ambiguity

A command that checks whether a search phrase matches stored memories in more than one project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before cross-project searches to see which projects match and how many memories each one contains. It can return results for people or scripts as JSON.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using the wrong project context when a common term, such as “deployment,” appears in several projects.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/proticom/gnosys/ambiguity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proticom/gnosys
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 322 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 $0.00322
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00032

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2edf9f203b91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ambiguity 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 3d 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.

docs/commands/ambiguity.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

gnosys ambiguity

Check if a query matches memories in multiple projects.

Usage

gnosys ambiguity "deployment"
gnosys ambiguity "deployment" --json

Options

Option Description
--json Output as JSON

Behavior

  1. Opens the central DB via GnosysDB.openCentral().
  2. Calls detectAmbiguity(centralDb, query) from src/lib/federated.js.
  3. Reports whether the query is ambiguous across projects.

Output modes

No ambiguity (human):

No ambiguity for "deployment" — matches at most one project.

Ambiguous (human): message plus candidate projects with directory and matching memory counts.

JSON (--json):

{
  "query": "deployment",
  "ambiguous": true,
  "message": "...",
  "candidates": [...]
}

Errors

Central DB unavailable:

Central DB not available.

Other errors:

Error: <message>

Failure paths set process.exitCode = 1 and return through finally.

Validation

cd gnosys-public
npm run cli -- ambiguity --help
npx vitest run src/test/ambiguity-command-handler.test.ts
  • gnosys fsearch — federated search with tier boosting
  • gnosys briefing — project memory state summary
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. 3d ago First seen · 73 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2edf9f203b91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ambiguity is a command published in the GitHub repository proticom/gnosys (4 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 322 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 2026-08-31.