Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop --skill hypothesis-generationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktopWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop/hypothesis-generation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop/hypothesis-generation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop/hypothesis-generation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop/hypothesis-generation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop/hypothesis-generation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00058 | $0.03174 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00023 | $0.01270 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00635 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00317 |
Grade A, and why
hypothesis-generation 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 20d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 282 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Scientific Hypothesis Generation
Turn an observation into a transparent set of candidate explanations and tests. A hypothesis is a proposal to be challenged, not a finding, fact, diagnosis, or recommendation.
Non-negotiable boundaries
Before using unpublished, sensitive, controlled, personal, proprietary, export-controlled, or security-relevant material:
- Confirm authorization and the applicable institutional, funder, publisher, data-use, privacy, and AI policies.
- Keep the material local unless an authorized human explicitly approves a named external destination and data scope.
- Minimize inputs. Do not place sensitive or unpublished data in web searches or external AI systems without authorization.
- Stop at the appropriate human, animal, biosafety, dual-use, data-governance, or regulatory gate.
Never:
- present a hypothesis, mechanism, causal effect, citation, or apparent pattern as established evidence;
- claim novelty because a quick search found nothing;
- infer causation from association, temporal order alone, predictive accuracy, or model output;
- supply patient-specific diagnosis, treatment, dose, prognosis, or other clinical advice;
- provide harmful experimental optimization or operational detail for pathogens, toxins, weapons, evasion, or other misuse;
- bypass IRB/REC, IACUC, IBC, biosafety, dual-use, privacy, legal, or regulatory review;
- fabricate sources, identifiers, search coverage, data, results, approvals, or preregistration;
- automatically score, rank, select, accept, or reject scientific hypotheses.
If a request crosses a safety gate, produce only a high-level risk/oversight note and route it to the qualified local authority. Do not continue with operational detail.
Keep the objects distinct
| Object | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Observation | What was measured, noticed, or reported, with provenance and uncertainty |
| Research question | The answerable question that defines scope |
| Hypothesis | A candidate explanatory or relational proposition |
| Mechanism | The proposed process connecting conditions to an outcome |
| Causal estimand | The precisely defined causal contrast to estimate |
| Prediction | An observable implication derived before checking the target result |
| Alternative explanation | A rival account, including bias or non-causal explanations |
| Null hypothesis | A specified no-effect/no-difference model used by an analysis |
| Negative control | A control expected not to operate through the proposed mechanism |
| Operationalization | How a construct becomes a variable, measurement, intervention, or category |
| Analysis plan | Prespecified transformations, models, contrasts, uncertainty, and decision rules |
| Evidence | Observations or sources that bear on a claim; never the claim itself |
What ships with it
26 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- assets/evidence_ledger_template.csv 581 B
- assets/falsification_controls_template.json 5.7 KB
- assets/hypothesis_record_template.json 13 KB
- assets/operationalization_template.json 2.2 KB
- assets/prediction_rival_matrix_template.csv 1.6 KB
- assets/preregistration_scaffold_template.md 4.9 KB
- assets/search_boundary_template.json 1.1 KB
- assets/source_ledger.csv 12 KB
- references/causal_inference_and_claims.md 7.6 KB
- references/concepts_and_workflow.md 7.2 KB
- references/ethics_safety_and_ai.md 9.7 KB
- references/experimental_design_patterns.md 9.5 KB
- references/hypothesis_quality_criteria.md 7.8 KB
- references/literature_search_strategies.md 7.9 KB
- references/preregistration_and_open_science.md 6.6 KB
- references/security_validation.md 3.6 KB
- references/source_ledger.md 7.2 KB
- references/tool_reference.md 7.9 KB
- scripts/_common.py 14 KB runs code
- scripts/audit_evidence_ledger.py 12 KB runs code
- scripts/check_falsification_controls.py 16 KB runs code
- scripts/check_operationalization.py 7.9 KB runs code
- scripts/generate_preregistration_scaffold.py 14 KB runs code
- scripts/lint_causal_claims.py 6.6 KB runs code
- scripts/validate_hypothesis_schema.py 38 KB runs code
- scripts/validate_prediction_matrix.py 9.6 KB runs code
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.
- 20d ago First seen · 282 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 8153fdc33e0a
hypothesis-generation is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentlas-ai/agentlas-desktop (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 3,174 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-15.
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