pocket-pitching

pocket-pitching is a skill for Claude Code from rfxlamia/pocketto. It costs 109 tokens per session (2,519 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. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the pocketto plugin — 16 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 16 skills.

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,519 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 $0.00109 $0.02519
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.01008
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00252

Measured 15d ago against content hash e743cb00b916, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 15d 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 before making project-specific claims, picks 3-5 brainstorming methods based on problem type, runs them with independent advisor curation, investigates technical unknowns that could change the approach, then produces a pitch exploration doc with a problem statement and 2-3 approach directions.

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

Start from the user's request. Use clear instructions, corrections, and approvals already given; do not ask the user to repeat them or select a numbered option. Ask only when an unanswered product decision or fact would materially change the exploration. Otherwise, inspect available context, proceed, and label any assumption that affects the result.

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.

Operating Rules

  • Use project evidence. Scan the project before making project-specific claims. If the user already gave the topic, begin exploring it; do not restart intake with a generic greeting.
  • Confirm only new decisions. Restate the problem and continue when the summary preserves the user's meaning. Ask for confirmation only when your interpretation adds a consequential assumption or a product choice remains open. Treat the user's clear correction or approval as the answer.
  • Get independent curation. After all method results are visible, call advisor(). If it is unavailable or fails, use the advisor subagent fallback in references/advisor-brainstorm-protocol.md. Do not present your own synthesis as independent review.
  • Change approach when evidence stalls. For a technical unknown, try a distinct source or investigation mode when the first attempt does not answer it. A call count or retry limit is a cue to reassess, not a reason to stop. Record the evidence and carry any unresolved question into the brief and pocket-grinding.
  • Honor an authorized handoff. If the user asks to continue to pocket-grinding, invoke it and pass the brief and open questions. If they have not chosen what to do next, present the choices once and wait.

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. 15d ago Changed · +1 tokens per session e743cb00b916
  2. 1mo 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 (6 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 2,519 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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