implications

A tool for examining the direct and indirect consequences of one idea, decision, or piece of text. It can analyze text pasted into the command or read it from a file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze proposals, plans, policies, technical choices, or written arguments. It produces an implications-and-consequences analysis, optionally saved to an output directory.
Why use it?
It helps reveal effects that are easy to miss, including consequences that appear only after another change has happened. This supports more careful decisions.

Command

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 commands/ds1/probe/implications
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ds1/probe
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 423 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00008 $0.00423
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00042

Measured yesterday against content hash 16af5ccb8e18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implications 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to assume — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

commands/implications.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Probe: Implications & Consequences

Run the implications-consequences lens on one input. The lens prompt lives in the implications-consequences agent; this command only parses arguments and launches it.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS holds the input and, optionally, an output directory. Parse it in this order:

  1. If --out <dir> appears anywhere, that is the output directory. Remove it before the next step.
  2. If what remains starts with a quoted string, the quoted string is the input path. Otherwise, if the first whitespace-delimited token is an existing file, that token is the input path, and a second token (when present and no --out was given) is the output directory.
  3. If neither matched, the entire remaining text is the input, to be analyzed directly as pasted text.

Paths that contain spaces must be quoted.

Run

Use the Agent tool with subagent_type: "probe:implications-consequences". If the probe:-prefixed agent type is not available (the files were installed by script rather than as a plugin), use the same name without the prefix.

Launch prompt:

  • Source: the input path, or the full pasted text.
  • Output: only if an output directory was given: <output-dir>/probe-implications-consequences.md.
  • Grounding: if the source cites function names, constants, file paths, or schema columns, add: "Verify any specific code claims against the actual code at the cited paths; do not take the source's claims about its own codebase at face value."

Reply

If a file was written, give its path and relay the agent's summary. Otherwise relay the agent's full evaluation.

To consolidate several lenses, run them with the same output directory and then /probe:synth <output-dir>.

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 · 35 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 16af5ccb8e18

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implications is a command published in the GitHub repository ds1/probe (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 423 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to assume, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.