evidence-based-replies

evidence-based-replies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack. It costs 43 tokens per session (816 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of evidence-based-replies, MIT.

A method for writing replies that compare a claim with what a research paper, benchmark, article, or project README actually says. It separates proven findings from conclusions that the source does not establish.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check research claims, explain misunderstandings, and draft evidence-based replies for forums or social networks. It can distinguish empirical research from advice or documentation.
Why use it?
It prevents a source from being used to support a stronger claim than its evidence allows. It also makes disagreements clearer by identifying the exact reasoning gap.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check research claims, explain misunderstandings, and draft evidence-based replies for forums or social networks. It can distinguish empirical research from advice or documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atlasomnia/hermes-custom-pack/evidence-based-replies
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 AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack --skill evidence-based-replies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 816 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.00816
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00408
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00082

Measured 9d ago against content hash 81eebd0e3ff8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evidence-based-replies 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to evidence-based-replies — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/evidence-based-replies/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evidence-Based Replies

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • compare someone's claim to a research paper, benchmark, article, or repo README
  • draft a reply that corrects a misunderstanding of the evidence
  • separate "the source supports X" from "the source does not support Y"
  • turn a source-comparison into a Reddit/X/forum-ready response

Core principle

Do not stop at summarizing the source. The deliverable is usually the distinction:

  1. what the source actually establishes
  2. what stronger conclusion the other person is trying to import into it
  3. why that leap does not follow

If the user is asking for a reply, the misunderstanding of the evidence must be addressed explicitly, not left implicit.

Default workflow

  1. Read the conversation/claim carefully.
  2. Extract the specific proposition the other person is asserting from the source.
  3. Read the cited source.
  4. Split findings into:
  • Supported by the source
  • Not established by the source
  • Reasonable but unproven extrapolations
  1. Compare the source type:
  • empirical paper
  • benchmark paper
  • opinion/design README
  • repo guidance / author doctrine
  1. Draft the response around the distinction, not around vague disagreement.

Required output shape

When explaining the comparison, prefer this structure:

  • "The paper/source does show ..."
  • "What it does not show is ..."
  • "That is the step I disagree with."
  • "So my criticism is not X; it is Y."

This pattern prevents straw-manning and keeps the correction precise.

Writing guidance for this user

the user prefers concise, practical responses. For forum replies:

  • lead with the misunderstanding, not with throat-clearing
  • avoid generic "both sides have a point" filler
  • make the inferential gap explicit
  • distinguish directionally true claims from overclaims
  • prefer operational language over academic hedging

If he says a draft "needs to address the misunderstanding of the research," revise around the evidentiary gap immediately.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 9d ago First seen · 86 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 81eebd0e3ff8

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evidence-based-replies is a skill published in the GitHub repository AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack (56 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 816 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to evidence-based-replies, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.