ensemble-solving

ensemble-solving is a skill for Claude Code from mhattingpete/claude-skills-marketplace. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,050 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for producing several different solutions to a coding or design problem and choosing the best one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want options for an approach, need to compare designs, or face a problem with more than one reasonable solution.
Why use it?
It helps compare valid alternatives when architecture, implementation, or creative decisions have meaningful trade-offs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the engineering-workflow-plugin plugin — 5 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want options for an approach, need to compare designs, or face a problem with more than one reasonable solution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mhattingpete/claude-skills-marketplace/ensemble-solving
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 mhattingpete/claude-skills-marketplace --skill ensemble-solving
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhattingpete/claude-skills-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering-workflow-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,050 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 $0.00035 $0.01050
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00525
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00105

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6d64765beece, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ensemble-solving 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 12d 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.

engineering-workflow-plugin/skills/ensemble-solving/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ensemble Problem Solving

Generate multiple solutions in parallel by spawning 3 subagents with different approaches, then evaluate and select the best result.

When to Use

Activation phrases:

  • "Give me options for..."
  • "What's the best way to..."
  • "Explore different approaches..."
  • "I want to see alternatives..."
  • "Compare approaches for..."
  • "Which approach should I use..."

Good candidates:

  • Architecture decisions with trade-offs
  • Code generation with multiple valid implementations
  • API design with different philosophies
  • Naming, branding, documentation style
  • Refactoring strategies
  • Algorithm selection

Skip ensemble for:

  • Simple lookups or syntax questions
  • Single-cause bug fixes
  • File operations, git commands
  • Deterministic configuration changes
  • Tasks with one obvious solution

What It Does

  1. Analyzes the task to determine if ensemble approach is valuable
  2. Generates 3 distinct prompts using appropriate diversification strategy
  3. Spawns 3 parallel subagents to develop solutions independently
  4. Evaluates all solutions using weighted criteria
  5. Returns the best solution with explanation and alternatives summary

Approach

Step 1: Classify Task Type

Determine which category fits:

  • Code Generation: Functions, classes, APIs, algorithms
  • Architecture/Design: System design, data models, patterns
  • Creative: Writing, naming, documentation

Step 2: Invoke Ensemble Orchestrator

Task tool with:
- subagent_type: 'ensemble-orchestrator'
- description: 'Generate and evaluate 3 parallel solutions'
- prompt: [User's original task with full context]

The orchestrator handles:

  • Prompt diversification
  • Parallel execution
  • Solution evaluation
  • Winner selection

Step 3: Present Result

The orchestrator returns:

  • The winning solution (in full)
  • Evaluation scores for all 3 approaches
  • Why the winner was selected
  • When alternatives might be preferred

Diversification Strategies

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 167 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 6d64765beece

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ensemble-solving is a skill published in the GitHub repository mhattingpete/claude-skills-marketplace (671 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,050 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.

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