roast

roast is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement. It costs 98 tokens per session (1,857 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured adversarial review of an idea by five viewpoints, followed by one verdict: proceed, reshape, or stop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use /roast to pressure-test an idea, surface risks and blind spots, and identify the cheapest short-term experiment to reduce uncertainty.
Why use it?
It challenges assumptions before you invest significant time or money in a product, feature, business, or other plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the continuous-improvement plugin — 28 skills, 6 hooks shipped together

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/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/roast
Any agent
npx skills add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement --skill roast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install continuous-improvement, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,857 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 $0.00098 $0.01857
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00928
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00186

Measured 5d ago against content hash 93d23f4d510f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

roast 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 5d 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.

plugins/continuous-improvement/skills/roast/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/roast — Convene the council before you build

Claude's default is to agree with you. /roast is the opposite. Law 1 says research before executing — and the cheapest, most-skipped research is an honest adversarial read of the idea itself before any plan or code exists. This skill convenes a council of five independent persona agents who tear an idea apart and build it up from every angle, then a Judge synthesizes everything into one decisive verdict.

The council is adversarial on purpose. No persona is allowed to hedge or be polite. The point is to surface what you can't see because you're too close to it — and to do it in an hour, not after a month of building.

Adapted from the community /roast idea-council pattern and reshaped as a continuous-improvement-native Law 1 skill.

When to activate

  • Before you sink time or money into building something — a product, a feature, a business, a bet.
  • When you catch yourself (or the agent) agreeing with a plan that has never been attacked.
  • The user types /roast, "roast this idea", "convene the council", "pressure-test this", "stress-test this idea", "validate this business idea", or "give me a brutal second opinion".
  • A /proceed-with-the-recommendation walk is about to start but the premise underneath the recommendation list was never challenged.

Step 1: Get the brief

If $ARGUMENTS contains the idea, start there. Then ask a tight set of clarifying questions so the council judges something real. Ask only what hasn't already been provided — 3-4 questions max, in one batch:

  1. The idea in one or two sentences (what it is, what it does).
  2. Who it's for and how it makes money (the buyer + the price/model).
  3. Your edge — relevant skills, audience, or assets you already have.
  4. Constraints — budget, timeline, how fast you need the first dollar.

If the user says "just run it" or has already given you enough, skip the questions and proceed. Don't over-interrogate — one round, then convene.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 5d ago First seen · 109 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 93d23f4d510f

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roast is a skill published in the GitHub repository naimkatiman/continuous-improvement (7 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 1,857 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 2026-08-31.

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