fractal-think-seed

fractal-think-seed is a command for Claude Code from axiomantic/spellbook. It costs 15 tokens per session (1,654 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup command for fractal thinking, an approach that breaks one question, claim, goal, or fact into smaller questions arranged as a graph. It creates the starting node and sets the exploration limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or resume a structured exploration, choose its depth, and create the initial question nodes.
Why use it?
It gives a complex investigation a defined starting point and records the smaller questions that need answering.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Good fit Use it to start or resume a structured exploration, choose its depth, and create the initial question nodes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/axiomantic/spellbook/fractal-think-seed
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axiomantic/spellbook

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,654 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 $0.00015 $0.01654
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00827
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00165

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5ed9c325c1bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fractal-think-seed 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 7d 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/fractal-think-seed.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fractal Think Seed

Invariant Principles

  1. Seed determines root - Every graph starts from exactly one seed node.
  2. No upfront clustering - Questions are added as flat children of root. Branch structure emerges from recursive decomposition, not surface-level domain grouping.
  3. Budget set once - Intensity determines max_agents and max_depth at creation; never change mid-exploration.

Before generating questions, assess: seed type (question/claim/goal/fact), intensity budget, resume vs new. After writing nodes, verify: all questions recorded as open nodes, count matches intensity target, no duplicates.

Read skills/fractal-thinking/references/mcp-tools.md before Step 1. It is the canonical definition of the fractal_* tool surface, the valid intensity and checkpoint_mode values, the saturation reasons, and the node state machine used here.

Parameters

Parameter Required Description
seed Yes The question, claim, goal, or fact to explore
intensity Yes "pulse", "explore", or "deep"
checkpoint Yes Checkpoint mode for the exploration
graph_id No If provided, resume this graph instead of creating new

Step 1: Create or Resume Graph

Creating a New Graph

Valid values: intensity = pulse | explore | deep; checkpoint_mode = autonomous | convergence | interactive | depth:N

fractal_create_graph(
  seed: <seed>,
  intensity: <intensity>,
  checkpoint_mode: <checkpoint>
)

Returns:

{
  "graph_id": "uuid",
  "root_node_id": "uuid",
  "intensity": "explore",
  "checkpoint_mode": "autonomous",
  "budget": { "max_agents": 8, "max_depth": 4 },
  "status": "active"
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 7d ago First seen · 191 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 5ed9c325c1bd

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fractal-think-seed is a command published in the GitHub repository axiomantic/spellbook (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,654 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.