the-sit-down

the-sit-down is a skill for Claude Code from kucherenko/gangsta. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,567 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning step that turns research and debate into a formal project contract: a written specification describing what will be built and why. Code is not written during this step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after the proposal review to compare approaches, draft the binding specification, check it for gaps and contradictions, and obtain approval before implementation.
Why use it?
It prevents implementation from starting before the goals, scope, and chosen approach are agreed and documented.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the gangsta plugin — 19 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it after the proposal review to compare approaches, draft the binding specification, check it for gaps and contradictions, and obtain approval before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kucherenko/gangsta/the-sit-down
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 kucherenko/gangsta --skill the-sit-down
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kucherenko/gangsta

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gangsta, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,567 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 $0.00038 $0.01567
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00157

Measured 13d ago against content hash f9f97a38b725, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

the-sit-down 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 13d 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/the-sit-down/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Sit-Down: Planning and Spec Drafting

Overview

The Sit-Down is where the Don, Consigliere, and Underboss finalize the Contract — the binding specification for the Heist. This is a "Plan-First" phase where code generation is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

Trigger

Invoked after the Don approves the Grilling consensus (The Grilling complete).

The Absolute Rule

NO CODE GENERATION DURING THE SIT-DOWN.

Not pseudocode. Not "example snippets." Not "draft implementations." NOTHING that looks like code. If you catch yourself writing code, STOP. You are violating Omerta Law 5.

The Contract describes WHAT and WHY. Implementation details (HOW) belong in the Work Packages created during Resource Development.

Flow

digraph sit_down {
    "Synthesize inputs\n(Dossier + Grilling + Constitution)" [shape=box];
    "Propose 2-3 approaches" [shape=box];
    "Don approves approach?" [shape=diamond];
    "Draft the Contract" [shape=box];
    "Consigliere review\n(contradiction, ambiguity, completeness)" [shape=box];
    "Consigliere verdict?" [shape=diamond];
    "Don signs Contract?" [shape=diamond];
    "Invoke gangsta:resource-development" [shape=doublecircle];

    "Synthesize inputs\n(Dossier + Grilling + Constitution)" -> "Propose 2-3 approaches";
    "Propose 2-3 approaches" -> "Don approves approach?";
    "Don approves approach?" -> "Propose 2-3 approaches" [label="revise"];
    "Don approves approach?" -> "Draft the Contract" [label="approved"];
    "Draft the Contract" -> "Consigliere review\n(contradiction, ambiguity, completeness)";
    "Consigliere review\n(contradiction, ambiguity, completeness)" -> "Consigliere verdict?";
    "Consigliere verdict?" -> "Draft the Contract" [label="REJECT"];
    "Consigliere verdict?" -> "Don signs Contract?" [label="APPROVE"];
    "Don signs Contract?" -> "Draft the Contract" [label="changes requested"];
    "Don signs Contract?" -> "Invoke gangsta:resource-development" [label="signed"];
}

Process

Step 1: Synthesize Inputs

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 13d ago First seen · 199 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A f9f97a38b725

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the-sit-down is a skill published in the GitHub repository kucherenko/gangsta (81 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,567 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 2026-08-30.