drillnow

drillnow is a skill for Claude Code from SoliEstre/EstreGenesis. It costs 85 tokens per session (960 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for tackling the single highest-priority blocked work item immediately. It examines the current task board, breaks the blocker into concrete parts, and tries available ways to remove it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select a blocked task, investigate its exact cause, try alternative routes or prerequisite work, start it if unblocked, or document why it cannot currently proceed.
Why use it?
It prevents the most important blocked task from sitting untouched while other work continues. It also distinguishes problems that can be solved locally from those requiring another person, an environment change, or time.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the constellation plugin — 10 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to select a blocked task, investigate its exact cause, try alternative routes or prerequisite work, start it if unblocked, or document why it cannot currently proceed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/soliestre/estregenesis/drillnow
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 SoliEstre/EstreGenesis --skill drillnow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SoliEstre/EstreGenesis

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install constellation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 960 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 $0.00085 $0.00960
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00480
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00096

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1c946396d189, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drillnow 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.

plugins/constellation/skills/drillnow/SKILL.md · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/drillnow — clear the top blocker, now

Where /roundnext sweeps the whole queue (breadth), /drillnow picks the single highest-priority blocked item and spends the turn actually trying to clear it (depth). A drill ends in exactly one of two states: the blocker is gone and the work has started, or the blocker is proven uncllearable right now and the queue is re-prioritized around that proof. "Still blocked, unchanged" is not a valid exit.

Procedure

1. Target selection — load board truth (board_state_get or state.json) and pick the highest-priority blocked: true planned item. Priority = board order unless a rationale says otherwise; skip items whose blocker is a user decision gate (those belong to the decisions panel, not to drilling — verify the panel entry exists, then take the next candidate). Announce the target in one line.

2. Blocker decomposition — restate the blocker as a concrete condition ("what exactly must become true?"), then split it into parts by who/what can move each: this-side-doable / other-party / environment / time. Recorded blockReasons are often coarser than reality — decomposition routinely reveals a this-side-doable part nobody registered.

3. Active clearing attempts (in escalating order of cost; stop at first success):

  • Re-verify — is the blocker already gone? (The dependency may have shipped, the precondition met by unrelated work.)
  • This-side prerequisite work — execute the doable parts now (collect the evidence the gate requires, build the reproduction, prepare the artifact the other party is waiting on).
  • Alternative route — can the item proceed in a reduced or re-ordered form that does not touch the blocked part? (Partial start beats full wait when the partial result is durable.)
  • Tool/environment substitution — missing tool: try installing it, or find an equivalent (a manual procedure, a different binary, a degraded-but-sufficient mode).
  • Escalated nudge — for other-party blockers, move up the §13.20 ladder one tier (polite ping → explicit reminder + ETA query → hard ETA) with the drill's findings attached (what this side has prepared makes a nudge concrete instead of nagging).
  • §13.18 gates hold throughout: no loss/external-publish/genuine-fork action as a "clearing attempt" — those route to the decisions panel.

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 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. 9d ago First seen · 35 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 1c946396d189

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drillnow is a skill published in the GitHub repository SoliEstre/EstreGenesis (8 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 960 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.