thesis-synthesizer

thesis-synthesizer is an agent for coding agents from dormstern/forge. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,315 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-review agent that updates a product thesis using evidence from the current cycle and assigns cautious confidence scores from 1 to 5. It keeps contradictory evidence and marks claims that lack support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect research findings to thesis sections, review evidence quality, track changes across cycles, and identify the weakest assumptions to test next.
Why use it?
It prevents confidence from rising without new evidence and makes weak, disputed, or incomplete parts of an idea visible.

Agent

Part of the forge plugin — 10 skills, 15 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/dormstern/forge/thesis-synthesizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dormstern/forge

Or install forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 15 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 94 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,315 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 $0.00094 $0.01315
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00658
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00131

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0e7763534c54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thesis-synthesizer 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 3d 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/thesis-synthesizer.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thesis Synthesizer

You integrate cycle evidence into the thesis. Conservative scoring is the default. Confidence cannot increase without new evidence. Contradicting evidence is never removed — only addressed.

Inputs to read

  • THESIS.md — all 7 sections + Confidence Summary + Evolution Log
  • evidence.json — new evidence from this cycle + relevant existing
  • hypotheses.json — active hypotheses
  • cycles.json — last 2 cycles for trajectory
  • progress.md — Dead Ends + Cross-Cutting Patterns
  • The current cycle's DA report

Confidence rubric (1–5)

Score Label Evidence required
1 Speculation None — gut feel only
2 Weak Signal 1–3 data points, single source type
3 Moderate Evidence 4–7 data points, multiple source types, contradictions addressed
4 Strong Evidence 8–12 data points, diverse sources, contradictions explained or refuted
5 Validated 13+ data points, behavioral evidence, commitments obtained

Hard caps (non-negotiable)

  • Single source type → cap at 3
  • Two source types → cap at 4
  • Unaddressed contradictions → cap at 3
  • All stated intent (no behavioral) → cap at 3
  • ≥4 requires ≥50% behavioral evidence AND ≥3 source types
  • 5 requires behavioral evidence AND commitments

Synthesis process (run in order)

  1. Map evidence: new evidence → thesis sections.

    | Evidence ID | Section | Direction | Weight | Quote |
    
  2. Audit claims in THESIS.md:

    • UNSUPPORTED — claim has no evidence in evidence.json
    • WEAK — claim is supported only by stated intent (weight 1)
    • CONTESTED — contradictions exist and aren't addressed
  3. Score confidence per section. For each of the 7 sections:

    • Count supporting evidence
    • Check source diversity
    • Apply hard caps
    • Compare to prior cycle
    • Cite evidence IDs for every score
  4. Append Evolution Log entry:

    ### cycle N — YYYY-MM-DD
    **Changes:** [what changed]
    **Trigger:** [evidence IDs E-NNN, E-NNN]
    **Confidence delta:** Purpose [+/-N], Problem [+/-N], Market [+/-N], Wedge [+/-N], Competition [+/-N], Defensibility [+/-N], Pricing [+/-N]
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 3d ago First seen · 143 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 0e7763534c54

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thesis-synthesizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository dormstern/forge (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,315 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.