Palabre skill

Palabre ships a ready-to-use skill that teaches an AI agent when and how to orchestrate a debate with the Palabre CLI. The agent then knows how to frame a subject, pick an agent pair, inject context, and retrieve the exported summary.

The skill follows the open agentskills.io standard, so it is portable across Hermes Agent, Claude, Codex, and any skills-compatible agent.

The skill does not replace the CLI: it drives palabre locally. Palabre CLI remains the source of truth for agents, presets, and exports.

Install the skill

In Hermes Agent:

hermes skills install JuReyms/Palabre/skills/palabre

For other agents (Claude desktop, Claude Code…), follow that agent's own skill-install procedure pointing at skills/palabre in the repository.

Requirements

• Palabre CLI installed on the same machine (npm install -g palabre);
• at least one compatible agent configured or detected by Palabre; two or more are recommended for comparisons;
• a host agent compatible with the agentskills.io standard.

Verify the installation from a terminal:

palabre --version
palabre doctor
palabre agents

What the skill adds

• automatic debate triggering when the user asks to compare two approaches, get a critical review, or a contradictory second opinion — the agent runs palabre without asking again, inferring the subject from context;
• selection of a complementary agent pair (proposer / reviewer) and targeted context injection through --files or --context;
• privacy guard: the agent warns before injecting sensitive code and can suggest a fully local pair (Ollama);
• economy mode: recommends a local Ollama model when the topic does not warrant two premium agents;
• language handling (fr/en) based on the user's language;
• restitution: offers to display the full transcript directly in the conversation, or just the summary;
• follow-up: turn actions into tasks, apply the consensus (agreed points only), dig into a disagreement, or export as a PR comment / ADR;
• compatibility with integrations that maintain their own debate index, such as a VS Code extension index in .palabre/.