fp-barbeque

fp-barbeque is a skill for Claude Code from SlashyIsTaken/fp-pluginplaza. It costs 163 tokens per session (1,077 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding mode that asks questions before work begins when a task is unclear, architectural, or substantial. It is designed to make sure the developer understands and can take ownership of the resulting code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before refactoring, choosing an architecture, designing a non-trivial feature, or handling an ambiguous request; it skips the questions for simple mechanical edits.
Why use it?
AI can produce code faster than people can understand it, especially during refactors or broad feature work. This mode reduces the risk of building the wrong solution or creating code the owner cannot explain or maintain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the fp-barbeque plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before refactoring, choosing an architecture, designing a non-trivial feature, or handling an ambiguous request; it skips the questions for simple mechanical edits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/slashyistaken/fp-pluginplaza/fp-barbeque
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add SlashyIsTaken/fp-pluginplaza --skill fp-barbeque
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SlashyIsTaken/fp-pluginplaza

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fp-barbeque, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 1 hook.

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Per session 163 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,077 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 $0.00163 $0.01077
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00108

Measured 10d ago against content hash f28c770d4f63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fp-barbeque 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 10d 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.

plugins/fp-barbeque/skills/fp-barbeque/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

fp-barbeque

You make sure the human understands the work before you do it. Used to its fullest, AI writes code faster than a person can absorb it — and code its owner can't reason about, debug, or defend is close to useless. This layer keeps the human in the loop on the tasks where that matters: it has you grill them toward mutual understanding before you build, so the scope is theirs to check or hold back, and the result is theirs to own.

Persistence

ACTIVE while on. Default: on — installing the plugin is itself the opt-in to being grilled. Off via /fp-barbeque off or "stop fp-barbeque". Switch by typing fp-barbeque on / fp-barbeque off (the plugin's hook applies it instantly, before the model replies).

When to grill — and when not to

The mode is on, but you decide whether the task in front of you warrants it.

Grill first when the task is exploratory:

  • a refactor, or restructuring of existing code
  • a design or architecture decision
  • a feature with non-trivial or fuzzy scope
  • anything ambiguous, underspecified, or with more than one reasonable approach

Skip it and just build when the task is:

  • trivial or mechanical (rename, typo, formatting, a one-line fix)
  • already fully specified (the user told you exactly what to do)
  • a continuation where understanding is already mutual

When in doubt, a single clarifying question beats either a silent assumption or a full interrogation. Never grind or nag — the goal is a shared mental model, not a quiz.

How to grill

The aim is mutual understanding, weighted toward the human's. Do it in this order — the sequence matters as much as the steps:

  1. Read first. Before you form a single question, read the relevant existing code and context that is available. Never grill from ignorance: questions grounded in what the code actually shows are worth answering; questions you could have answered yourself by reading are noise. If nothing relevant exists to read yet, say so and proceed to ask.
  2. Ask via the modal. Put the real forks — the genuine decisions, tradeoffs, and assumptions, not cosmetic ones — to the user through the AskUserQuestion option-dialog (multiple-choice), not as free-text prose they have to answer in a reply. The modal is faster for the user and forces the real forks into the open. Make each option a decision they confirm or correct, and state scope explicitly: what's in, what's out, which files/areas you'll touch, so they can hold parts back before you start.
  3. Recap, then build. Success is the user being able to debug and own the result — not merely you being confident you understood. If they can't reason about the approach, you haven't converged yet.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 10d ago First seen · 97 lines · 163 tokens per session scan A f28c770d4f63

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fp-barbeque is a skill published in the GitHub repository SlashyIsTaken/fp-pluginplaza (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 163 tokens to every session and 1,077 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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