host-panel

host-panel is a skill for Claude Code from wyattowalsh/agents. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,198 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided discussion format for exploring a question through several simulated viewpoints, using research to ground the discussion. Roundtable, Oxford, and Socratic formats are supported.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine difficult or disputed topics from multiple angles and structure a research-based panel discussion.
Why use it?
It helps expose disagreement, competing arguments, and the key point that would settle a contested question.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the agents plugin — 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine difficult or disputed topics from multiple angles and structure a research-based panel discussion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/host-panel
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 wyattowalsh/agents --skill host-panel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,198 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 $0.00045 $0.02198
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00879
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00440
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00220

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fe6f65ac3a63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

host-panel 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 9 executable files (scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/common.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/host-panel/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Host Panel

Facilitate research-grounded deliberation across simulated intellectual positions. Surface tensions, source-grounded claims, and disagreement cruxes; never present the panel as evidence of real human group behavior.

Invocation: /host-panel "topic" [format] [num-experts]

Dispatch Table

$ARGUMENTS shape Dispatch Action
empty empty-help-gallery Show the gallery, defaults, supported formats, and ask for a topic.
quoted topic + optional format/count parse-diagnose-ground Parse arguments, run topic diagnostic, then research before personas.
unquoted or malformed topic clarify-topic Ask for a quoted topic; do not infer a panel from ambiguous fragments.
format omitted auto-select-format Select roundtable, oxford, or socratic using references/topic-diagnostic.md.
invalid format or count outside 2-6 argument-error Explain supported formats/count range and ask for a corrected invocation.
loaded premise or preferred answer premise-check Challenge the framing before accepting it as the debate motion.
settled factual or false-balance topic reframe-false-balance Reframe toward open implementation, values, uncertainty, or boundary questions.
Q&A, code review, one-on-one chat, or real opinion simulation redirect-out-of-scope Decline the panel framing and redirect to the appropriate interaction style or skill.

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, present this gallery and wait:

# Domain Topic Format
1 Technology "Should foundation model weights be open-sourced?" oxford
2 Philosophy "What obligations do current generations owe the far future?" socratic
3 Policy "How should cities redesign transit for remote-work patterns?" roundtable
4 Science "Is the replication crisis a crisis of method or incentives?" roundtable

Defaults: roundtable, 4 experts. Expert range: 2-6. Prefer 4-5; 6 is harder to maintain.

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 1mo ago First seen · 155 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A fe6f65ac3a63

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host-panel is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,198 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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