subscope-build-vs-buy

subscope-build-vs-buy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dancolta/subscope. It costs 79 tokens per session (380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Reddit research workflow for finding discussions where people compare building software internally with buying a hosted service. It scores those discussions for relevance to an offer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to surface buyer and authority signals from build-versus-buy discussions, ranked and linked in two result tables.
Why use it?
It helps find public conversations that reveal someone weighing a purchase or speaking with authority about that decision.

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 subscope plugin — 15 skills 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/dancolta/subscope/build-vs-buy
Any agent
npx skills add dancolta/subscope --skill build-vs-buy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dancolta/subscope

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install subscope, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 380 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 $0.00079 $0.00380
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00190
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00038

Measured 5d ago against content hash 246b4ee995e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subscope-build-vs-buy 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.

skills/build-vs-buy/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

/subscope-build-vs-buy (⚖️)

cd "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT" && PYTHONPATH=engine python3 -m subscope.cli fetch-score --mode build-vs-buy --candidates

The engine searches each configured sub for in-house-vs-SaaS debate language across the recent window via keyless Reddit search, then hands you the candidates. Cooling queue applies.

Judge every entry in candidates[] against the user's offer with the offer-relevance judge in skills/run/SKILL.md Step 3.5 (load offer.yml, example-pains.yml, brand-anchor.yml, keywords.yml once). A real build-vs-buy thread, where the OP is rationalizing the decision publicly, is a strong BUYER or AUTHORITY signal. Surface only BUYER and AUTHORITY verdicts, ranked BUYER first, each with a one-line reason, rendering each surfaced thread as a clickable markdown link [title](url) from the candidate's url verbatim. Render the result as the two-table layout in run Step 4 (a BUYER SIGNALS table, then an AUTHORITY PLAYS table). Cap at this mode's pattern_caps. On zero judged surfaces, print the empty-state ladder from run's "After completion". Notion Pattern = build-vs-buy, emoji prefix ⚖️.

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 · 16 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 246b4ee995e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subscope-build-vs-buy is a skill published in the GitHub repository dancolta/subscope (25 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 380 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 2026-08-30.

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