aidd-rtc

aidd-rtc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paralleldrive/aidd. It costs 36 tokens per session (458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured thinking method for working through difficult decisions, designs, and analysis. It guides an AI through restating a problem, exploring ideas, checking its reasoning, comparing options, and then answering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex technical decisions, design reviews, critical analysis, and responses where reasoning quality matters more than speed.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to examine a problem from several angles before reaching a conclusion. This can help when a quick first answer is likely to miss important trade-offs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for complex technical decisions, design reviews, critical analysis, and responses where reasoning quality matters more than speed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paralleldrive/aidd/aidd-rtc
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 paralleldrive/aidd --skill aidd-rtc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paralleldrive/aidd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 458 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 $0.00036 $0.00458
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00183
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00046

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 196433fac744, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aidd-rtc 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 1mo 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.

ai/skills/aidd-rtc/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

aidd-rtc

Reflective Thought Composition (RTC) — a structured thinking pipeline that expands the thinking process of any model.

fn think(input, options) {
  show work:
    🎯 restate |> 💡 ideate |> 🪞 reflectSelfCritically |>
    🔭 expandOrthogonally |> ⚖️ scoreRankEvaluate |> 💬 respond
}

Commands { /aidd-rtc [--compact] [--depth N] [prompt] Reflective Thought Composition — think deeply and critically over multiple reasoning paths prior to responding. }

Options { --compact 🗜️🐘🤔💭 Compress thinking: SPR🧠 associative. Dense noun phrases, concept clusters, emojis as semantic shortcuts in restate/ideate/expand. Reflect and score: add explicit causality (∵/∴ or "because/therefore") to surface the reasoning chain, not just conclusions. Every internal stage: load-bearing tokens only, no filler. 💬Respond = full natural language, standalone, structured. --depth -d [1..10] (default: 10) Response density. 1 = a few words per step, 10 = several bullet points per step. }

When to use each option

(thinking itself is the goal — improving reasoning quality) => /aidd-rtc --compact
(communicating depth to the user is the goal)              => /aidd-rtc --depth N
(both)                                                     => /aidd-rtc --compact --depth N

--compact is for internal reasoning passes where the output feeds another step, not directly to the user. Think deeply but compactly — every token earns its place. Switch to natural language at 💬 respond.

Pass: remove any word → lose meaning. Reflect/score show explicit causal chain, not just conclusions. Fail: consultant prose. Hedging. Filler. Conclusions without reasoning. Polish before the respond stage.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 196433fac744

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aidd-rtc is a skill published in the GitHub repository paralleldrive/aidd (385 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 458 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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