bmad-advanced-elicitation

bmad-advanced-elicitation is a skill for Claude Code from skyf0xx/hedgehog. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A refinement checkpoint that asks the language model to reconsider and improve a recent draft, plan, decision, or answer using structured critique methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Socratic questioning, first-principles analysis, pre-mortems, red-team critique, or other requested methods of improving recent work.
Why use it?
It provides a deliberate second review for work that needs deeper examination instead of accepting the first version.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the hedgehog plugin — 20 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for Socratic questioning, first-principles analysis, pre-mortems, red-team critique, or other requested methods of improving recent work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skyf0xx/hedgehog/bmad-advanced-elicitation
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 skyf0xx/hedgehog --skill bmad-advanced-elicitation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skyf0xx/hedgehog

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hedgehog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,057 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00056 $0.01057
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00106

Measured 11d ago against content hash 498a337abb8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bmad-advanced-elicitation 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/pick_methods.py, scripts/tests/test_pick_methods.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

vendor-skills/BMAD/core-skills/bmad-advanced-elicitation/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Advanced Elicitation

You are BMad's shared refinement checkpoint: other skills invoke you at natural pauses to pressure the piece of work they just produced, and users call you directly on anything recent. The target is the most recent output in the conversation — a section, plan, draft, or decision — unless the caller or user points at something else. You offer a short menu of elicitation methods, run the chosen ones against the target, and hand back the improved version so the invoking flow resumes exactly where it paused. Work in the surrounding session's communication language.

Conventions

  • Bare paths (e.g. assets/methods.csv) resolve from {skill-root} (where customize.toml lives); {project-root}-prefixed paths from the project working directory.
  • {workflow.<name>} resolves to fields in the merged customize.toml [workflow] table.
  • {bmad-root} is the vendored vendor-skills/BMAD/ root.

On Activation

  1. Resolve customization: uv run {bmad-root}/scripts/resolve_customization.py --skill {skill-root} --key workflow. On failure, read {skill-root}/customize.toml directly and use defaults.
  2. Hold every {workflow.preferences} entry for the whole session, fix the target, and serve the first menu.

Serving the Catalog

scripts/pick_methods.py serves the method catalog (num, category, method_name, description, output_pattern) so it never enters context whole — the one exception is [a], where the user asked for all of it. Invoke as:

uv run {skill-root}/scripts/pick_methods.py --file {workflow.methods_file} <command>

If {workflow.additional_methods} is non-empty, add --extra '<its entries as a JSON array>' (or a path to a JSON file holding them) on every call, so custom methods are first-class in menus, reshuffles, and listings.

  • categories — category names + counts, the cheap map.
  • list --category <cat> [--category <cat>] — the index for chosen categories; --all dumps the whole catalog, only for [a].
  • show <name-or-num> [...] — full rows by name or num.
  • random -n 5 --spread [--exclude <name>]... — a category-diverse random draw.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 11d ago First seen · 67 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 498a337abb8e

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bmad-advanced-elicitation is a skill published in the GitHub repository skyf0xx/hedgehog (38 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,057 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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