wicked-garden-archetype

wicked-garden-archetype is a skill for Claude Code from mikeparcewski/wicked-garden. It costs 222 tokens per session (1,830 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A workflow entry point for choosing a work-shape archetype, meaning a predefined way to organize a task from its first phase to its final deliverable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a request or routing step specifies an archetype, such as triage, explore, specify, or decide, and follow that archetype's phases.
Why use it?
Different tasks need different sequences: exploring options is not the same as validating requirements or recording a technical decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the wicked-garden plugin — 148 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when a request or routing step specifies an archetype, such as triage, explore, specify, or decide, and follow that archetype's phases.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add mikeparcewski/wicked-garden
Claude Code
/plugin install wicked-garden

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wicked-garden, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 148 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 13 hooks.

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Per session 222 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,830 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00222 $0.01830
Opus 5 $0.00111 $0.00915
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00183

Measured 9d ago against content hash 61c202097a5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

wicked-garden-archetype scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

allowed-tools: ["*"]
skills/archetype/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

wicked-garden-archetype

v11 entry point for work-shape archetypes. Each archetype is a complete unit with its own phase shape, produces, HITL discipline, and cost band. There is no universal pipeline.

When to use this skill

Invoke when:

  • A <wg archetype="X"> or <wg archetypes> system-reminder tag appears (emitted by the v11 prompt hook).
  • The user explicitly asks to "run the {archetype} archetype" or "do this as a {archetype}" workflow.
  • You're routing from triage to a real archetype after classifying the work.

Do not use this skill for:

  • Continuation tokens ("yes", "ok", "do it"). Those carry no new shape; keep going on the current archetype.
  • Simple-edit work (typos, single-line fixes, cosmetic changes). The v11 hook already suppresses archetype tags on simple-edit intent.

The archetypes

Archetype Phases Produces HITL
triage classify routing decision none
explore frame → diverge → converge option set / hypothesis continuous
specify elicit → structure → validate SMART acceptance criteria discrete:validate
decide brief → options → score → record ADR / decision artifact discrete:select
ship canary → ramp → full → soak rollout verdict / SLO snapshot discrete:ramp
review scope → assess → findings → remediate-or-accept verdict / remediation list hard:final-verdict
incident triage → investigate → mitigate → resolve → followup mitigation / RCA / followup hard:mitigate
build plan → implement → test → review shipped code / test report discrete:review
migrate plan → expand → backfill → cutover → contract shape change / rollback proof hard:cutover
modernize discover → extract → blueprint → transform → parity → cutover modernization blueprint / parity proof hard:cutover

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 9d ago First seen · 131 lines · 222 tokens per session scan B 61c202097a5a

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wicked-garden-archetype is a skill published in the GitHub repository mikeparcewski/wicked-garden (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 222 tokens to every session and 1,830 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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