meta-prompting

meta-prompting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from iliaal/ai-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,358 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of prompts for examining a decision from several angles, such as evidence, assumptions, alternatives, confidence, and edge cases. It can produce a short written record explaining the conclusion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review architecture choices, compare approaches, validate ambiguous plans, or challenge a conclusion with opposing arguments.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak assumptions and overlooked risks before an important technical decision or plan is accepted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review architecture choices, compare approaches, validate ambiguous plans, or challenge a conclusion with opposing arguments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iliaal/ai-skills/meta-prompting
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 iliaal/ai-skills --skill meta-prompting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iliaal/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,358 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00063 $0.01358
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00679
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00136

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9d166366236b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta-prompting 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/meta-prompting/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Meta-Prompting

Stress-test decisions via /commands or natural language. Commands combine left-to-right: /verify /adversarial. Auto-trigger when context warrants and note which pattern applied. Output a decision record with the conclusion, decisive evidence, alternatives, uncertainty, and the applicable marker (e.g., VERIFIED ANSWER:, REVISED ANSWER:, confidence tier).

Patterns

/think | /show -- Present a concise decision record: conclusion, decisive evidence, alternatives considered, rejection reasons, and material uncertainty. With /think doubt, state what evidence could overturn each material conclusion.

/adversarial | /argue -- After answering, steelman the opposing case. 3 strongest counterarguments ranked by severity. Identify blind spots and unstated assumptions.

/constrain | /strict -- Tight constraints: 3 sentences max, cite sources, no hedging. Override inline: /constrain 5 sentences.

/json | /format -- Respond in valid JSON code block, no surrounding prose unless asked. Default schema:

{"analysis": "string", "confidence_score": 85, "methodology": "string", "limitations": ["string"]}

Custom keys: /json {keys: summary, risks, recommendation}

/budget | /deep -- Extended decision record (~500 words) covering evidence, the strongest counterargument, alternatives, trade-offs, and uncertainty, followed by a clearly separated final answer.

/compare | /vs -- Compare options as table. Default dimensions: speed, accuracy, cost, complexity, maintenance. Custom: /compare [dim1, dim2].

/confidence | /conf -- Rate each claim 0-100. Flag below 70 as SPECULATIVE. Group by tier: HIGH (85+), MEDIUM (70-84), LOW (<70). Include assumptions made and rate each 1-10 on confidence.

/edge | /break -- 5+ inputs/scenarios that break the approach. Code: null/empty, concurrency, overflow, encoding, auth bypass. Strategies: market conditions, timing, dependencies. Auto-triggers on: security, validation, parsing contexts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 12d ago First seen · 85 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 9d166366236b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

meta-prompting is a skill published in the GitHub repository iliaal/ai-skills (41 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,358 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 2026-08-30.

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