"grad-ant"

"grad-ant" is a skill for Claude Code from charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,073 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of grad-ant, MIT.

A research framework for tracing how people, technologies, standards, and other things form networks that make an innovation or practice accepted and stable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map sociotechnical networks, study controversies, trace how innovations gain adoption, and analyze how networks are built or break apart.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a technology succeeds or fails by examining all the participants and artifacts involved, rather than treating technology as a passive tool.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to map sociotechnical networks, study controversies, trace how innovations gain adoption, and analyze how networks are built or break apart.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill/grad-ant
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 charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill --skill grad-ant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,073 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 98% 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 $0.00112 $0.01073
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00536
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00107

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1c6d5b39f2d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

"grad-ant" 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

98% identical to grad-ant — 8 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.

.claude/skills/grad-ant/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.

Actor-Network Theory (ANT)

Overview

Actor-Network Theory treats human and non-human entities symmetrically as "actants" that form networks through processes of translation. Developed by Latour, Callon, and Law, ANT traces how heterogeneous networks are assembled, stabilized, and sometimes dissolved — rejecting the a priori distinction between the social and the technical.

When to Use

  • Mapping how a technology, innovation, or practice became accepted (or failed)
  • Analyzing the role of artifacts, standards, or devices in stabilizing social arrangements
  • Tracing controversy and network-building in science and technology
  • Understanding why a seemingly good innovation failed to gain adoption

When NOT to Use

  • When the analysis requires strong normative judgments (ANT is descriptive, not prescriptive)
  • When macro-level structural explanations are needed (ANT resists pre-given social categories)
  • When non-human agency is irrelevant to the research question

Assumptions

IRON LAW: Non-human actors have AGENCY in ANT — treating technology
as a passive tool violates the framework's core principle. If your
analysis strips agency from artifacts, you are NOT doing ANT.

Key assumptions:

  1. Generalized symmetry — human and non-human actors are described in the same analytical terms
  2. No a priori distinctions between the social, technical, and natural
  3. Networks are the unit of analysis, not individuals or structures
  4. Stability is an achievement, not a given — networks require continuous maintenance

Methodology

Step 1: Identify the Controversy or Innovation

Select the phenomenon to trace. Follow the actors — do not impose pre-existing categories.

Step 2: Map the Actants

List all relevant human and non-human actors (people, organizations, technologies, documents, standards, natural entities) involved in the network.

Step 3: Trace the Four Moments of Translation (Callon, 1986)

Moment Description
Problematization A focal actor defines the problem and positions itself as an obligatory passage point
Interessement Devices and strategies lock other actors into proposed roles
Enrollment Actors accept and perform their assigned roles in the network
Mobilization Enrolled actors come to represent wider constituencies; the network stabilizes

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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 · 107 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 1c6d5b39f2d3

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"grad-ant" is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlieviettq/awesome-agent-skill (26 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,073 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to grad-ant, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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