pitch

pitch is a skill for Claude Code from GiustoPiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace. It costs 72 tokens per session (696 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill that turns a feature or problem into a written Shape Up-style specification before coding. The specification records the problem, effort limit, proposed approach, boundaries, risks, and definition of done.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan non-trivial features, investigate missing or broken behavior, identify risky unknowns, and agree on completion criteria before implementation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent coding before the team agrees what to build and what to leave out. It also checks the existing codebase so the plan fits what is already there.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the agentic-engineering plugin — 6 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan non-trivial features, investigate missing or broken behavior, identify risky unknowns, and agree on completion criteria before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giustopiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace/pitch
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 GiustoPiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace --skill pitch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GiustoPiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for pitch

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 pitch

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 696 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 $0.00072 $0.00696
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00348
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00070

Measured 11d ago against content hash e6da84df15f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pitch 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 11d 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.

plugins/agentic-engineering/skills/pitch/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/pitch — shape the spec before the code

A pitch is the source of truth for a piece of work: it captures the problem, the appetite, the shaped solution, and the boundaries. Code is downstream. Never go prompt -> code for non-trivial work; shape first.

$ARGUMENTS is a short description of the feature/problem.

Process

  1. Interview the user with the AskUserQuestion tool. Skip obvious questions; dig into the hard parts they may not have considered:

    • The problem: what's broken / missing, for whom, why now.
    • Appetite: how much time/effort this is worth (this bounds the solution).
    • The shape of the solution at a high level (not implementation detail).
    • Explicit out-of-scope and hard no-gos.
    • Rabbit holes: the risky unknowns, and how to de-risk them.
    • "Done-when": the concrete checklist that closes the work. Ask in short rounds. One question at a time when possible.
  2. Ground it in the codebase (read-only). Delegate wide reading to the researcher subagent so the main context stays clean. Inventory what already exists ("substrate already present") so the pitch builds on it, not over it.

  3. Name the graph. State which of the five graphs this work touches (execution / memory / audit / capability / coordination — usually one primary) and which edges cross a human gate or an irreversible action (the severity×reversibility calls). If the work is a fan-out / audit / review / research job, sketch the nodes and edges — see the graph skill's GRAPH_MODEL.md. This makes the gate question explicit before any code, not after.

  4. Write the pitch to docs/pitches/<slug>.md using the structure in references/PITCH_TEMPLATE.md (including the Graph and Gated edges fields). The pitch must be self-contained: name the files/interfaces involved, state what's out of scope, and end with a "Done-when" checklist that includes an end-to-end verification.

  5. Stop for review. Show the pitch, ask for gaps/corrections. Do not start planning or coding until the user approves. Fix the shape, not the code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 11d ago First seen · 58 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A e6da84df15f7

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pitch is a skill published in the GitHub repository GiustoPiedimonte/agentic-engineering-marketplace (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 696 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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