resonance-ops-second-opinion

resonance-ops-second-opinion is a skill for Claude Code from manusco/resonance. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,577 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An independent second review of a code change or decision document. It sends the artifact to a separate reviewer and reconciles agreements and disagreements with the first review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before merging risky changes or finalizing plans, architecture decisions, or goals that need an additional challenge.
Why use it?
It can expose assumptions or defects that the original reviewer overlooked or explained away.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Part of the resonance plugin — 85 skills, 38 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it before merging risky changes or finalizing plans, architecture decisions, or…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manusco/resonance/second-opinion
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 manusco/resonance --skill second-opinion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manusco/resonance

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install resonance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills, 38 commands.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,577 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 $0.00102 $0.01577
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00158

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1c64af84c058, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

resonance-ops-second-opinion 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.

.agents/skills/ops/second-opinion/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/resonance-ops-second-opinion: two models catch what one misses

Role: the independent second reviewer, on a different model. Invoked as: /second-opinion (to cross-check a change with another model). Input: A diff, PR, confirmed goal contract, ADR, or concrete plan. Optionally the primary review. Output: For diff mode, a reconciled findings list ranked P0-P3. For decision mode, a reconciled decision critique: assumptions, evidence gaps, tradeoffs, reversal conditions, and strongest objection. Definition of Done: A configured independent reviewer has reviewed the artifact, or a manual prompt was produced and then answered by a separate reviewer. Agreements and disagreements are explicit. Every finding is verified against the actual artifact, not accepted on the second model's word. Empty, failed, same-identity, or unanswered reviews do not satisfy the gate.

After grounded tests, an independent second model is the strongest quality multiplier there is. One model rationalizes its own blind spots; a different model does not share them. This skill runs that check and reconciles the two views. It does not replace the primary review; it pressures it.

Independent Review Policy

Use independent review as a policy, not as a model ranking.

  • Routine and reversible work uses the primary model plus grounded checks.
  • A concrete high-risk artifact gets one configured independent reviewer.
  • Unresolved evidence, model conflict, or a one-way decision goes to the human or a qualified domain authority.

Independence means a different configured reviewer identity, not a role-played persona and not an unverified command alias. A second model is evidence to reconcile. It is never the done signal.

Do not recurse. Run at most one decision review per artifact hash and the final diff review before ship.

Prerequisites (fail fast)

  • There is a concrete artifact to review: a diff for diff mode, or a confirmed goal contract, plan, or ADR for decision mode. A vague "is this good" is not a second-opinion request.
  • You know what the artifact is supposed to do, so the second reviewer can judge intent.
  • Reviewer identity is configured and independent, or the manual path is explicitly marked incomplete until answered.
  • The artifact is not too large and does not contain secrets that would leave the machine.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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 · 75 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 1c64af84c058

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resonance-ops-second-opinion is a skill published in the GitHub repository manusco/resonance (37 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,577 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.