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.
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill dichotomy-of-controlgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00143 | $0.01834 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00072 | $0.00917 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00029 | $0.00367 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00183 |
Grade A, and why
dichotomy-of-control 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 11d 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 — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Dichotomy of Control
Overview
Separate what is within your power (judgments, intentions, voluntary actions) from what is not (outcomes, others' actions, external events) — then direct effort to the first and acceptance to the second. Formulated by Epictetus (Enchiridion §1, c. 125 CE), operationalized in CBT (Beck 1976), proven under extreme conditions by Marcus Aurelius and Stockdale. Influence is not control. Accepting the uncontrollable frees energy for what matters.
Composes with metacognition, regret-minimization, wu-wei, knowing-and-doing-as-one, probabilistic-thinking.
When to Use
- Experiencing anxiety, frustration, or anger about something you cannot directly determine
- Decision under uncertainty about an outcome you cannot directly control
- Processing a setback; advising someone in a stressful situation
- Uncertainty is paralyzing a project or negotiation
- Someone says "serenity prayer," "what's within my power," "Stoicism," "things I can't change"
Not when: emotional processing is needed first; "uncontrollable" is actually avoidance of real responsibility; situation requires external advocacy/action (Stoicism addresses internal response, not whether systems should be challenged).
Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)
- Engine mode: user has a concrete stressor → run The Process directly.
- Coach mode: user unfamiliar or no concrete case → guide step by step.
In Coach mode, respond one step at a time. Each [WAIT] is a hard stop — output only that step's question, then stop.
- One-line: separate what is within your power (judgments, intentions, actions) from what is not (outcomes, others, externals) — direct effort to the first, acceptance to the second.
- Check fit: grieve or feel first if needed; identify whether this is avoidance of real responsibility.
- Elicit the specific distress: what's troubling you? What do you wish you could control?
[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]
- Run steps 2-5 of The Process one at a time with their input.
[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]
- Close by naming the specific action they will commit to within their power, and what they will accept.
[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]
What ships with it
2 files 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 124 lines · 143 tokens per session scan A a59579e1844c
dichotomy-of-control is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 143 tokens to every session and 1,834 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 2026-08-31.
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