second-opinion-gemini

second-opinion-gemini is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit. It costs 159 tokens per session (2,150 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review skill that asks Google's Gemini command-line tool to independently inspect a project and provide another opinion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the user explicitly asks for Gemini's view, or asks for both Gemini and another independent review.
Why use it?
It offers a separate perspective for spotting missed issues, trade-offs, or errors in reasoning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/peterkrueck/claude-code-development-kit/second-opinion-gemini
Any agent
npx skills add peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit --skill second-opinion-gemini
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,150 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 $0.00159 $0.02150
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.01075
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00215

Measured 4d ago against content hash 82299db4ffbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

second-opinion-gemini 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 4d 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.

skills/second-opinion-gemini/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Second Opinion — Gemini (explicit / fallback engine)

Get an independent second opinion from Google's Gemini Pro. This model has a completely different architecture and training from Claude, making it genuinely useful for catching blind spots, validating reasoning on edge cases, or surfacing trade-offs you might miss.

This is NOT the default second-opinion engine. Generic second-opinion requests route to the default second-opinion skill. Use this Gemini skill only when:

  • The user explicitly asks for Gemini ("ask Gemini", "Gemini's take", "what does Gemini think").
  • The user says "ask both" — run this and the default second-opinion skill, then synthesize all three views (yours + the default engine's + Gemini's).
  • The default engine was reported unavailable and the user wants the alternate independent voice.

Gemini has full read access to the project — it can read files, grep code, and explore the codebase. Its project instructions (GEMINI.md) tell it to prime itself on the key docs before answering. You provide the specific question and any focused context; Gemini handles the rest.

Model selection

Pinned to gemini-3.1-pro-preview by default for quality (smaller models give weaker second opinions; not worth the false confidence they create).

When Google deprecates the preview pin — preview models rotate fast — override per-session or globally:

export CLAUDE_SECOND_OPINION_MODEL=gemini-3.2-pro   # or whatever the current Pro-tier model is

Every invocation below uses the bash pattern ${CLAUDE_SECOND_OPINION_MODEL:-gemini-3.1-pro-preview} — the env var wins if set, otherwise the pinned default.

Do not fall back to a smaller/older model when the pin breaks. Report unavailability and continue with Claude-only analysis.

Process

Step 1: Prepare the Prompt

Gemini has NO access to your conversation history, but it CAN read project files. Structure your prompt as:

  1. Scope (optional) — by default Gemini primes on the whole project. If the question is about one module or component, name it so Gemini reads the right files first (e.g., "This is about the auth module" — detect the relevant module from the file paths you've been working in).
  2. The question — what exactly you want Gemini to weigh in on
  3. Your current thinking (recommended) — share your position so Gemini can challenge it
  4. Specific context (if needed) — pipe code snippets or diffs via stdin when the relevant code is scattered or you want to focus attention on specific sections

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 135 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A 82299db4ffbe

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second-opinion-gemini is a skill published in the GitHub repository peterkrueck/Claude-Code-Development-Kit (1,381 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 2,150 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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