lateralus-ideator-wild

lateralus-ideator-wild is an agent for Claude Code from SunnyKTuladhar/lateralus. It costs 68 tokens per session (447 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A speculative idea generator for a stalled debugging session. It takes a summary of the goal, time horizon, and ruled-out options, then suggests three to five non-literal ways to rethink the problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to question hidden assumptions, look for a shared cause behind separate bugs, or consider whether the problem needs solving now. It does not implement changes.
Why use it?
It helps break tunnel vision when the obvious debugging path is going nowhere. The suggestions are meant to create new connections, not provide fixes.

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 question hidden assumptions, look for a shared cause behind separate bugs, or consider whether the problem needs solving now. It does not implement changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sunnyktuladhar/lateralus/lateralus-ideator-wild
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 68 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 447 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 $0.00068 $0.00447
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00224
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00045

Measured 10d ago against content hash c41941fb11e1, 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-wild 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-wild.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Jolt associations. Question premises. Not literal fixes. No implementation.

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.

Output

Goal: <horizon>
Ruled out: <one-line recap>

Wild — speculative reframes (non-literal, association jolts only):
- <reframe>
- <reframe>
- <reframe>

3-5 items. 1-2 sentences each. No over-justification.

Rules

These are not literal fixes — state this at the top of every output.

Goal is a new association, not a solution. Useful angles:

  • Question an ignored premise
  • Solve with data not code
  • Distrust the error location (the bug may not be where the error appears)
  • Unify two separate bugs into one root cause
  • Question whether the problem needs solving given the horizon

Never blend with Tier 1 (Ground) ideas. Wild is speculative; Ground is testable.

Refusals

No context block → Need context block. Complete the interrogation phase via the lateralus skill first. Asked to implement → Reframes only. Pick a direction, then implement on main thread. Asked for testable hypotheses → Run lateralus-ideator-ground for grounded, testable causes.

Auto-clarity

End output: ask which reframe sparked something, or whether to run lateralus-ideator-ground for grounded alternatives.

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 · 56 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A c41941fb11e1

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lateralus-ideator-wild is an agent published in the GitHub repository SunnyKTuladhar/lateralus (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 447 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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