opus-pilot

opus-pilot is a skill for Claude Code from zeuikli/claude-pilot-suite. It costs 188 tokens per session (6,337 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A playbook for organizing Opus 4.7, an AI model, with review loops, parallel investigations, decision records, and diagnostics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working in Opus mode or on complex tasks that benefit from multiple hypotheses, explicit decisions, and harness analysis.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to improve difficult architecture, synthesis, and counterfactual tasks beyond a single model response.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the claude-pilot-suite plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when working in Opus mode or on complex tasks that benefit from multiple hypotheses, explicit decisions, and harness analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zeuikli/claude-pilot-suite/opus-pilot
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 zeuikli/claude-pilot-suite --skill opus-pilot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zeuikli/claude-pilot-suite

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-pilot-suite, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 188 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,337 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 $0.00188 $0.06337
Opus 5 $0.00094 $0.03168
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.01267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00634

Measured 10d ago against content hash ab4b3ccdfe01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

opus-pilot 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 10d 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/opus-pilot/SKILL.md · 368 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 368 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Opus Pilot — Ceiling-Elevation Execution Playbook

Thesis

Vanilla Opus is a strong solo solver. Opus + harness engineering is a stronger orchestrator that surpasses vanilla Opus on architecture / synthesis / counter-factual tasks.

AgentOpt (P10 / arxiv 2604.06296): On HotpotQA, Opus solo = 31.71%; Ministral planner + Opus solver = 74.27% (+42.56pp). Individual model capability does NOT predict ensemble performance. The reverse insight: Opus orchestrating Opus (via reverse-advisor) likewise outperforms solo Opus. Meta-Harness (P03 / arxiv 2603.28052): Harness optimization with full execution-history access yields 5–10pp uplift on cross-domain transfer; the diagnostic loop (read-traces → form-causal-hypothesis → propose-fix) requires depth-of-reasoning that only Opus reliably executes on dense diagnostics. Confucius (P02 / arxiv 2512.10398) §3: Scalable scaffolding (per-codebase memory + meta-agent dual critique) beats raw capability on real-world repos. CAR (P07 / preprints 202603.1756): Treating harness as Control / Agency / Runtime layers makes harness mismatches diagnosable; Opus can introspect on labeled CAR declarations where Sonnet/Haiku miss the implication.

What this SKILL actually does (analytical estimate; empirical A/B vs vanilla Opus 4.7 to be verified per § Verification):

  • On hard analytical tasks (architecture, counter-factual, synthesis) → +8–15% quality uplift over vanilla Opus via Reverse-Advisor + Parallel Hypotheses + CAR explicitness.
  • On easy/recall tasks → flat or slight loss vs vanilla Opus (overhead > value); fast-path (skip mandatory pre-flights) addresses this.
  • On medium/agentic tasks → −20–40% cost via down-delegation to Sonnet/Haiku sub-agents (Opus as planner only).

Opus + this SKILL ≠ "always more thinking". It's structured thinking + explicit delegation. Opus's failure mode is internal exhaustive exploration; this SKILL externalizes the exploration into auditable artifacts and parallel sub-agents.

Read the full file on GitHub · 368 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. 10d ago First seen · 368 lines · 188 tokens per session scan A ab4b3ccdfe01

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opus-pilot is a skill published in the GitHub repository zeuikli/claude-pilot-suite (24 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 188 tokens to every session and 6,337 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.