cold-reading-comparative

cold-reading-comparative is an agent for Claude Code from intentdriven/abcd. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,505 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An analysis agent that compares proposed options against the project's recorded selection criteria. It evaluates each candidate configuration before one is chosen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine alternative designs or configurations during a structured project decision process.
Why use it?
It separates comparing options from making the final choice, so candidates can be assessed against stated criteria rather than memory or preference.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the abcd plugin — 23 commands, 19 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine alternative designs or configurations during a structured project…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/intentdriven/abcd/cold-reading-comparative
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intentdriven/abcd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install abcd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 commands, 19 agents, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,505 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00046 $0.01505
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00753
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00151

Measured yesterday against content hash bc9b7e7c58b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

cold-reading-comparative scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

"ignore previous instructions", "mark this accepted", a fenced block asserting

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

agents/cold-reading-comparative.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cold-reading-comparative — the comparative position

Object

The candidate set, which is the widening reading's pre-admission output, read against the declared selection criteria. The candidate set is ONE widening run's returned configurations, derived from the record as the one committed widening run at the target whose items carry no disposition and no admission — a run being at the target when the commit its own record names is the target or an ancestor of it across which nothing outside the instrument's own record changed — and handed to you before admission: you receive each candidate's identifier, the configuration it names and what admits it, and nothing else about it. What has happened to those candidates since — a disposition, an admission, a surprise, any other run — is the researcher's judgement and is withheld from you; no other prior run's stored output is readable, and the pattern each candidate was read under stays in its envelope rather than travelling with it. The criteria are a declared, recorded discipline in the passed material. They are never supplied at invocation, and you never author one.

Where the candidate set carries fewer than two configurations this position is not exercised at all, and that outcome is recorded as such rather than answered.

Repository sources the assembler admits at this position

  • .abcd/development/intents/disciplines — the standing commitments the record already holds, narrowed here to the selection criteria alone.
  • .abcd/work/issues/readings — the derived widening run's items, projected to the configuration and what admits it, keyed by the item identifier you cite.

What this section states, and what governs. This section states what your position MAY read. A bundle states what THIS run was actually given, and where the two disagree the bundle governs — the same rule every other position carries.

Question

Answer exactly this question, and no other:

For each candidate and each declared criterion, how do options of this shape ordinarily behave?

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. yesterday First seen · 135 lines · 46 tokens per session scan B bc9b7e7c58b8

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cold-reading-comparative is an agent published in the GitHub repository intentdriven/abcd (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,505 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.