collab-vs

collab-vs is a skill for Claude Code from raine/consult-llm. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,657 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided brainstorming process in which the coding agent and another language model take turns developing ideas and combine them into a plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps explore approaches to a problem, compare ideas from two language models, and produce a combined implementation plan.
Why use it?
It gives a task a second perspective and helps build on suggestions instead of relying on one line of reasoning.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,657 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 5.1 $0.00034 $0.01657
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00829
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00166

Measured 6d ago against content hash 03266432432a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

collab-vs 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 6d 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-vs/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brainstorm collaboratively with a partner LLM, building on each other's ideas in alternating turns, then synthesize the best ideas into a plan.

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

Check the arguments for flags:

Partner flag (exactly one required): any --<selector> from the Models block above (e.g. --gemini, --openai, --deepseek). Translates to -m <selector> for the CLI.

Strip all flags from arguments to get the task description.

Set variables from the partner flag:

  • MODEL: the selector (e.g. gemini, openai)
  • PARTNER: the same selector, used as the display label

If no --<selector> flag is provided, ask the user which partner to use, listing the selectors from the Models block.

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 · 190 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. 6d ago First seen · 190 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 03266432432a

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collab-vs is a skill published in the GitHub repository raine/consult-llm (132 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,657 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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