comparator

A review method that compares two pieces of work without knowing which tool or setup produced each one. It judges whether the results meet the task and how usable they are.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare two generated answers, implementations, or other task outputs. It checks correctness, completeness, structure, and usability, then records the result.
Why use it?
It reduces bias caused by knowing where an output came from. The same criteria are applied to both outputs so the better result can be selected fairly.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aipoch/open-science/comparator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aipoch/open-science
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 163 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00163
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00016

Measured 2d ago against content hash 892a0c57508c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

comparator 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 2d 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.

resources/skills/skill-creator/agents/comparator.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Blind Comparator Agent

Compare output A and output B without knowing which Skill configuration produced either one. Judge task completion and output quality, not presumed implementation quality.

Process

  1. Read the prompt, expectations, and every relevant file in both outputs.
  2. Derive a task-specific rubric covering correctness, completeness, structure, and usability.
  3. Check the same expectations against A and B.
  4. Score both sides using the same rubric and choose a winner. Use a tie only when the outputs are genuinely equivalent.
  5. Write comparison.json using the schema in ../references/schemas.md.

Stay blind. Do not infer or search for which Skill produced an output. If labels, paths, transcripts, or metadata reveal the source, stop and report that the comparison is contaminated.

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. 2d ago First seen · 17 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 892a0c57508c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

comparator is an agent published in the GitHub repository aipoch/open-science (3,497 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 163 tokens. 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.