avoidance-vs-misalignment-discriminator

avoidance-vs-misalignment-discriminator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant. It costs 28 tokens per session (273 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for telling avoidance apart from genuine disagreement or lack of agreement in a relationship or shared project. It separates observed behavior from the story attached to it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a partner, collaborator, or other shared decision-maker delays, hesitates, or does not respond and you need to decide what conversation or boundary is honest.
Why use it?
It prevents hesitation from being unfairly treated as a performance problem or, in the other direction, from being excused without checking the real agreement. It identifies a direct request or conversation that can resolve the uncertainty.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it when a partner, collaborator, or other shared decision-maker delays, hesitates, or does not respond and you need to decide what conversation or boundary is honest.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cody-w-tucker/cognitive-assistant/avoidance-vs-misalignment-discriminator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant --skill avoidance-vs-misalignment-discriminator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 273 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00028 $0.00273
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00027

Measured 12d ago against content hash 055c041e39f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

avoidance-vs-misalignment-discriminator scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- Do not moralize hesitation or collapse it into a performance problem.
workspaces/skills/workflow/avoidance-vs-misalignment-discriminator/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

When To Use

Load this in relational or shared-agency ambiguity when it is unclear whether delay, hesitation, friction, or non-response is avoidance, genuine misalignment, insufficient agreement, or a missing request.

The skill owns motive discrimination in ambiguity. It helps decide what kind of relational move is honest before action is forced.

Do Not Use

Do not use this for ordinary productivity delay, technical diagnosis, operator fit, tone polish, structural simplification, or post-change verification. If there is no relational or shared-agency stake, use another skill.

What To Do

  • Separate observed behavior from the story being told about it.
  • Ask what agreement, obligation, or expectation is actually in force.
  • Distinguish fear of the direct move from legitimate lack of alignment.
  • Identify the clean clarifying request, boundary, or conversation that would test the ambiguity.
  • Do not moralize hesitation or collapse it into a performance problem.

Output Shape

Return the discrimination: observed facts, possible readings, the most honest current read, and the clarifying move that would resolve it.

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. 12d ago First seen · 26 lines · 28 tokens per session scan B 055c041e39f2

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avoidance-vs-misalignment-discriminator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cody-W-Tucker/Cognitive-Assistant (11 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 273 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.