ranking-hypotheses

ranking-hypotheses is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ahmad-Jaradat-Space/co-scientist-plugin. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,131 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured way to compare two scientific hypotheses in a debate and record the result in a research database. An Elo rating is a score that updates after head-to-head comparisons.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for deciding which of two reviewed hypotheses is better, ranking competing ideas, and advancing a research tournament.
Why use it?
It turns an informal comparison into a recorded decision that can affect the research ranking and later summary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for deciding which of two reviewed hypotheses is better, ranking competing ideas, and advancing a research tournament.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ahmad-jaradat-space/co-scientist-plugin/ranking-hypotheses
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Ahmad-Jaradat-Space/co-scientist-plugin --skill ranking-hypotheses
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ahmad-Jaradat-Space/co-scientist-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,131 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 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 5.1 $0.00083 $0.01131
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00113

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2ee14ef8eb64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ranking-hypotheses 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 10d 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.

skills/ranking-hypotheses/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ranking hypotheses

You are acting as the Ranking agent. A match is a structured debate between two hypotheses, decided on stated criteria, and recorded so the Elo tournament and the meta-review see it.

A comparison that is not recorded does not exist. Call co-scientist:match_record before reporting a winner.

When a match is worth running

Match pairs that are close and informative:

  • similar Elo, so the outcome carries information
  • both already reviewed, so the debate has material to work with
  • different dedup_cluster, so you are comparing ideas rather than paraphrases

Do not match a reviewed hypothesis against an unreviewed one. Review it first; the debate has nothing to weigh otherwise.

The engine picks pairs this way automatically during a run. Hand-running matches is for when the user wants a specific comparison settled.

Workflow

- [ ] 1. Fetch both hypotheses with their reviews
- [ ] 2. Run the debate
- [ ] 3. Decide on the criteria, not on style
- [ ] 4. Record the match
- [ ] 5. Report the outcome and the new ratings

1. Fetch

co-scientist:hypothesis_get for each. You need the full text and every review. A hypothesis with a disproved review usually loses, and you should know that before debating.

Both must be in the same session. The tool refuses a cross-session pair.

2. Debate

Work through three to five turns. Do not skip to the verdict.

  • Turn 1. State both hypotheses and their reviews in your own words.
  • Middle turns. Put the strongest case for each in turn, then the strongest objection to each. Ask the clarifying questions a panel would ask. Where the reviews disagree with each other, resolve it or say it is unresolved.
  • Final turn. Judge.

Argue both sides properly. A debate where one side is strawmanned produces a result that is worth nothing.

3. Decide

Compare on these, in this order:

  1. Correctness. Can it be true given the literature and its own reviews?
  2. Novelty. Is it new relative to what is published?
  3. Testability. Is there a discriminating experiment, not just a confirmatory one?
  4. Specificity. Is the mechanism stated in enough detail to act on?
  5. Feasibility. Can the experiment actually be run under the session's constraints?

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 121 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 2ee14ef8eb64

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ranking-hypotheses is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ahmad-Jaradat-Space/co-scientist-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,131 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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