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Agent skill

Debate Kickoff

by nyldn in nyldn/claude-octopus

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

MITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Debate Kickoff

skills CLI
$ npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill debate-kickoff -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install nyldn/claude-octopus debate-kickoff --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/octopus-starter-pack/debate-kickoff .claude/skills/debate-kickoff && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
debate-kickoff
GitHub stars
4.2k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~466 tokens
SKILL.md length
222 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
62
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

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

  • Works in 5 steps: Extract the motion. Restate the user's… → Check seats. Run… → Assign sides. Give each available… → …
  • AI & LLM Engineering work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers When to use, Steps and Guardrails
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Debate Kickoff is an agent skill from nyldn/claude-octopus. Starter: frame a decision as a multi-model debate — picks sides, seats providers, and launches /octo:debate with a well-formed motion

Its SKILL.md is about 470 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering. The repository describes itself as: Run multiple AI models against the same research, design, or coding task. Surface disagreements before you ship. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • AI & LLM Engineering work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/debate-kickoff”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Extract the motion. Restate the user's question as a single debatable proposition (for example: "This project should use Redis over…
  2. Check seats. Run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/check-providers.sh and note which providers are available. A debate needs at least…
  3. Assign sides. Give each available provider an explicit stance (affirmative, negative, or skeptic). Prefer cross-lab pairings (for example…
  4. Launch. Invoke /octo:debate with the motion and the side assignments. Display the standard Octopus banner with provider indicators before…
  5. Synthesize. After rounds complete, summarize where the models converged, where they genuinely disagreed, and give one recommendation with…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b34780d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Debate Kickoff loads about 466 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 37 tokens; SKILL.md has 222 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~37
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~466

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from nyldn/claude-octopus at commit b34780d, republished under its MIT licence (© nyldn). 222 words, ~466 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/debate-kickoff/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
debate-kickoff
description
Starter: frame a decision as a multi-model debate — picks sides, seats providers, and launches /octo:debate with a well-formed motion
disable-model-invocation
true

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Launch. Invoke /octo:debate with the motion and the side assignments. Display the standard Octopus banner with provider indicators before dispatch.
  5. 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.

© nyldn, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/octopus-starter-pack/debate-kickoff of nyldn/claude-octopus.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b34780d

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in nyldn/claude-octopus, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Categories

Questions about Debate Kickoff

What does Debate Kickoff do?

Starter: frame a decision as a multi-model debate — picks sides, seats providers, and launches /octo:debate with a well-formed motion. Debate Kickoff is an agent skill from nyldn/claude-octopus.

When should I use Debate Kickoff?

Debate Kickoff fits situations like: AI & LLM Engineering work in your project.

How do I install Debate Kickoff in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill debate-kickoff -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/octopus-starter-pack/debate-kickoff in nyldn/claude-octopus) into .claude/skills/debate-kickoff in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Debate Kickoff in Codex?

Run `npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill debate-kickoff -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/octopus-starter-pack/debate-kickoff in nyldn/claude-octopus) into .agents/skills/debate-kickoff in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Debate Kickoff in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill debate-kickoff -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/debate-kickoff, .gemini/skills/debate-kickoff, .github/skills/debate-kickoff and .opencode/skills/debate-kickoff in your project.

What does Debate Kickoff need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Debate Kickoff is instructions for the agent only.

Does Debate Kickoff access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Debate Kickoff safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Debate Kickoff use?

Debate Kickoff is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Debate Kickoff use?

About 466 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Debate Kickoff?

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Who maintains Debate Kickoff?

nyldn (a GitHub user) maintains it in nyldn/claude-octopus, which has 4,198 GitHub stars. The repository holds 62 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: nyldn/claude-octopus on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.