fill-in-missing-assumptions

fill-in-missing-assumptions is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for making an AI list the assumptions behind a recommendation or plan. It also examines how the result changes when those assumptions change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review technical architecture, budgets, strategy, and other recommendations where unknown conditions could change the answer.
Why use it?
It exposes hidden guesses about technology, scale, budget, staffing, or legal context before they cause a poor design or decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Codex.

Part of the major-ai-skills plugin — 147 skills, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to review technical architecture, budgets, strategy, and other recommendations where unknown conditions could change the answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/fill-in-missing-assumptions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill fill-in-missing-assumptions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install major-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills, 8 plugins.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,062 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 $0.00022 $0.01062
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00106

Measured yesterday against content hash 2bc8e591a624, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fill-in-missing-assumptions 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 yesterday.

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/fill-in-missing-assumptions/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ask AI to List Its Hidden Assumptions (AI Skill)

Overview

Every time an AI answers a strategic, financial, or technical question, it silently fills undefined variables with default assumptions (e.g., assuming you have infinite bandwidth, a $50k monthly budget, standard US legal jurisdiction, or a team of 10 senior engineers).

The Assumption Surfacing Protocol forces the AI to declare all latent premises underneath its analysis - allowing you to adjust flawed presuppositions before making expensive decisions.


The Assumption Extraction Framework

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Assumption Surfacing Engine                 │
│                                                             │
│  [ RECOMMENDATION / PLAN ]                                  │
│              │                                              │
│              ▼                                              │
│  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
│  │ 1. INFRASTRUCTURE & TECH: Versions, tools assumed     │  │
│  │ 2. TRAFFIC & SCALE: Requests/sec, database size       │  │
│  │ 3. BUDGET & RESOURCES: Team headcount, licensing cost │  │
│  │ 4. USER BEHAVIOR: Conversion rates, latency tolerance │  │
│  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
│              │                                              │
│              ▼                                              │
│  [ Sensitivity Check: If Assumption X changes $\rightarrow$ Impact ]│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Master Assumption-Audit Prompt Templates

Pattern 1: The Pre-Flight Assumption Audit

Use whenever receiving a complex technical, business, or marketing plan:

Review the plan you just proposed above.

List your **Top 4 Core Assumptions** across these categories:
1. **Technical / Environment Assumptions**: (e.g. cloud provider, SDK versions, OS)
2. **Scale & Traffic Assumptions**: (e.g. daily active users, requests per second)
3. **Resource & Team Assumptions**: (e.g. implementation hours, skillset required)
4. **Economic & Cost Assumptions**: (e.g. ongoing SaaS fees, egress costs)

For each assumption, answer:
*"If this assumption is false, what is the single biggest risk to the plan?"*

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. yesterday Changed · -14 tokens per session 2bc8e591a624
  2. 7d ago First seen · 107 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A f66ad257dc7c

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fill-in-missing-assumptions is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,062 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-05.

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