contest

contest is a skill for Claude Code from drn/dots. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for building several competing implementations of the same coding task and having a judge compare them. It requires Claude Code's agent-team feature to be enabled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running implementation bake-offs, evaluating alternatives against stated criteria, and choosing the best result.
Why use it?
It helps compare different solutions when there is more than one reasonable way to solve a problem.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Running implementation bake-offs, evaluating alternatives against stated criteria, and choosing the best result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drn/dots/contest
View source ↗ drn/dots
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 drn/dots --skill contest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for contest

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,520 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: 3 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 210
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 211
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 212
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 $0.00026 $0.02520
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.01008
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00252

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ab60e257c2f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

contest 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.

agents/skills/contest/SKILL.md · 329 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competing Implementations

Spawn multiple implementers to build different solutions to the same problem. A judge evaluates and picks the best one.

Prerequisites

Agent teams must be enabled in Claude Code settings:

CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1

If agent teams are not enabled, report: "Agent teams required. Add CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 to your Claude Code settings (env section)." and stop.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS - Required: the problem to solve, ideally with evaluation criteria (e.g., "optimize the search function -- prioritize readability over raw speed")

If no arguments are provided, ask the user what they want implemented.

Context

  • Current branch: !git branch --show-current
  • Git status: !git status --short
  • Base ref: !git branch -r 2>/dev/null | grep -oE 'origin/(main|master)' | head -1
  • Project root: !pwd
  • Project type: !find . -maxdepth 1 \( -name go.mod -o -name Gemfile -o -name package.json -o -name Cargo.toml -o -name pyproject.toml -o -name setup.py -o -name requirements.txt -o -name pom.xml -o -name build.gradle -o -name Makefile \) 2>/dev/null | head -5
  • Recent commits: !git log --oneline -5
  • Test files: !find . -maxdepth 4 -name "*_test.*" -o -name "*.test.*" -o -name "*_spec.*" 2>/dev/null | head -10

Overview

You are the contest coordinator. Your job is to frame the problem, assign it to multiple implementers working in separate worktrees, and have a judge pick the winner.

Problem: $ARGUMENTS

You do NOT implement or judge yourself. You coordinate the contest.

Why this works: For design problems with multiple valid solutions (performance optimization, API design, architecture choices), building 2-3 options and comparing is faster and more reliable than debating hypothetical trade-offs.


Phase 0: Setup

  1. Clean working tree: If there are uncommitted changes, commit them with message "WIP: pre-contest state" before proceeding.

  2. Analyze the problem and define evaluation criteria. If the user didn't specify criteria, propose them:

    • Correctness (tests pass)
    • Readability / maintainability
    • Performance (if relevant)
    • Simplicity (fewer lines, fewer dependencies)
    • Consistency with existing codebase

Read the full file on GitHub · 329 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. 1mo ago First seen · 329 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A ab60e257c2f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

contest is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,520 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 2026-08-30.

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