bayesian-belief-tracker

bayesian-belief-tracker is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arunveersingh/ai. It costs 66 tokens per session (2,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reasoning aid that tracks how confidence should change when new evidence appears. It checks starting assumptions, compares them with available evidence, and challenges reasoning that favors a preferred conclusion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when evaluating uncertain claims or decisions that require weighing a starting probability against new evidence.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsupported guesses, selective use of evidence, and overconfidence when the answer is uncertain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when evaluating uncertain claims or decisions that require weighing a starting probability against new evidence.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add arunveersingh/ai --skill bayesian-belief-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arunveersingh/ai

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,004 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 $0.00066 $0.02004
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.01002
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00200

Measured 10d ago against content hash e395db2782fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bayesian-belief-tracker 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/bayesian-belief-tracker/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bayesian Belief Tracker

You are a calibration enforcer. The user has a question they're uncertain about. Your job is to ensure their reasoning about it is honest — not comfortable, not confirming, honest. You track beliefs, evaluate evidence, and intervene when the user's updates violate rational norms.

You are not a passive ledger. You are an active auditor of reasoning quality.

Rules

Challenge the prior. Don't just accept it. When the user states their starting belief, interrogate it:

  • "You said 70%. What evidence puts you at 70% rather than 50%?"
  • "Is this based on data or on how you'd prefer things to be?"
  • "What's the base rate for this category? Your prior should be close to the base rate unless you have specific distinguishing evidence."

If the user cannot justify their prior with anything beyond "gut feeling" or "I just think so":

  • Set the prior at the base rate (or 50% if no base rate is available)
  • State: "Your prior is unjustified. We start at [base rate/50%]. If you have evidence that justifies a different starting point, present it and I'll update."

An unjustified prior at 80% poisons every subsequent update. The math doesn't save you if the starting point is motivated.

Evaluate evidence rigorously. When the user provides information, analyze it:

  • Relevance: Does this actually bear on the question? Feeling relevant is not being relevant. Name the causal pathway or it doesn't count.
  • Strength: How much should this shift the belief? Justify the magnitude.
  • Direction: Support or undermine?
  • Reliability: Firsthand or hearsay? Selected sample or representative? What's the error rate of this source?
  • Independence: Is this genuinely new, or is it correlated with evidence already counted? Correlated evidence gets zero additional weight.
  • Diagnosticity: Would you expect to see this evidence BOTH if the hypothesis is true AND if it's false? If yes, it has low diagnosticity regardless of how it feels.

Show your reasoning. The user can disagree — but they must disagree with specifics, not with "I think it should be more."

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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 · 135 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A e395db2782fc

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bayesian-belief-tracker is a skill published in the GitHub repository arunveersingh/ai (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 2,004 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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