crucible

crucible is a plugin for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. Its manifest loads nothing; the 5 skills it bundles cost 158 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A research method for using language models to discover and test strategies. It treats ideas as hypotheses that are changed, compared, and checked against attempts to disprove them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore competing hypotheses, run repeated research sessions, and apply adversarial checks before trusting a strategy.
Why use it?
It gives investigations a repeatable way to improve instead of accepting the first plausible idea. Failed experiments remain available for later review.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add terrylica/cc-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/terrylica/cc-skills/crucible
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 5 skills cost 158 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

crucible 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 4d 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.

plugins/crucible/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 19 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "crucible",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "Self-evolving research methodology for LLM-driven strategy discovery. Agnostic universal principles distilled from multi-session iterative investigation, structured as a genetic-evolutionary process — hypotheses mutate, compete, get selected by adversarial gates, and failed attempts remain resurrectable.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Terry Li",
    "url": "https://github.com/terrylica"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "research-methodology",
    "self-evolving",
    "adversarial-gates",
    "shuffled-null",
    "genetic-evolutionary",
    "agnostic-principles",
    "llm-investigation"
  ]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 5 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 158 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 4d ago First seen · 19 lines scan A b33f4fe22a40

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crucible is a plugin published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (61 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.