A command that chooses or compares methods for analyzing a question. It can recommend a framework, compare several frameworks, or let you select them before analysis.

Use it to compare analytical frameworks, receive a suggested method, or choose methods yourself. Its modes are selected with --compare and --pick, while the default suggests a framework and asks for confirmation.

It helps when the right way to examine a problem is unclear. It makes the choice of reasoning method explicit instead of applying one approach automatically.

epistemic — Command for Claude Code by askarzh/epistemator

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/askarzh/epistemator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install epistemator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/askarzh/epistemator/epistemic/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/askarzh/epistemator/epistemic)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 119 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00119
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00048
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00024
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00012

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 251b7bc6356c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epistemic 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 2mo 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.

commands/epistemic.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the epistemic-analyst agent with the user's input.

Determine the mode from arguments:

If --compare is present: use Compare mode (run all frameworks in parallel)
If --pick is present: use Pick mode (let user choose frameworks)
Otherwise: use Suggest mode (auto-recommend frameworks, ask user to confirm)

The user's input to analyze: $ARGUMENTS

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.

2mo ago First seen · 14 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 251b7bc6356c

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epistemic is a command published in the GitHub repository askarzh/epistemator (3 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 119 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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