collab

collab is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from raine/consult-llm. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,540 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow where multiple language models build ideas together across several rounds, followed by a combined plan from the coding agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps brainstorm solutions with several models, organize the strongest ideas, and create a plan for the coding task.
Why use it?
It collects complementary suggestions and lets later ideas respond to earlier ones, which is useful for open-ended technical problems.

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/raine/consult-llm/collab
Any agent
npx skills add raine/consult-llm --skill collab
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raine/consult-llm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,540 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 $0.00029 $0.01540
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00770
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00154

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0f44af05baa4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

collab 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.

skills/collab/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Have multiple LLMs collaboratively brainstorm solutions, then synthesize the best ideas into a plan. The LLMs build on each other's ideas across rounds rather than critiquing positions.

Load the consult-llm skill before proceeding — it defines the invocation contract (stdin heredoc, flags, output format, multi-turn). Do not call the CLI without loading it first.

Available models

Selectors resolvable in this environment (depends on configured API keys):

!`consult-llm models`

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Model flags: any --<selector> from the Models block above selects a collaborator (e.g. --gemini, --openai, --deepseek). Repeat for multiple. Need at least two. Translate model flags and defaults according to the loaded consult-llm skill's model-selection rules.

Strip all flags from arguments to get the task description. Use the selector name as the label when presenting per-model output.

Phase 0: Load consult-llm Skill

Load it now. Follow its invocation contract for all CLI calls in this workflow.

Phase 1: Understand the Task (No Questions)

  1. Explore the codebase - use Glob, Grep, Read to understand:

    • Relevant files and their structure
    • Existing patterns and conventions
    • Dependencies and interfaces

    Before planning or consulting, do enough research to understand how the requested behavior actually works. Before starting, think about what resources would be useful to obtain first: relevant source files, tests, logs, generated files, config, examples, command output, external docs, or authoritative upstream source. Gather the cheapest useful evidence before forming a plan.

    Do not stop at the first plausible file, definition, setting, or example. Follow references, callers, related tests, and runtime usage until you can explain the current behavior and the likely impact of changing it.

  2. Ground external semantics before planning - understand the requested behavior in the real system, not just this repo

    • If the task depends on an external product, CLI, API, protocol, file format, or ecosystem convention, verify the relevant behavior using the cheapest authoritative evidence available: local binaries/flags, generated files, official docs, public source, package/library code, or web search.
    • Capture only decision-relevant facts that affect scope, acceptance criteria, compatibility, or implementation constraints.
    • Do not create a separate research artifact unless the evidence materially changes the plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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 · 161 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 0f44af05baa4

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collab is a skill published in the GitHub repository raine/consult-llm (132 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,540 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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