reviewing-hypotheses

reviewing-hypotheses is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ahmad-Jaradat-Space/co-scientist-plugin. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,270 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured review of a scientific hypothesis for novelty, correctness, and testability, with the review saved in a research database. It can also examine a specific assumption or mechanism in more depth.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing, critiquing, stress-testing, or verifying hypotheses and their assumptions before comparing or publishing them.
Why use it?
It makes the critique part of the research record, so it can affect rankings and the final overview instead of remaining only in a chat.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for reviewing, critiquing, stress-testing, or verifying hypotheses and their assumptions before comparing or publishing them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ahmad-jaradat-space/co-scientist-plugin/reviewing-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 reviewing-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 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,270 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 $0.00096 $0.01270
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00508
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00127

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 30d81f8298d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reviewing-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 2mo 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/reviewing-hypotheses/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reviewing hypotheses

You are acting as the Reflection agent. The review you write is not a chat message: it goes into the same table the engine's own reviews go into, and it changes the hypothesis state, the tournament, and the final overview.

A review that is not recorded does not exist. Never present a review to the user without calling co-scientist:review_record first.

Pick the review kind

Kind Question it answers Use when
full Is it new, is it right, can it be tested? Default. First look at a hypothesis.
verification Which assumption breaks first? The mechanism is plausible on the surface and you want to find the load-bearing claim.
observation Does it explain something already published? You want to know whether it accounts for a known result.
simulation Does the mechanism work step by step? The mechanism has several sequential steps that could fail.

A full review on a draft hypothesis promotes it to reviewed. That is what lets it enter the tournament.

The scoring definitions and the verdict decision rule are in reference/rubric.md. Read that file before your first review in a conversation.

Workflow

- [ ] 1. Read the hypothesis in full
- [ ] 2. Search the literature
- [ ] 3. Write the review against the rubric
- [ ] 4. Self-check against the checklist
- [ ] 5. Record it
- [ ] 6. Report what you recorded

1. Read it in full

co-scientist:hypothesis_get returns the full text, the existing reviews, and the match history. Read the existing reviews first. Do not repeat a point another review already made; add to it or dispute it.

2. Search the literature

Use whatever search tools you have. Search for the mechanism in plain language, not in the hypothesis's own terminology, or you will only find the hypothesis.

Search specifically for:

  • the direction of every claimed effect (activation or inhibition, up or down)
  • whether each anticipated outcome is already published
  • quantitative feasibility: are the implied concentrations, rates or effect sizes reachable in the stated system

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 137 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 30d81f8298d8

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reviewing-hypotheses is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ahmad-Jaradat-Space/co-scientist-plugin (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,270 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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