ccc-debate

ccc-debate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KevinZai/commander. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,997 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured discussion between several coding agents that examine one design, plan, or code change from different viewpoints. They argue, critique one another, repeat the discussion when needed, and produce one final decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a technical design, implementation plan, or code diff before committing to it. The result is a combined verdict based on the surviving concerns.
Why use it?
It exposes objections that a single review may miss, including concerns about security, speed, maintainability, or product impact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside the plugin that ships it — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed.

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/kevinzai/commander/ccc-debate
Any agent
npx skills add KevinZai/commander --skill ccc-debate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KevinZai/commander

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,997 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 $0.00040 $0.01997
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00999
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00200

Measured 4d ago against content hash 554c82fd6864, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ccc-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 4d 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.

commander/cowork-plugin-codex/skills/ccc-debate/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

$ccc-debate — Adversarial Multi-Agent Debate (Antfooding)

Debate mode pits N agents against each other on a single design, plan, or diff. Each argues from a distinct lens (security, performance, maintainability, product, contrarian), critiques the others' positions, and the strongest objections survive. A judge synthesizes a single ruled verdict. This is antfooding — you stress-test your own work by adversarially eating it before reality does.

CC Commander · Debate Mode · Docs

Debate is the dialectic expression of the canonical workflow-first doctrine (commander/cowork-plugin/rules/workflow-first.md): delegate the arguing, keep the ruling. Built on the Workflow tool + dialectic-review + $ccc-fleet mode: "debate".


What debate is

$ccc-debate runs a structured adversarial loop:

  1. Fan out lenses — Claude spawns one agent per lens via the Workflow tool. Each independently reads the target and produces its strongest argument + objections.
  2. Cross-examine — agents critique each other's positions. Weak claims get torn down; survivors are the real issues. (Adversarial verification per workflow-first §1.)
  3. Iterate until resolved — rounds repeat until no new material objection survives, or a round cap is hit.
  4. Synthesize — a judge agent rules: blocking issues, accepted tradeoffs, and a 🟢/🟡/🔴 verdict — conclusions only, no raw transcript dumped into your context.

You keep the deciding. The agents do the arguing.


When to use debate

Use for:

  • Expensive-to-reverse design or architecture decisions
  • A diff or PR where silent flaws would be costly (auth, billing, migrations)
  • Plans worth stress-testing from FOR / AGAINST / Referee angles before committing
  • "Am I missing something?" gut-checks on a spec you're about to lock

Skip for:

  • Routine edits, single-file fixes, or anything with an obvious answer
  • Work where speed beats rigor — debate spends multiple agent passes
  • Cases where you have no clear target (no design doc, no diff) to argue about

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. 4d ago First seen · 173 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 554c82fd6864

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ccc-debate is a skill published in the GitHub repository KevinZai/commander (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,997 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.