debate

debate is a skill for Claude Code from justnau1020/claude-os. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,260 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured discussion in which five agents examine a feature, system, or codebase from opposing viewpoints and a moderator writes a readiness report. It evaluates whether the current work is good enough, rather than implementing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess API security, onboarding, launch readiness, or another defined topic before deciding what to do next.
Why use it?
It exposes weaknesses and trade-offs that a single review may miss. Gathering constraints first also keeps the discussion aligned with decisions and limits already known.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to assess API security, onboarding, launch readiness, or another defined topic before deciding what to do next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justnau1020/claude-os/debate
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 justnau1020/claude-os --skill debate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/justnau1020/claude-os

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,260 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 $0.00043 $0.01260
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00126

Measured 10d ago against content hash 79a56da0654c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 10d 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/workflow/debate/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debate

Adversarial evaluation of the current state of a feature, system, or codebase area. Five agents argue from different angles, a moderator synthesizes a verdict. The output is a readiness report -- not a plan, not code.

Use this when you don't know if what you have is good enough.

Invocation

/debate [topic] [--scope "focus areas"] [--constraints "known constraints"]

Examples:

  • /debate "API security posture"
  • /debate "onboarding experience" --scope "auth, setup, first use"
  • /debate "launch readiness" --constraints "feature X is gated behind flag"

Pipeline

Phase 0: Constraints Gathering (Main + User)

Before spawning agents, main MUST:

  1. Ask the user for known constraints:
    • What's in scope for this review?
    • Any decisions already made that agents should respect?
    • Known limitations or trade-offs to evaluate against?
  2. Check memory for relevant project constraints
  3. Compile a constraints block:
CONSTRAINTS (non-negotiable):
- [constraint 1]
- [constraint 2]
DO NOT propose solutions that violate these constraints.

This prevents the #1 failure mode: agents recommending something already ruled out.

Phase 1: Debate (Parallel Agents)

Spawn 5 agents. The 4 debaters run in parallel. Moderator waits for all 4.

Agent Role Method
arch-critic Code auditor -- finds gaps, bugs, half-baked features Reads source code, tests, architecture docs
comp-critic Competitive benchmarker -- holds us to industry bar Web search for competitors, best practices
code-defender Argues readiness from actual code evidence Reads source code, test coverage, recent commits
industry-defender Argues competitive positioning from market context Web search for market context, user expectations
moderator Synthesizes all 4 reports into a verdict Receives reports via SendMessage, writes report

Agent prompt template for debaters:

You are [ROLE] in an adversarial debate about: [TOPIC]
Scope: [SCOPE]

CONSTRAINTS:
[constraints block]

Your job: [ATTACK gaps / DEFEND readiness] with EVIDENCE.
- Read the actual code, don't guess
- Cite specific files, functions, line numbers
- Compare against [competitors / best practices]
- Be brutal -- no hedging, no "it depends"

Send your report (max 50 lines) to the moderator agent when done.
Format:
## [Your Role] Report
### Key Findings (numbered, max 10)
### Verdict: [READY / NOT READY / CONDITIONAL]
### Evidence: [file:line citations]

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 10d ago First seen · 142 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 79a56da0654c

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debate is a skill published in the GitHub repository justnau1020/claude-os (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,260 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.

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