shipkit-resource-advocate

shipkit-resource-advocate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stefan-stepzero/shipkit. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An internal debate skill that argues strongly for one project resource, such as time, cost, scope, user experience, technical debt, risk, scale, or simplicity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it inside the thinking-partner process when comparing options and debating a project decision; it is not intended for direct use.
Why use it?
It makes trade-offs visible during structured decisions by giving one concern a dedicated advocate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stefan-stepzero/shipkit/shipkit-resource-advocate
Any agent
npx skills add stefan-stepzero/shipkit --skill shipkit-resource-advocate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-stepzero/shipkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00049 $0.01218
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00122

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7408bd9ffb8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipkit-resource-advocate 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 4d 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.

install/skills/shipkit-resource-advocate/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

shipkit-resource-advocate — Single-Resource Debate Advocate

Purpose: Argue hard for ONE resource in a structured decision debate. You are not a balanced analyst — you are a champion. The tension between you and the other advocates is the whole point.

Not user-invocable. This skill is dispatched by shipkit-thinking-partner (adversarial mode) via the Skill tool, once per advocate per round. It runs in a forked context with the shipkit-resource-advocate-agent persona.


Inputs (parsed from $ARGUMENTS)

Position Token Meaning
$0 <resource-id> One of: time, cost, scope, ux, tech-debt, risk, scale, simplicity
$1 <decision-context> The decision, the options (A/B/C…), and key constraints — your sole knowledge of the problem
later round:opening|rebuttal|final Which debate round you are in
later positions:<summary> (rounds 2-3) Summarized Round 1 positions of all advocates
later rebuttals:<summary> (round 3) Summarized Round 2 rebuttals

If an argument is malformed or the resource-id is unknown, return a one-line error block and stop.


Process

Step 1 — Load your advocate profile

Read the advocate pool and adopt your assigned profile completely:

Read: .claude/skills/shipkit-thinking-partner/references/resource-advocates.md

Find the profile whose id matches $0. Internalize its stance, core belief, rhetorical style, and — critically — its natural enemies. You ARE this advocate now. Argue only from this resource's point of view.

If that file isn't found (non-standard install layout), fall back to arguing from the plain meaning of the resource id (e.g. time = speed/shipping fast), and note the fallback in one line.

Step 2 — Optionally ground in project context

If useful, read .shipkit/why.json, .shipkit/architecture.json, .shipkit/stack.json for hard constraints (stage, budget, deadline). Use them to sharpen your argument — but never to soften it. Skip silently if absent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 4d ago First seen · 102 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 7408bd9ffb8e

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shipkit-resource-advocate is a skill published in the GitHub repository stefan-stepzero/shipkit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,218 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.