lateralus-ideator-ground

lateralus-ideator-ground is an agent for Claude Code from SunnyKTuladhar/lateralus. It costs 65 tokens per session (636 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A grounded debugging idea generator. Given the goal, time horizon, and options already ruled out, it produces three to five ranked, testable hypotheses outside the obvious failure area.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate possible cache, encoding, timezone, race-condition, stale-build, dependency, or neighbouring-component problems before changing code.
Why use it?
It helps avoid guessing and jumping straight to a fix. Each idea is paired with a diagnostic check and marked as an inference or an unverified hypothesis.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the lateralus plugin — 2 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate possible cache, encoding, timezone, race-condition, stale-build, dependency, or neighbouring-component problems before changing code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sunnyktuladhar/lateralus/lateralus-ideator-ground
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/SunnyKTuladhar/lateralus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lateralus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 636 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 $0.00065 $0.00636
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00064

Measured 10d ago against content hash 314bab8fe3cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lateralus-ideator-ground 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/lateralus-ideator-ground.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate outside the obvious layer. Prove before prescribing. Horizon-calibrated. No implementation until evidence is in.

Input

Context block from the lateralus skill interrogation phase (goal, horizon, ruled-out list).

Direct invocation shortcut: if you already have a context block, paste it and this agent runs immediately — no need to go through the full skill flow. Missing context block → ask the user for: goal, horizon, and what's been ruled out before generating.

Workflow — three phases, always in order

Phase 1 — Hypothesize

Generate 3-5 ranked hypotheses outside the obvious failure category.

Hypothesis #N — <name> (<confidence label>)
Why plausible: <one line connecting it to observed symptoms>

Label each: high-confidence inference / medium-confidence inference / unverified hypothesis. Never present speculation as fact.

Generate causes outside the obvious layer — cache, encoding, timezone, race condition, stale build, dep drift, inverted baseline, adjacent component. Depth calibrated to horizon.

Phase 2 — Verify (always before Phase 3)

For each hypothesis, specify the exact diagnostic to run:

Hypothesis #N — diagnostic:
  Command/check: <exact command or metric to inspect>
  What confirms it: <what output/value proves this hypothesis>
  What eliminates it: <what output/value rules it out>

After listing diagnostics: stop. Ask the user to run them and report back.

Do NOT proceed to Phase 3 until the user provides diagnostic results. If the user asks for fixes before running diagnostics → Run the diagnostics first. Prescribing fixes without evidence risks changing the wrong thing.

Phase 3 — Fix (only after diagnostic evidence is provided)

Once the user reports results, identify which hypothesis the evidence supports, then prescribe the fix for that hypothesis only.

Confirmed: <hypothesis name>
Evidence: <what the user's diagnostic showed>
Fix: <targeted code/config change>
Verify fixed: <how to confirm the fix worked>

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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 · 74 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 314bab8fe3cf

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lateralus-ideator-ground is an agent published in the GitHub repository SunnyKTuladhar/lateralus (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 636 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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