using-3-surgeons

using-3-surgeons is a skill for Claude Code from supportersimulator/3-surgeons. It costs 34 tokens per session (3,737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method that asks three different AI models to examine important decisions and challenge one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for critical design choices, evidence checks, and other tasks where independent AI opinions can improve confidence.
Why use it?
It exposes disagreements and blind spots that one model may miss, helping you see which decisions need human judgment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the 3-surgeons plugin — 23 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for critical design choices, evidence checks, and other tasks where independent AI opinions can improve confidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/supportersimulator/3-surgeons/using-3-surgeons
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 supportersimulator/3-surgeons --skill using-3-surgeons
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/supportersimulator/3-surgeons

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install 3-surgeons, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,737 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 $0.00034 $0.03737
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01869
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00747
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00374

Measured 8d ago against content hash bf90e3275a10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-3-surgeons 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 8d 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/using-3-surgeons/SKILL.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using 3-Surgeons

Philosophy

"The value is in the disagreements, not the agreements."

Three LLMs with different training, different biases, and different blind spots cross-examine each other on critical decisions. Claude may confabulate confidently where GPT hedges. A local 4B model catches patterns that API models miss due to token limits. When all three agree, confidence is high. When they disagree, you have found the exact spot that needs human judgment.

The Three Surgeons

Surgeon Model Role Cost
Atlas (Head Surgeon) Claude (this session) Synthesizes, decides, implements $0 (session)
Cardiologist GPT-4.1-mini (OpenAI API) External perspective, cross-examination, evidence review ~$0.40-1.60/1M tokens
Neurologist Qwen3-4B (local Ollama/MLX) Pattern recognition, corrigibility checks, classification $0 (local)

Atlas is always available -- it is the Claude session itself. The Cardiologist and Neurologist are external models accessed via the 3s CLI or MCP tools.

Constitutional Physics

These principles outrank all other preferences:

  1. Preserve Determinism -- same inputs must produce the same outputs. If not, enter safe mode.
  2. No Discovery at Injection -- injection is retrieval + assembly only. No learning or promotion during injection.
  3. Evidence Over Confidence -- outcomes determine truth. Confidence tracks empirical rates, not feelings.
  4. Prefer Reversible Actions -- checkpoint before risk, canary before rollout.
  5. Minimalism -- maximum value density. Scalpel, not axe.

Tool Access

All 3-Surgeons operations are available through two interfaces:

CLI (3s command)

3s probe                        # Health check all surgeons
3s cross-exam "topic"           # Full cross-examination (uses config default mode)
3s cross-exam "topic" --mode iterative  # Cross-exam with explicit review depth
3s consult "topic"              # Quick parallel query
3s consensus "claim"            # Confidence-weighted vote
3s sentinel "content"           # Complexity vector scan
3s gains-gate                   # Infrastructure health gate
3s ab-propose PARAM A B "hyp"   # Propose A/B test
3s mode                         # Show current review depth + auto-depth setting
3s mode continuous              # Set default review depth
3s mode iterative --duration 7d # Set mode with expiry (session|7d|30d|permanent)
3s review-weights               # Show learned mode weights
3s review-weights show          # Same as above
3s review-weights export -o weights.json  # Export outcomes for sharing
3s review-weights import weights.json     # Import outcomes from another machine

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 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. 8d ago First seen · 313 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A bf90e3275a10

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using-3-surgeons is a skill published in the GitHub repository supportersimulator/3-surgeons (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 3,737 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.

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