adapt

An idea-generation exercise based on borrowing useful approaches from other industries, places, time periods, competitors, and nature.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore adaptations for a product, process, service, or other design problem.
Why use it?
It helps when a problem feels stuck inside its usual assumptions and you need fresh directions to consider.

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/neurofoo/agent-skills/adapt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 404 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00404
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00202
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash 38774c8913f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adapt 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 2d 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.

scamper/commands/adapt.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

ADAPT

Generate ideas by asking what can be copied, borrowed, or adapted from other contexts.

Instructions

Look for successful patterns, approaches, or solutions from other industries, products, time periods, or contexts that could be adapted here.

Output Format

Subject: [What we're exploring]


Adaptation Ideas

From Other Industries

Industry Their Solution Adapted Here As
[industry] [what they do] [how we'd apply it]
[industry] [what they do] [how we'd apply it]
[industry] [what they do] [how we'd apply it]

From Nature

Natural Example The Principle Application
[example] [principle] [how to use]
[example] [principle] [how to use]

From History

Historical Approach Core Idea Modern Version
[old approach] [principle] [updated version]

From Other Markets/Regions

Where It Works What Works Localized Version
[market] [approach] [adapted version]

From Competitors

Competitor Their Approach Our Adaptation
[who] [what they do] [how we'd improve]

Prompting Questions

  • What else is like this?
  • Who has solved a similar problem?
  • What from another industry could apply?
  • What from the past could be updated?
  • What works elsewhere in the world?
  • What can we emulate and improve?

Top Adaptation Ideas

  1. [Best idea]
  2. [Second idea]
  3. [Third idea]

$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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 64 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 38774c8913f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adapt is a command published in the GitHub repository neurofoo/agent-skills (111 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 404 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.