get-a-second-model-opinion

Instructions for asking a different language model to review an important claim or decision. A second opinion here means feedback from another model family or provider, not asking the same model again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review uncertain claims, documentation, design decisions, or disagreements between possible explanations.
Why use it?
It helps expose blind spots when the answer cannot be checked by running a command or consulting system evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-code-engineering plugin — 47 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 hook 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/everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering/get-a-second-model-opinion
Any agent
npx skills add everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering --skill get-a-second-model-opinion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-code-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 hook.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,809 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 $0.00042 $0.01809
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00905
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00181

Measured 2d ago against content hash cd1e9105b8bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

get-a-second-model-opinion 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 2d 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/get-a-second-model-opinion/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Get a second model opinion

Asking yourself again is not a second opinion. Whatever made the first answer wrong is still in place for the second one: the same priors, the same reading of the same evidence, the same thing you failed to consider. People have this problem too, which is why review is done by somebody else.

So when a claim needs checking and no command can settle it, take it to a different model — a different family, a different provider, something with a different training history. Not the same one in a fresh session.

When to use this

  • A conclusion is load-bearing and nothing you can execute will confirm it
  • You are about to write something into long-lived documentation
  • A design decision hinges on a fact you are confident about but never verified
  • You have been reasoning about the same problem long enough to be attached to your explanation
  • Two of your own hypotheses fit the evidence equally well

What this can and cannot answer

The second model has no access to your systems. It cannot see your files, run your commands, reach your hosts or read your logs. That single fact decides the whole question taxonomy.

Ask it Do not ask it
Is this general claim true? Is this service running?
What is wrong with this reasoning? Does this file contain X?
What does this design assume that nobody stated? Did the change apply?
What is a second explanation for these symptoms? Which version is deployed?
Which of these two readings of this specification is right? Is this host reachable?
What is the failure mode nobody listed here? Why did this command fail on my machine?

🔴 Anything whose answer lives inside your environment is not a cross-check question. Sent anyway, you will get a confident, fluent, entirely invented answer — because a plausible answer is the only thing that can be produced when the real one is unreachable.

The rule of thumb: if the answer could be obtained by running something, run it. A cross-check is for the questions no command settles.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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. 2d ago First seen · 182 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A cd1e9105b8bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

get-a-second-model-opinion is a skill published in the GitHub repository everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,809 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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