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npx skills add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents --skill problem-reframinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagentsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00071 | $0.00799 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00036 | $0.00400 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00160 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00080 |
Grade A, and why
problem-reframing 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Problem Reframing
Problem shape: effort is being spent on a question that is malformed — a false binary, a contradiction treated as a compromise, a metaphor mistaken for the mechanism, a dispute about words masquerading as a dispute about facts. The move: dissolve, restate, or invert the frame before solving anything.
Relevant geniuses
| Agent | Use when |
|---|---|
| wittgenstein | the dispute is about how words are being used — audit the language game; some problems dissolve rather than resolve |
| nagarjuna | both sides of a binary feel wrong — run the tetralemma (true / false / both / neither) |
| aristotle | "why" questions conflated — separate the four causes; catalog the fallacies in play |
| midgley | a metaphor (machine, war, market, brain) silently shapes the design — audit where it breaks down |
| leguin | a trade-off is being denied — force the genuine cost onto the table; audit the narrative frame of the plan |
| eco | the artifact will be interpreted — design for the model reader; bound the open vs closed interpretations |
| bateson | the conflict escalates symmetrically or the instructions double-bind — the pathology is in the interaction, not the parties |
| altshuller | improving one parameter degrades another — formulate the contradiction and resolve it, don't compromise |
| polya | stuck on a problem that resists direct attack — restate, work backward, find the related solved problem, specialize |
| schon | the current approach keeps failing mid-action — surface the implicit frame and switch strategy deliberately |
Invocation
- Pick the best-fit agent above. If two or more fit, run
tools/genius-invoker.sh route "<problem>"and take the top ranked match. - Load it:
tools/genius-invoker.sh invoke <agent> "<problem>", then readagents/genius/<agent>.mdin full. - Apply the agent's
<workflow>step by step and answer in its<output-format>. The deliverable is the reframed question plus what the new frame makes visible — then route the reframed problem to the right skill (estimation, causal-audit, formal-correctness, ...). - Typical chain: wittgenstein dissolves the verbal dispute → altshuller
formulates the residual contradiction → polya attacks it. Run via
tools/genius-invoker.sh compose wittgenstein altshuller -- "<problem>". - If no shape above matches, use a standard team agent instead.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 52 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 502d560e01fb
problem-reframing is a skill published in the GitHub repository cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 799 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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