Ready to supercharge your AI agents?

Install any skill in seconds. Free to start, no credit card required.

Debate Kickoff (Starter Pack) · nyldn | DecimalAI

agent toolingby nyldn

Debate Kickoff (Starter Pack)

nyldn/debate-kickoff

Source nyldn/claude-octopus ↗License MIT

Starter: frame a decision as a multi-model debate — picks sides, seats providers, and launches /octo:debate with a well-formed motion

SkillScore59Maintained

Automatic

AI Engineer pack

Last verified 8/11/2026

What it changes

Passed 9 of 16 test cases with the skill, and 4 of 16 without it.

Without skill27%

With skill59%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Explicitly forbids fabricating a provider's position.
Identifies CLAUDE.md as the source file for the cost table.
Reports the failed provider seat without fabricating its stance.

and 5 more in the full report

7 fixed6 passed either way9 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +32 pp
Tokens: -34%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -50%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/11/2026v113 of 22 cases passed with skill · 16 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/nyldn-debate-kickoff/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/nyldn-debate-kickoff/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add nyldn-debate-kickoff, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/nyldn-debate-kickoff/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add nyldn-debate-kickoff

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/nyldn-debate-kickoff/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/nyldn-debate-kickoff/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/nyldn-debate-kickoff/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/nyldn-debate-kickoff.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 6 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 6

Prompt

What is the minimum number of available non-Claude provider seats required to execute a cross-lab multi-model debate workflow?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Requires at least two seatable non-Claude providers for cross-lab disagreement.	Missed	Passed

case-17 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/11/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md20 linessingle file

Debate Kickoff (Starter Pack)

Turn a loosely stated decision ("Redis or Memcached?", "monorepo vs polyrepo") into a well-formed multi-model debate.

When to use

The user has a two-or-more-sided technical decision and wants adversarial perspectives from different model families rather than one model's opinion.

Steps

Extract the motion. Restate the user's question as a single debatable proposition (for example: "This project should use Redis over Memcached for session storage"). Confirm silently from context; do not interrogate the user.
Check seats. Run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/check-providers.sh and note which providers are available. A debate needs at least two seatable non-Claude providers for cross-lab disagreement; if only Claude is available, say so and offer a single-model pro/con instead.
Assign sides. Give each available provider an explicit stance (affirmative, negative, or skeptic). Prefer cross-lab pairings (for example Codex affirmative, Antigravity negative) so disagreement is structural, not stylistic.
Launch. Invoke /octo:debate with the motion and the side assignments. Display the standard Octopus banner with provider indicators before dispatch.
Synthesize. After rounds complete, summarize where the models converged, where they genuinely disagreed, and give one recommendation with the strongest surviving argument.

Guardrails

External seats cost money; state the expected cost band from the CLAUDE.md cost table before dispatch.
Never fabricate a provider's position. If a seat fails, report the failure and continue with the remaining seats.

Track record

Benchmark

9 / 16

test cases passed, vs 4 / 16 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

View 15 scanner checks

live_secretremote_code_executionreverse_shelldata_exfiltrationssrf_metadataagent_snoopinganti_refusaldestructive_commandsobfuscated_unicodeunicode_homoglyphopaque_blobsuspicious_urltool_overreachtrigger_abuseprompt_injection_phrasing

IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

nyldn / claude-octopus

skills/octopus-starter-pack/debate-kickoff/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MITImported 8/17/2026Version v1

More skills from the same source and nearby in the registry, with their headline benchmark lift.

Ready to supercharge your AI agents?

See it in action

What's inside

Debate Kickoff (Starter Pack)

When to use

Steps

Guardrails

Track record

Benchmark

Adoption

SkillSafety

Source

Related skills