pocket-pitching

pocket-pitching is a skill for Claude Code from rfxlamia/pocketto. It costs 108 tokens per session (2,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A problem-exploration skill for turning a vague software idea into a clearer problem statement and a few possible approaches before detailed planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for rough feature ideas, open-ended technical questions, and early discussions that need brainstorming, optional technical investigation, and directional proposals.
Why use it?
It helps avoid choosing a solution too early by first exploring the problem, then narrowing the options.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pocketto plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for rough feature ideas, open-ended technical questions, and early discussions that need brainstorming, optional technical investigation, and directional proposals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rfxlamia/pocketto/pocket-pitching
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 rfxlamia/pocketto --skill pocket-pitching
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rfxlamia/pocketto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pocketto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,004 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 $0.00108 $0.02004
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.01002
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00200

Measured 9d ago against content hash 27a3b4d4f216, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pocket-pitching 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 9d 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/pocket-pitching/SKILL.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pocket Pitching

Pre-grinding problem exploration. Scans project context silently, picks 3-5 brainstorming methods based on problem type, runs them with LLM-to-LLM advisor curation, optionally runs a technical spike, then produces a pitch exploration doc with problem statement and 2-3 approach directions.

Core principle: Diverge first, converge second. Never propose solutions until the problem is fully explored.

When to Use

Trigger when:

  • Problem is vague, unformed, or needs exploration before spec-writing
  • User says "pitch", "explore", "I have a rough idea", "help me think through this"
  • Starting a new feature with no clear direction

Do NOT use:

  • When problem is already clearly defined (use pocket-grinding)
  • When a spec already exists (use pocket-grinding or pocket-planning)
  • For "brainstorm" keyword — pocket-grinding owns that trigger

Boundary with pocket-grinding

pocket-pitching pocket-grinding
Explores the problem space Specifies the solution
Produces: directions (sync vs async, new module vs extension) Produces: concrete architecture + GWT scenarios
No GWT scenarios — just directional Full BDD spec with acceptance criteria
2-3 approach directions, no design Design proposals with scenarios-validated tradeoffs

When pitching output lands in docs/pocket/spec/, grinding reads it as INPUT context — not as a spec.

Hard Gates

GATE 0: PREFLIGHT MUST COMPLETE BEFORE GREETING USER.
        Scan project + git log silently. No output until greeting.

GATE 1: NO DIVERGE without problem confirmation.
        Phase 1 ends with user explicitly confirming the problem statement.
        Silence or vague approval is not confirmation.

GATE 2: ADVISOR CALL MANDATORY in Phase 2.
        Output ALL method results to conversation FIRST, then call advisor().
        Do not skip. Do not call advisor before outputting results.

GATE 3: SPIKE MUST COMPLETE before Phase 4 if triggered.
        Technical unknowns block convergence.

GATE 4: USER MUST APPROVE BRIEF before pocket-grinding is invoked.
        Present all 3 handoff options. Do not auto-invoke.

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 256 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 27a3b4d4f216

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pocket-pitching is a skill published in the GitHub repository rfxlamia/pocketto (5 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 2,004 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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