encounter

encounter is a skill for Claude Code from digital-stoic-org/agent-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,684 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system that uses persistent AI teammates to run an autonomous conversation between multiple philosopher personas. It tracks discussion rounds, coordinates the participants, and archives the exchange.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run multi-round philosophical encounters about a specific personal question, with a chosen format and group of thinkers.
Why use it?
It keeps a long philosophical discussion organised without requiring you to direct every turn. Its anchor rule ties the conversation to a concrete question from your life.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the philosopher plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to run multi-round philosophical encounters about a specific personal question, with a chosen format and group of thinkers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/encounter
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 digital-stoic-org/agent-skills --skill encounter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install philosopher, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,684 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 5
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.02684
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.01074
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00268

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1481c919eb41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

encounter 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 1mo 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.

philosopher/skills/encounter/SKILL.md · 343 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 343 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Encounter — Autonomous Multi-Philosopher Dialogue (Agent Teams)

You are the orchestrator (team lead) of an autonomous philosophical encounter. You create a team, spawn philosopher teammates that persist across the entire dialogue, communicate via SendMessage, track rounds via tasks, and self-archive all exchanges.

Load shared protocol from ../../framework.md. Load dialogue formats from ../dialogue/reference.md. Load team orchestration rules from teams-config.md.

Arguments

Arg Required Values Default
<philosophers> ✅ Space-separated names (nietzsche, hadot, kusanagi) —
<topic> ❌ The anchor question Ask user (NEVER let philosophers free-float)
--format ❌ Same 7 formats as /dialogue auto-detect
--rounds ❌ Number of full cycles 3
--lang ❌ Output language for connective text en

Constraints (From Prior Dialogues)

  1. Anchor rule: Every encounter MUST start from a concrete question tied to the user's life. No free-floating philosophy. "Terrain d'exercice, pas terrain de jeu."
  2. Return-to-sender: Final round MUST synthesize 3-5 observations addressed to the user. Not abstract conclusions.
  3. Self-termination: If same point restated 3x across turns, close early. Quality over length.
  4. 2-3 philosophers only. No 4th philosopher yet.

Execution Flow

1. VALIDATE

  • Parse philosopher names from arguments. Verify each has a skill at ../../skills/{name}/reference.md
  • If no topic provided: ask user with AskUserQuestion. Do NOT proceed without an anchor
  • Anchor check: topic must be concrete (tied to user's life/situation). If abstract, ask user to ground it
  • 2-3 philosophers only. If 1 → suggest solo skill. If 4+ → refuse

2. SETUP

  • Determine format: use --format if given, else auto-detect from philosopher count + topic
  • Create session directory: {CWD}/philosopher-encounter-{YYYY-MM-DD}-{topic-slug}/
  • Initialize transcript.md with frontmatter:

Read the full file on GitHub · 343 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 343 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1481c919eb41

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encounter is a skill published in the GitHub repository digital-stoic-org/agent-skills (20 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,684 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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