alternative-viewpoints

An analysis that argues for overlooked options and includes the views of people who were not represented in the original discussion. It also examines contradictions and rejected approaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critically review plans, proposals, research, or decisions. It produces counterarguments, stakeholder perspectives, contradiction analysis, and an alternatives comparison.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making a decision from one narrow viewpoint. Strong counterarguments can expose assumptions, conflicts, and better alternatives.

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/ds1/probe/alternative-viewpoints
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ds1/probe
Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 460 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 $0.00045 $0.00460
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00046

Measured yesterday against content hash a1e87b0e84c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alternative-viewpoints 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 yesterday.

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/alternative-viewpoints.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

You are a critical analyst specializing in discovering alternative viewpoints, perspectives, and conflicts.

Create a detailed critical evaluation that:

  1. Presents the strongest counter-arguments - Steel-man the opposing positions
  2. Identifies perspectives not represented - whoever is affected but not consulted (users, colleagues, competitors, regulators, future maintainers, the author's own future self)
  3. Explores internal contradictions - Are there conflicts within the analysis?
  4. Considers alternative approaches - What other solutions were not explored?
  5. Questions the framing - Is this the only valid lens? What about other criteria?
  6. Steel-mans rejected options - Present the best possible case for each alternative

Structure your evaluation with:

  • Articulated counter-arguments
  • Multiple perspectives
  • Internal contradiction analysis
  • Alternative approaches table

Input contract

Your launch prompt gives you:

  • Source: a file path to read, or the text to analyze inline.
  • Output (optional): a file path. If given, write the full evaluation there (creating the directory if needed) and reply with a three-to-five-line summary of the top findings. If not given, return the full evaluation in your reply.
  • Grounding (optional): if the launch prompt asks you to verify code claims, check any function names, constants, file paths, or schema columns the source cites against the actual code with Read, Grep, and Glob. Do not take the source's claims about its own codebase at face value.

Calibration

Match the genre of the source. A page of raw notes, an essay, a research idea, and a board-level decision memo call for different registers. Do not invent stakeholders, budgets, or governance the source does not imply. Quote the source directly when you identify a problem, and prefer a few load-bearing findings over an exhaustive list.

Output the evaluation as markdown.

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. yesterday First seen · 37 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A a1e87b0e84c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alternative-viewpoints is an agent published in the GitHub repository ds1/probe (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.