consult

consult is a skill for Claude Code from raine/consult-llm. It costs 12 tokens per session (847 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for asking another language model for advice through the consult-llm command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps gather context from the codebase, select one or more available models, and send a user query to them, optionally using web mode or background execution.
Why use it?
It provides an additional viewpoint on a coding question when the main agent needs outside reasoning or comparison.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps gather context from the codebase, select one or more available…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raine/consult-llm/consult
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 847 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.
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 $0.00012 $0.00847
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00424
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00085

Measured 2d ago against content hash e4687c798064, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

consult 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 2d 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/consult/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Consult an external LLM with the user's query via the consult-llm CLI.

Load the consult-llm skill before invoking — 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`

Argument handling

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Check $ARGUMENTS for flags:

Model flags: any --<selector> from the Models block above selects that model (e.g. --gemini, --openai, --deepseek, --minimax). Repeat for multiple models — they run in parallel.

Translate model flags according to the loaded consult-llm skill's model-selection rules.

Mode flags:

  • --browser → use web mode (--web, copies prompt to clipboard)
  • --background → run the Bash call in background mode (run_in_background)

Strip all flags from the arguments to get the user query.

Workflow

0. Load consult-llm skill

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

1. Gather context

  • Use Glob/Grep to find relevant files.
  • Read key files to confirm relevance.
  • 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 consulting.
  • 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.
  • Select files that let reviewers understand the behavior being discussed and verify your assumptions.

2. Invoke

One or more --<selector> flags — single call with one -m <selector> per flag, plus -f <path> for each relevant file. Multiple selectors run in parallel and the CLI returns a combined response with per-model sections.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 2d ago Changed · +4 lines e4687c798064
  2. 7d ago First seen · 68 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 86fa18d65946

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consult is a skill published in the GitHub repository raine/consult-llm (132 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 847 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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