analysis-design

analysis-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin. It costs 109 tokens per session (3,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A staged method for turning a vague analytical idea into a testable investigation plan. It sharpens the hypothesis, looks for alternative explanations, and can use feedback to redesign the analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone asks what drove a change, proposes that one event caused another, requests an analysis plan, or wants a second version after feedback.
Why use it?
It helps avoid investigating an unclear question or mistaking a correlation for a cause.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ai-analyst-plus plugin — 44 skills, 1 command, 13 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin/analysis-design
Any agent
npx skills add ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin --skill analysis-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-analyst-plus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 1 command, 13 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,149 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00109 $0.03149
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01574
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00630
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00315

Measured 5d ago against content hash 48e8da679bf0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analysis-design 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 5d 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.

ai-analyst-plus/skills/analysis-design/SKILL.md · 318 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 318 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Analysis Design

Trigger: /analysis-design, "design an analysis for...", "I think X caused Y", "help me investigate..." Type: Orchestrator — runs a multi-agent pipeline


Purpose

Takes a vague analytical hunch, stakeholder request, or business question and produces a rigorous, stakeholder-ready analysis plan through a multi-stage pipeline. Chains three specialized agents: Hypothesis Sharpener → Confound Scanner → (optional) Feedback Synthesizer.

This skill orchestrates the full lifecycle: hunch → testable hypothesis → threat assessment → investigation plan → V1 execution → feedback synthesis → V2 redesign.


When to Use

  • A PM has a hunch but no plan: "I think removing the widget caused repeat purchases to drop"
  • A vague request lands: "Can you look into why conversion dropped?"
  • An analysis needs redesign after stakeholder feedback: "Here's V1 and the comments — help me build V2"
  • Before starting any major investigation (prevents wasted work)

Inputs

Input Required Source Description
{{HUNCH}} Yes User The vague hypothesis, business question, or analytical request
{{DATA_PATH}} No User or auto-detect Path to relevant dataset(s). If not provided, uses active dataset from .knowledge/active.yaml
{{AUDIENCE}} No User Who will consume the analysis (e.g., "VP of Product", "exec team", "cross-functional leads")
{{V1_FINDINGS}} No User or working/ Path to V1 analysis output — triggers V2 redesign flow
{{FEEDBACK}} No User Stakeholder feedback (comments, meeting transcript, Slack thread) — triggers Feedback Synthesizer
{{URGENCY}} No User Timeline constraint (e.g., "need by EOD", "board meeting Friday"). Affects investigation depth.

CRITICAL: First Action - Show Architecture Preview

BEFORE doing ANYTHING else, output the architecture preview. This is the very first thing you do when this skill is invoked. Do not read agent files, do not start Stage 1, do not process inputs — show the preview first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 318 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. 5d ago First seen · 318 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 48e8da679bf0

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analysis-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst-plugin (32 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 3,149 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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