solutioning

solutioning is a skill for Claude Code from isvlasov/rageatc-oss. It costs 31 tokens per session (849 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for comparing possible technical approaches when a problem is clear but the solution is not. It weighs factors such as reversibility, simplicity, and the cost of choosing incorrectly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when evaluating designs, comparing implementation options, or choosing between alternative approaches.
Why use it?
It helps make a deliberate choice without overthinking small decisions or committing too early to expensive architecture.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rageatc-core-oss plugin — 24 skills, 6 agents 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/isvlasov/rageatc-oss/solutioning
Any agent
npx skills add isvlasov/rageatc-oss --skill solutioning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isvlasov/rageatc-oss

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rageatc-core-oss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 6 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 849 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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.00849
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00425
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00085

Measured 6d ago against content hash 02e5ee8a9830, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

solutioning 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.

plugins/rageatc-core-oss/skills/solutioning/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Solutioning

Facilitate choosing an approach when the problem is defined but the direction isn't. Explore options with the user, filter through simplicity, and record the decision for handoff to creating-briefs.

Skip when only one viable option exists, the user has already committed to an approach, the choice is purely preferential, or the problem itself is still unclear (understanding-the-ask first).

Workflow

Step 1 — Classify the decision

Ask: "How expensive would this be to reverse? If we try it and it doesn't work, can we go back?"

  • Reversible (two-way door) — file structure, naming, process experiments. Decide quickly at 70% confidence and course-correct as you learn. Watch for analysis paralysis.
  • Irreversible (one-way door) — core architecture, database selection, major dependency. Invest in understanding trade-offs before committing. Watch for premature commitment.

The classification sets the evaluation depth for everything below.

Step 2 — Establish the simplicity baseline

"What's the simplest thing that could possibly work? Do we need this now, or are we anticipating future needs?" The simplest viable option becomes the baseline every other option must beat.

  • YAGNI — "we might need X later" → "do we need X now? If not, add it when we do."
  • KISS — "option A is more capable but complex" → "does simpler option B solve the current problem? Then complexity needs justification."
  • Occam's Razor — prefer the option making the fewest assumptions about the future.

Step 3 — Generate options

The first option presented becomes the implicit default — challenge it deliberately: "We've discussed option A; what would option B look like?" "If we couldn't do that, what would we try instead?"

Stop at 2–4 meaningfully distinct options, or when the user confirms the main approaches are covered.

Step 4 — Compare

  • Reversible: relative comparison to the baseline — better (+), worse (−), or same (S) per criterion. "For implementation speed, is option B better, worse, or the same as the baseline? For maintainability?"
  • Irreversible: explicit pros and cons per option, grounded in current needs, concrete impacts, and real constraints.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 02e5ee8a9830

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solutioning is a skill published in the GitHub repository isvlasov/rageatc-oss (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 849 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.