negentropy-lens

negentropy-lens is a skill for Claude Code from bencium/bencium-marketplace. It costs 146 tokens per session (1,794 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision framework for evaluating systems, architectures, and strategies as they either accumulate decay or build resilience, while revealing undocumented knowledge gaps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing an architecture, reviewing a system design, comparing technical approaches, or making other engineering decisions.
Why use it?
It helps make hidden risks and missing context visible during technical planning.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the negentropy-lens plugin — 1 skill shipped together

not rated 422repo +3 12d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 146 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when choosing an architecture, reviewing a system design, comparing technical approaches, or making other engineering decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bencium/bencium-marketplace/negentropy-lens
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 bencium/bencium-marketplace --skill negentropy-lens
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bencium/bencium-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install negentropy-lens, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,794 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 8 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00146 $0.01794
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00897
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00179

Measured 13d ago against content hash 3817c83daa0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

negentropy-lens 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 13d 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.

negentropy-lens/skills/negentropy-lens/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Negentropy Lens

A thinking framework for evaluating decisions, systems, and architectures through two fundamental system states: entropy (decay, disorder, complexity debt) and negentropy (growth, compounding value, increasing order).

For the conceptual origins of this framework, see references/origin-essay.md.

Core Principle

Every system exists in one of two states. Every decision either accelerates entropy or drives negentropy. There is no neutral. Inaction is entropic. The goal is not to eliminate entropy — it is to recognize which state a system is in, surface what is hidden, and make deliberate choices about direction.

Term Definitions

On first use in every output, define these three terms inline using parentheses:

  • Entropy (the natural tendency of systems toward decay, disorder, and complexity without value)
  • Negentropy (the deliberate reversal of decay — growth, compounding value, increasing order)
  • Tacit knowledge (the unwritten, unspoken knowledge of how things actually work — assumptions, workarounds, and institutional memory that never make it into documentation)

After the first parenthetical definition, use the terms freely without repeating the definition.

The Two States

Entropy (Decay)

Signs of entropy in a system:

  • Complexity increases without corresponding capability gain
  • Knowledge lives in people's heads, not in the system
  • Workarounds accumulate; the handbook diverges from reality
  • Decisions optimize for slowing decline rather than enabling growth
  • "Not invented here" blocks adoption of better approaches
  • Technical debt compounds silently
  • Integration points multiply without clear ownership

Negentropy (Growth)

Signs of negentropy in a system:

  • Each component makes adjacent components better
  • Knowledge compounds — today's output improves tomorrow's input
  • Quality improves through engineering discipline, not heroics
  • Decisions create upward spirals: better decisions → better data → better decisions
  • The system reflects how the organization actually operates
  • Complexity serves capability; unnecessary complexity is actively removed

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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. 13d ago First seen · 174 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 3817c83daa0b

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negentropy-lens is a skill published in the GitHub repository bencium/bencium-marketplace (422 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 1,794 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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