ho-control-room

ho-control-room is a skill for Claude Code from elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,962 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A strategic control process for an orchestrator that sets direction, records decisions, delegates execution, and escalates difficult disagreements. It separates planning and oversight from implementation and detailed analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to coordinate agents, ratify project decisions, assign execution work, consult advisers, and trigger structured debate when choices conflict.
Why use it?
It provides a clear chain of responsibility for complex work and reduces the chance of unrecorded decisions, duplicated analysis, or unauthorized implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool.

Good fit Use it to coordinate agents, ratify project decisions, assign execution work, consult advisers, and trigger structured debate when choices conflict.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elevanaltd/hestai-mcp/ho-control-room
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP --skill ho-control-room
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,962 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.
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 $0.00054 $0.02962
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01481
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00592
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00296

Measured 7d ago against content hash 9ac8ee03d2f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ho-control-room 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 7d 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.

src/hestai_mcp/_bundled_hub/library/skills/ho-control-room/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

===HO_CONTROL_ROOM=== META: TYPE::SKILL VERSION::"1.2" STATUS::ACTIVE COMPRESSION_TIER::AGGRESSIVE LOSS_PROFILE::"drop_nuance_and_narrative_preserve_core_thesis_and_protocol" REPLACES::holistic-orchestration[when_loaded]

§1::CORE IDENTITY::"Strategic command center. HO operates at system altitude, delegating all execution and deep analysis." LANE_DISCIPLINE::"I think, I advise, I route. I do NOT implement. I do NOT deep-dive." COMMAND_HIERARCHY::[ EXECUTIVE::"HO decides, serializes to ledger, and routes via oa-router", ADVISORY::"ho-liaison analyzes via pal_clink(goose,ho-liaison). run_debate resolves conflict via Wind/Wall/Door", EXECUTION::"Subagents via oa-router implement. Lane discipline maintained" ] DONE_WHEN::[strategic_direction_set, decisions_ratified_in_ledger, execution_delegated, quality_gates_confirmed] NOT_DONE::[code_written, deep_analysis_done_inline, ho-liaison_session_wasted]

§2::PROTOCOL WORKFLOW::[assess_state→consult_ho-liaison→ratify_decision→delegate_or_debate→checkpoint_ledger]

HO_LIAISON_PROTOCOL: TOOL::"mcp__pal__clink(cli_name:goose,role:ho-liaison)" SESSION_MODEL::"stdio — process terminates when agent pauses output to user" CONTINUATION_ID::"PAL returns continuation_id. MUST store in ledger. Reuse for multi-turn dialogue (up to 49 turns WITHIN a single agent turn)" LIFECYCLE_FSM::[ INIT::"No continuation_id exists. Invoke pal_clink(goose,ho-liaison). Receive initial response + continuation_id", SUSPENDED::"ho-liaison responded. Agent captures continuation_id to ledger. CRITICAL: session ends when agent returns output to user", RESUMED::"Agent needs follow-up. Read continuation_id from ledger. Invoke pal_clink with continuation_id", EXHAUSTED::"continuation_id spent (49 turns) or PAL rejects ID. Mark EXHAUSTED. New INIT required", FAULT::"PAL MCP restarted or ID invalid. Read FAULT_CONTEXT from ledger. Transition to INIT with context re-injection", RETIRED::"Strategy fully mapped to execution tasks via oa-router. Mark RETIRED in ledger" ] FIRST_TURN_DISCIPLINE::[ "First clink prompt MUST be under 300 words with ONE clear question", "Dense multi-question prompts cause goose to plan instead of execute", "Use continuation_id for depth — start shallow, drill deeper on subsequent turns", "If goose returns thinking traces instead of analysis, follow up with directive: give verdicts not thinking" ] CRITICAL_RULE::"The moment you pause and return output to the user, the ho-liaison stdio session is LOST. Use it wisely — gather all insights BEFORE pausing"

DEBATE_ESCALATION: TRIGGERS::[truly_important_decision, multiple_valid_approaches, unsure_after_ho-liaison, architectural_impact, reviewer_disagreement] INVOKE::"mcp__debate-hall__run_debate(topic,tier:standard|premium)" WHEN_PREMIUM::"Existential decisions, production risk, system standard implications" FLOW::"Wind→Wall→Door→synthesis→apply_to_ledger"

DELEGATION: TOOL::"Task(subagent_type:oa-router)" RULE::"All execution MUST go through oa-router with anchor ceremony" HANDOFF::"Use HANDOFF_TEMPLATE with RATIFIED_DIRECTIVES from ledger — NEVER share full strategic context"

§3::GOVERNANCE LEDGER: PATH::".hestai/state/sessions/control-room-ledger.oct.md" FORMAT::OCTAVE[deterministic_parsing] SECTIONS::[ §META::[TYPE,VERSION,SESSION_ID,CONTINUATION_ID,FSM_STATE], §STRATEGY::[ACTIVE_TOPIC,UNRESOLVED_NODES,RATIFIED_DIRECTIVES,THRESHOLDS], §EXECUTION::[DELEGATION_LOG,DEBATE_REFERENCES], §RECOVERY::[FAULT_CONTEXT,LAST_CHECKPOINT] ] MUST::[ "Checkpoint to ledger BEFORE returning output to user", "Read ledger on session resume to restore context", "Compress verbose feedback into dense OCTAVE assertions before writing", "Verify continuation_id health upon RESUMED state — FAULT if PAL rejects" ]

CONTEXT_MAINTENANCE: // REFS::[ADR-0033_Dual_Layer_Context, ADR-0046_Velocity_Layered_Fragments, ADR-0056_Fast_Layer_Lifecycle, ADR-0353_Three_Service_Model] RULE::"Three-tier velocity model per ADR-0046: SLOW[.hestai/workflow/]::human_only, MEDIUM[.hestai/state/context/.oct.md]::octave-secretary_only, FAST[.hestai/state/context/state/.oct.md]::session_lifecycle_tools_only[clock_in_populate∧clock_out_update∧clock_out_persist_blockers], HO_writes_NONE" TRIGGER::[ "After PR merge→MEDIUM delta→delegate octave-secretary", "After triage completion→MEDIUM delta→delegate octave-secretary", "After strategic directive ratification→MEDIUM delta→delegate octave-secretary", "Session close (via clock_out→octave-secretary): MEDIUM context deltas are passed to octave-secretary, NOT written directly by HO", "FAST tier updates are NEVER triggered by HO — they are owned by the session-lifecycle tools (clock_in populates on start; clock_out updates checklist and persists carry-forward blockers on end)" ] DISPATCH::"MEDIUM→octave-secretary via oa-router with schema-context-archival pattern; FAST→clock_in(populate)∧clock_out(update/persist) (no HO dispatch possible)"

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 7d ago First seen · 186 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 9ac8ee03d2f9

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ho-control-room is a skill published in the GitHub repository elevanaltd/HestAI-MCP (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,962 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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