hypothesis-building

hypothesis-building is a command for Claude Code from scdenney/open-science-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (51 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A command for building and testing explanations of cause and effect. It covers ways to state hypotheses clearly, identify what could disprove them, compare alternatives, and represent relationships with causal diagrams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan studies, define measurable predictions, compare competing explanations, and choose meaningful effect-size thresholds.
Why use it?
It helps prevent vague claims and makes it clearer what evidence would support or weaken an explanation.

Command for Claude Code

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

Part of the oss plugin — 1 skill, 51 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan studies, define measurable predictions, compare competing explanations, and choose meaningful effect-size thresholds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/scdenney/open-science-skills/hypothesis-building
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/scdenney/open-science-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 51 commands, 2 agents.

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.

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README.md
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for hypothesis-building

Your own site · 80×15
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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 51 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 unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.00051
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00026
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00010
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00005

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8fb37290cba9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hypothesis-building 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 9d 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.

plugin/commands/hypothesis-building.md · 6 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 9d ago First seen · 6 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8fb37290cba9

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hypothesis-building is a command published in the GitHub repository scdenney/open-science-skills (54 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 51 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.