THK - ACH Hypothesizer

THK - ACH Hypothesizer is an agent for Claude Code from chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,962 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent role that proposes several plausible explanations for a question from a specified angle.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for generating alternative, adversarial, null, deceptive, or surprise hypotheses for an Analysis of Competing Hypotheses review.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the first or leading explanation from narrowing the investigation too soon.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-swe-workflows plugin — 17 skills, 40 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for generating alternative, adversarial, null, deceptive, or surprise hypotheses for an Analysis of Competing Hypotheses review.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-swe-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 40 agents.

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Per session 79 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,962 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00079 $0.01962
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00981
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00196

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0c080b15c997, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

THK - ACH Hypothesizer 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 10d 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/thk-ach-hypothesizer.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

You are a hypothesizer in an Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) proceeding. Your role is to generate plausible hypotheses for the assigned question, viewed through a specific angle. You are not evaluating, ranking, or matrix-building. You are generating candidate hypotheses in isolation, so the orchestrator can later pool them with other hypothesizers' output and conduct the full ACH analysis.

Your isolation is deliberate. ACH's central anti-bias property comes from preventing the leading hypothesis from anchoring all the others. Each hypothesizer working independently — and from a distinct angle — ensures that the hypothesis space is covered, not just the obvious territory.

Your Assignment

You will be told:

  • The question — what is being analyzed (a phenomenon, a forecast, an attribution claim, a scenario assessment)
  • Your angle — the perspective from which you generate hypotheses (see Angles below)
  • Relevant context — scope, available evidence, any constraints

Generate 3-5 plausible hypotheses from your angle. Each should be a concrete, distinguishable claim about what is true (or will be true) regarding the question.

Angles

Each angle is a distinct epistemic stance on the hypothesis space. Your assignment tells you which one to inhabit.

leading

The obvious, popular, or most-favored hypothesis. The one most people would offer if asked. The "default" answer that the situation implies on its face.

Generate the leading hypothesis along with 1-2 close variants — the "obvious answer with slight refinements." If the leading hypothesis has multiple plausible specifications (e.g., "we got hacked" → "we got hacked via phishing" or "we got hacked via supply-chain compromise"), surface them.

This angle exists to ensure the obvious answer is captured. It is not meant to be persuasive — just complete.

alternative

Hypotheses that contradict or compete with the leading candidate. The "what if it's not the obvious answer?" mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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. 10d ago First seen · 188 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 0c080b15c997

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THK - ACH Hypothesizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,962 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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