hex-discuss

hex-discuss is a skill for Claude Code from grimoire-rs/grimoire. It costs 86 tokens per session (5,773 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided conversation mode for thinking through a problem before deciding what to build or write. It asks follow-up questions, checks disputed facts in the background, and records what was agreed without creating a plan or changing files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a fuzzy feature, issue, or technical question, resume an earlier discussion, and capture the decisions made before planning begins.
Why use it?
It prevents a vague request from turning into premature implementation or planning. The discussion ends with a clear handoff to the next step.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to explore a fuzzy feature, issue, or technical question, resume an earlier discussion, and capture the decisions made before planning begins.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/grimoire-rs/grimoire/hex-discuss
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 grimoire-rs/grimoire --skill hex-discuss
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grimoire-rs/grimoire

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,773 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 $0.00086 $0.05773
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.02309
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.01155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00577

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6e6fd9034432, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hex-discuss 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 12d 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/hex-discuss/SKILL.md · 416 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 416 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hex-discuss — Pre-Plan Discussion Mode

hex-discuss talks a problem through before anything is decided: it elaborates the ask, argues with the answers, checks disputed facts in the background while the conversation keeps going, and keeps what was settled in a discussion artifact. It builds nothing and writes no plan, ADR, or spec — the run ends at a drain, the explicit handoff that closes the discussion and names the command to run next.

It is a hex skill, not a fifth orchestrator: no classify.md, no overlays.md, no tier-*.md, and no tier vocabulary of its own. The dispatcher/tier-file split is vacuous here, not deviated from — there are no tier files to dispatch to.

Shared contracts: protocol.md · workers.md · models.md · memory.md. If hex-core is not installed: grim add ghcr.io/michael-herwig/arcana/hex-core:latest.

Argument syntax

/hex-discuss <topic | path | slug>. Free text becomes intake slot 1 and is never re-asked; a path into the resolved discussions home, or the slug of an existing artifact, resumes that artifact (The discussion artifact).

Entry and exit

Entered only by explicit user invocation or by this skill's own description match on a user's discuss request — never self-triggered from another hex skill's flow (the hex-init precedent). The frontmatter leaves claude.disable-model-invocation unset: the description match is the entry path. Entry then resolves the discussion's home and either opens the existing artifact or writes the stub (The discussion artifact). Exit is only an explicit drain (Handoff) or an explicit user abort. There is no third exit: no turn budget, no idle timeout, no "this looks finished" self-exit. An abort leaves State: parked, re-enterable later under the same slug.

Read the full file on GitHub · 416 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago Changed 6e6fd9034432
  2. 21d ago Changed · +6 lines 0e085ed8aa41
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 410 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A e1b0e36ac846

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hex-discuss is a skill published in the GitHub repository grimoire-rs/grimoire (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 5,773 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-08.