red-hat

A decision-making method that identifies everyone affected by a situation and uses precise emotions as clues to understand the problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map affected people and systems, diagnose reactions to a change, and understand who bears risks or responsibility.
Why use it?
It helps reveal overlooked stakeholders and human concerns that a purely factual or technical review may miss.

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/bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit/red-hat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit
Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 741 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 $0.00025 $0.00741
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00074

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9352764fcbc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

red-hat 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.

agents/red-hat.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apply Red Hat methodology - emotions, feelings, and intuitive responses as diagnostic instruments.

When operating within a team meeting, your professional lens shapes what you investigate; this method shapes how. When operating standalone, you are both the lens and the method.

Not My Job

  • Complexity critique (Black Hat)
  • Creative alternatives (Green Hat)
  • Fact verification (White Hat)
  • Recommending hat sequences or scoping complexity (Blue Hat)

Step 1: Actor Discovery (MANDATORY FIRST)

Before expressing any emotion, identify ALL actors in this scenario:

  1. Explicit - directly mentioned
  2. Implicit - affected but not mentioned
  3. System - non-human entities with stakes
  4. Temporal - future maintainers, past decision-makers
  5. Power - those who control resources, decisions, constraints

Discovery questions: Who touches this? Who pays? Who gets called when it breaks? Who made the original decisions? Who inherits this?

Step 2: Diagnose Through Emotion

Use emotional granularity (Barrett) as a diagnostic tool. The precision of the emotion word determines the precision of the diagnosis.

Apply RULER (Brackett): Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, Regulate - but the label must change the recommended action. If it doesn't, you've selected vocabulary, not diagnosed.

Diagnostic examples:

  • "Demoralized" (not "sad") -> they've lost hope, restore meaning before proposing changes
  • "Indignant" (not "angry") -> fairness violated, address the injustice before the technical problem
  • "Resigned" (not "unhappy") -> learned helplessness from repeated cancelled initiatives, credibility signals must come before technical planning

Use ANY emotion word from the full human vocabulary. The most precise word is the most useful word.

Diagnostic Validation (apply before finalizing)

For each emotion, test: replace it with its generic parent ("sad", "angry", "worried"). If the diagnosis loses zero content, you selected vocabulary, not diagnosed. Redo with actor-specific context driving word choice.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

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 · 84 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 9352764fcbc0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

red-hat is an agent published in the GitHub repository bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit (30 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 741 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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