product-manager |
Feature ROI, priority, scope, success metrics |
| UX Advocate | voltagent-biz:ux-researcher |
User experience, interaction flow, edge cases |
| QA Devil | voltagent-qa-sec:qa-expert |
Test coverage, regression risk, failure modes |
| Ops/SRE | voltagent-infra:sre-engineer |
Deploy complexity, monitoring, rollback, resource usage |
| Customer Advocate | voltagent-biz:customer-success-manager |
User needs, pain points, retention impact |
What ships with it
10 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.
- references/brief-template.md 3.1 KB
- references/dialectic-brief-template.md 10 KB
- references/dialectic-mode.md 17 KB
- references/dialectic-role-prompts.md 12 KB
- references/epistemic-diversity-scorecard.md 8.3 KB
- references/minority-report.md 5.9 KB
- references/model-routing.md 8.9 KB
- references/problem-restate-gate.md 4.2 KB
- references/role-prompts.md 4.9 KB
- references/silent-pre-check.md 6.5 KB
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.
- today Changed · +9 lines aa54ab18a911
- 3d ago Changed 601f03ef3f72
- 8d ago First seen · 171 lines · 120 tokens per session scan B da47777dfeec
think-tank is a skill published in the GitHub repository cookys/autopilot (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 2,437 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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