vs-architect

vs-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dimkurilo/opencode-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,208 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for generating several different solution options with estimated probabilities, based on Verbalized Sampling, a research approach for producing varied model answers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare approaches, investigate possible bug causes, generate hypotheses or synthetic data, and choose a solution before detailed execution.
Why use it?
It helps when one obvious answer may be wrong, the cause of a problem is uncertain, or repeated prompts produce similar ideas.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/dimkurilo/opencode-skills/vs-architect
Any agent
npx skills add dimkurilo/opencode-skills --skill vs-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dimkurilo/opencode-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,208 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00073 $0.01208
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00604
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00121

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3c6f096a26e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vs-architect scanned grade A 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Verification:** VS analysis — user selected a relevant variant. Execution — test command (curl, test, run)
skills/vs-architect/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VS Architect — Agent Instructions

Two-Phase Workflow

PHASE 1: VS Analysis
  Distribution prompt → k variants with probabilities → user selects

PHASE 2: Execution Prompt
  Selected variant → detailed implementation prompt (no VS)

Step 0: Input Validation

  • Task context present (3+ facts: task/constraints/what was tried/files/prompt) → proceed. Any format is valid.
  • No input or < 15 words → ask: "Describe the task in detail: what needs to be done, constraints, what you've already tried."

PHASE 1: VS Analysis

Step 1: Classification

Classify the input along 4 axes (see references/vs-theory.md, Classification Axes section). Set UNKNOWN for missing axes.

Present classification to user and request confirmation before proceeding to Step 2:

TASK CLASSIFICATION:
- Complexity: [TRIVIAL | MODERATE | UNCERTAIN]
- Type: [CODE | STRATEGY | DIAGNOSTIC | CREATIVE | DATA]
- Variants: [FEW | MANY | SINGLE]
- Constraints: [YES | NO]

Confirm? If not — specify what to adjust.

Step 2: Pattern Selection

Apply Decision Tree from references/vs-theory.md. Check rules strictly top-to-bottom; first match wins.

Step 3: Execution Mode Selection

Apply Mode Mapping from references/vs-theory.md.

Additional rules:

  • Complex mode → first tool call must be read-only (Assumption Checkpoint)
  • 25+ tool calls → Business Outcome Verification pause
  • ≥2 external systems with unverified API contracts → Pro
  • Subagent task() calls → append 【思维模式要求】 injection

Step 4: VS Prompt Construction

Use the template from references/vs-theory.md (Prompt Templates section) for the selected pattern.

Parameters:

  • k (variant count): default 5. D → 5 (many rounds). B → 5. C → 3–5
  • Probability threshold: B → p < 0.10 (diversity) or p > 0.5 (stability)
  • Output format: headers + sections (human-readable), JSON (subagent)
  • Language: preserve user's input language
  • Do not use XML tags — headers are equally readable

PHASE 2: Execution Prompt

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

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. 3d ago First seen · 150 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 3c6f096a26e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vs-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository dimkurilo/opencode-skills (6 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,208 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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