hire

hire is a skill for Claude Code from skeggsguy/adventure-party. It costs 78 tokens per session (2,486 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup skill for adding another company's command-line coding tool to a project's team roles, or removing one. It checks that the tool works and records its command in the project's configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Assigning a foreign coding CLI to the fighter, cleric, or wizard role, checking its non-interactive write access, viewing role status, and releasing it.
Why use it?
It avoids relying on an untested external coding tool and preserves the chosen setup for later sessions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for aider.

Part of the party plugin — 3 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Assigning a foreign coding CLI to the fighter, cleric, or wizard role, checking its non-interactive write access, viewing role status, and releasing it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skeggsguy/adventure-party/hire
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 skeggsguy/adventure-party --skill hire
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skeggsguy/adventure-party

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install party, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,486 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 $0.00078 $0.02486
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01243
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00497
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00249

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4b36eb186e40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hire 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 11d 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/hire/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hire

A hireling is a foreign coding CLI — another vendor's command-line coding tool, on the user's own subscription — standing in for a party member. This skill hires one into a role or releases it. It ships no code and runs no quest: it proves a command works, then records it in .claude/party.json, where the muster rule reads it in every later session.

Hiring is standing configuration, not a one-off summons. Once fighter is hired out, every muster of fighter runs through that command until the user releases it — and both directions are one command.

The Guide is never hireable; it is the session the user is talking to. The three hireable roles are fighter, cleric and wizard.

No arguments — status

Read .claude/party.json if it exists. Most projects won't have one; that is not an error and is not the moment to create it. Report one line per role — hired to what, or the party's own member — and name both commands: /party:hire <role> <cli> to hire, /party:hire <role> to release. A bare /party:hire then starts the hire flow below with both gaps to fill, in one clickable interaction; if the user asked only for status, stop after the report.

/party:hire <role> <cli> — hire

Work in this order, stopping at the first step that fails. Each step exists to make a later, more expensive failure impossible.

  1. Fill the gaps with choices. The full /party:hire <role> <cli> form still works, and an argument already supplied skips the question it answers. Put every missing choice to the user as a clickable question with options, never a free-typed prompt.

    A role outside fighter, cleric and wizard, including the Guide, can't be hired: if one was supplied, say so plainly and stop. When both role and CLI are missing, put both questions in the same clickable interaction; the role options are fighter, cleric and wizard.

    For a missing CLI, run command -v for this short alphabetical list of coding-CLI binary names: aider, codex, copilot, cursor-agent, gemini, opencode. Offer only the names the sweep actually finds, alphabetically, plus Other; attach no vendor descriptions and do not rank them. A name that is stale or absent simply never appears. Other accepts a name or full path the sweep missed; if nothing is found, it is the only CLI option.

  2. Find the binary and confirm what it is. Run command -v <cli>. Not found ends it — offer to take a full path instead. Then run its version flag and show the user the output. A name on PATH proves nothing about what answers to it: on Windows, bash is the WSL shim and convert is a filesystem tool, and command -v finds both happily.

  3. Probe how to run it. Read the CLI's own help output and settle the four things that matter — how to run a single prompt non-interactively (no TUI, no REPL, exits when done), how to grant it write access to files, how to select a model on the command line, and how to set reasoning effort if the CLI has that knob.

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 11d ago First seen · 193 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 4b36eb186e40

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hire is a skill published in the GitHub repository skeggsguy/adventure-party (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,486 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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