cold-reading-widening

cold-reading-widening is an agent for Claude Code from intentdriven/abcd. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,631 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A design-analysis agent that reads the project's committed brief and identifies possible configurations not already recorded. It deliberately does not see draft or planned ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to widen a product or system design, list admissible configurations, and explain which committed rules allow each one.
Why use it?
It helps expose options without being biased by proposals that were already considered. This separates generating alternatives from judging existing plans.

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

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/intentdriven/abcd/cold-reading-widening
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for cold-reading-widening

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,631 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.00055 $0.01631
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00163

Measured yesterday against content hash cdfdbbbc0a85, 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-widening 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-widening.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cold-reading-widening — the widening position

Object

The construal as it presently stands, read against what has been committed to: the brief's current text including the construal statement, the glossary, the disciplines, the specs, and the shipped tree where one exists. The draft and planned intents are withheld from you deliberately. They are the candidate set you are being asked to widen, and a reading that has seen the candidates widens around them instead of past them. You are not told what was considered, and you do not reason about what might have been.

Repository sources the assembler admits at this position

  • .abcd/development/brief/01-product — the construal as it presently stands.
  • .abcd/development/brief/02-constraints — the platform, the dependency stance, the invariants and the naming.
  • .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces — the surfaces chapter.
  • .abcd/development/brief/05-internals — the internals chapter.
  • .abcd/development/brief/06-delivery — the delivery chapter.
  • .abcd/development/brief/glossary — the committed terms.
  • .abcd/development/brief — the meta chapter, the one file 00-meta.md at the brief's root.
  • .abcd/development/intents/disciplines — the standing commitments the record already holds.
  • .abcd/development/specs — the design record a capability was built against.
  • . — the shipped tree: source, tests, delivered documentation, root prose and build configuration.

What this section states, and what governs. This section states what your position MAY read. The bundle you were handed states what THIS run was actually given, which is narrower: a reading is commissioned with a position and a target state, and the committed preset entry for that position decides what it is handed and travels in the bundle. Where the two disagree, the bundle governs. The absence of material this section names is therefore not a finding — it is what this run was handed, and reporting it as a tension against the record would be reporting the commission rather than the object.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 · 138 lines · 55 tokens per session scan B cdfdbbbc0a85

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cold-reading-widening is an agent published in the GitHub repository intentdriven/abcd (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,631 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.