decision-debate

decision-debate is a skill for Claude Code from iamcxa/kc-claude-plugins. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,534 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured workflow for comparing two or more technical approaches using explicit trade-offs and decision criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate architecture, tools, or implementation options and decide which approach best fits the situation.
Why use it?
It helps reveal blind spots when the choice involves competing benefits rather than one obvious answer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the kc-team-ops plugin — 8 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to evaluate architecture, tools, or implementation options and decide which approach best fits the situation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add iamcxa/kc-claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install kc-team-ops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kc-team-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,534 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 $0.00036 $0.01534
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00767
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00153

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7f582518929b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decision-debate 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 6d 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.

kc-team-ops/skills/decision-debate/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decision Debate - Structured Approach Evaluation

Overview

Structured debate for technical decisions — eliminates confirmation bias and surfaces blind spots.

Announce: "I'm using the decision-debate skill to evaluate these approaches."

Setup:

  • Read → ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/decision-debate-reference.md
  • Read → ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/learned-patterns.md (Debate Patterns section — public, curated)
  • Read → ~/.claude/kc-plugins-config/learned-patterns-local/kc-team-ops.md (Debate Patterns section — local, raw; optional/may not exist yet)

Step 0: Triage

Before starting a debate, assess whether one is warranted.

Signal Action
Single clear criterion decides it (e.g., "does it re-render?") Answer directly — no debate
Well-known pattern with consensus best practice Answer directly, cite the pattern
User asks "which should I use" on a trivial choice Answer directly — debate is overkill
User's tool/framework has an opinionated default (e.g., RHF → uncontrolled) Answer directly, explain the default + edge cases
Genuine trade-offs with 2+ weighted criteria → Step 1 (debate)
Architectural decision with long-term consequences → Step 1 (debate)
User says "stress-test", "challenge", "devil's advocate" → Step 1 with Devil's Advocate variant

Rule: If you can answer confidently in <5 sentences with no trade-off tension, skip the debate. The skill exists for decisions where reasonable engineers disagree, not for knowledge questions.

Step 1: Frame

State clearly before proceeding:

  • Context: What problem are we solving?
  • Approaches: 2-4 options (if user provides only 1, generate the strongest alternative)
  • Criteria: What matters?

GATE: All three elements confirmed before Step 2. Missing criteria or alternatives → ask the user, do not infer.

Variant Selection

Variant Trigger Process
Quick Debate 2 approaches, ≤3 criteria, reversible decision 2 advocates, Main synthesizes (no evaluator)
Standard 2-3 approaches, multiple criteria, moderate impact 2-3 advocates + Staff Engineer evaluator
Deep Debate 3+ approaches OR security/perf/compliance implications Advocates + specialist reviewers + evaluator
Devil's Advocate User leans one way ("I'm going with X, but...") 1 strong contrarian + evaluator (see Devil's Advocate Rules below)

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 6d ago First seen · 127 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 7f582518929b

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decision-debate is a skill published in the GitHub repository iamcxa/kc-claude-plugins (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,534 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 2026-09-03.

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