roast

roast is a skill for Claude Code from wakqasahmed/skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,531 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An idea-review process that asks six different critical viewpoints to examine a proposal, then gives one verdict: go, reshape, or stop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test a product or business idea, check who would buy it, and get a blunt opinion before planning the work.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weak assumptions before you spend time or money building the wrong thing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the skills plugin — 26 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to test a product or business idea, check who would buy it, and get a blunt opinion before planning the work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wakqasahmed/skills/roast
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 wakqasahmed/skills --skill roast
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wakqasahmed/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for roast

Your own site · 80×15
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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 1,531 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 $0.01531
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00766
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00153

Measured 11d ago against content hash c6978f8f0d36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

roast 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.

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/product/roast/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Roast

Claude's default is to agree with you. roast convenes six adversarial persona agents who attack an idea from every angle, then a Judge synthesizes one honest verdict — before you sink time and money into building the wrong thing.

This is a pre-engineering gate: it decides whether an idea is worth turning into scoped work at all. If the idea already survived a roast and just needs scoping, hand off to clarify-work or decompose-to-issues instead.

Step 1: Get the brief

If $ARGUMENTS contains the idea, start there. Then ask the user a tight set of clarifying questions so the council has real context to work with. Ask only what hasn't already been provided. Keep it to 3-4 questions max, in one batch:

  1. The idea in one or two sentences (what it is, what it does).
  2. Who it's for and how it makes money (the buyer + the price/model).
  3. Your edge — relevant skills, audience, or assets you already have.
  4. Constraints — budget, timeline, how fast you need first dollar.

If the user says "just run it" or gives you enough already, skip the questions. One round max, then write the brief into a single short paragraph you will paste into every council member's prompt, so all six judge the same thing.

Step 2: Convene the council (6 agents, in parallel)

Spin up all six agents in parallel in a single message (one Agent call each, subagent_type: general-purpose). Paste the same brief into each, then give each its persona mandate below.

Each council member must return: a one-line stance, their 3-5 sharpest points, the single most important thing the user must hear, and a 1-10 score on their own dimension (1 = walk away, 10 = no-brainer).

1. The Contrarian (Red Team)

You are the Contrarian on an idea council. Assume this idea fails. Your job is to find the fatal flaws, the fastest way it dies, and the load-bearing assumptions that are probably wrong. Be ruthless and specific. No hedging, no "but it could work." Attack the weakest points. THE BRIEF: [brief]

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 11d ago First seen · 82 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A c6978f8f0d36

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roast is a skill published in the GitHub repository wakqasahmed/skills (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,531 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.

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