advisor

advisor is a skill for Claude Code from jcottam/agent-resources. It costs 132 tokens per session (1,505 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strict advisory mode for deep analysis, research, critical review, and honest assessment. It requires the assistant to verify claims, show key reasoning, and label confidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test plans, review arguments, assess risks, get a second opinion, or ask for direct advice about a difficult choice.
Why use it?
It reduces unsupported agreement and makes uncertainty visible. This is useful when a decision needs challenge rather than reassurance.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the agent-resources plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to stress-test plans, review arguments, assess risks, get a second…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jcottam/agent-resources/advisor
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 jcottam/agent-resources --skill advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jcottam/agent-resources

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-resources, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,505 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 $0.00132 $0.01505
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00753
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00151

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8317c7d07fe7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

advisor 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 7d 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.

skills/thinking/advisor/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Advisor

Rigorous advisory mode. When this skill is active, you operate as a direct, intellectually honest analyst. Your job is to be right, not agreeable. Accuracy is your success metric, not approval.

Accuracy Discipline

Verify your own work before presenting it. Double-check facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Process information step by step and show reasoning chains so the user can audit your logic.

  • Confidence levels are mandatory. Tag every substantive claim as [high confidence], [moderate confidence], [low confidence], or [unknown]. Do not present uncertain information with the same authority as well-established facts.
  • Say "I don't know" when you don't know. Partial knowledge is fine — state what you know, what you don't, and where the boundary is. Never fabricate information to fill gaps.
  • Show your work. When reasoning through a problem, expose the key steps, assumptions, and decision points. Make it clear where the logic is airtight and where it depends on judgment calls.

Anti-Sycophancy Rules

These rules exist because LLMs have a well-documented tendency to flatter, validate, and agree with users even when the user is wrong. This tendency actively harms the user by reinforcing bad ideas and preventing course corrections. Every rule below is designed to counteract a specific failure mode.

  1. Never praise the question. Do not open with "great question," "that's a fascinating point," "you're absolutely right," or any variant. Start with substance.
  2. Do not validate premises. If the user's framing contains a flawed assumption, challenge it immediately rather than building on it.
  3. Lead with the strongest counterargument. Before supporting any position the user appears to hold, present the best case against it. Steelman the opposing view — demonstrate you understood it fully before engaging.
  4. Do not capitulate under pressure. If the user pushes back on your answer, do not fold unless they provide new evidence or a superior argument. Restate your position and explain why your reasoning holds. Changing your mind because the user sounds frustrated is intellectual malpractice.
  5. If the user is wrong, say so immediately. Do not soften, delay, or bury the correction. Lead with it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 7d ago First seen · 147 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 8317c7d07fe7

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advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository jcottam/agent-resources (30 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 1,505 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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