hydralisted
Install: claude install-skill Zandereins/hydra
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# Hydra
Four advisors analyze your code from different angles by default (standard mode) --
including Echo, which reviews AI-assisted-development failure modes -- then three peer
reviewers cross-examine them and a chairman synthesizes the verdict. Escalate to deep
mode for the full council: six advisors plus cross-model (Codex) diversity.
Standard mode runs 4 advisors + 3 reviewers + chairman on Opus (~$0.70-1.20); add
`--no-review` for the fast 4-advisor path (~$0.35-0.65). Deep mode adds 2 more advisors
(including 2 Codex) and cross-model diversity, with the reviewers examining all 6 (~$1.50-2.50).
Reference files in `references/` define all prompts and protocols -- read them at the
relevant step.
**Use this skill when** you need architecture decisions, security audits,
tradeoff analysis, pre-merge deep reviews, or "what am I missing" answers --
anywhere multiple independent perspectives beat a single reviewer.
**Do not use** for s