falsifiability

falsifiability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,745 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A standard for making a claim testable by stating what evidence would show that it is wrong.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define measurable goals, design experiments, evaluate advice, and stress-test business or technology claims.
Why use it?
It prevents vague strategies, experiments, and theories from being protected by explanations that can never be disproved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define measurable goals, design experiments, evaluate advice, and stress-test business or technology claims.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/falsifiability
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 deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill falsifiability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,745 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
  • 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 $0.00107 $0.01745
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00873
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00175

Measured 9d ago against content hash 111ea0486d56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

falsifiability 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.

falsifiability/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Falsifiability

Overview

A meaningful empirical claim must specify what observations would refute it. Claims that resist all possible refutation are not science — they are unfalsifiable belief. Formalized by Karl Popper (1934): science progresses not by accumulating confirmations but by surviving rigorous attempts at falsification. More-specific claims are more falsifiable; ad-hoc modifications that explain away failures destroy a claim's scientific status.

Composes with confirmation-bias (falsifiability is the structural counter), abductive-reasoning (generates hypotheses; this skill tests them), bayesian-reasoning, critical-thinking.

When to Use

  • Designing OKRs, KPIs, or strategic goals; writing or evaluating investment theses
  • Designing experiments (A/B tests, product hypotheses, market entry)
  • Evaluating consultant/advisor recommendations or diagnosing vague leadership claims
  • Someone says "what would change your mind," "how would you know you're wrong," "Popper"
  • Stress-testing an AI/AGI hype claim ("AGI is near," "the model truly understands," "our AI adoption is working") — demand what evidence would disprove the capability or safety claim

Not when: genuinely non-empirical (philosophical, ethical, aesthetic); test cost exceeds its value.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has a specific claim → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: user is new → 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.

  1. One-line: before acting on a claim, ask what observation would refute it — if "nothing would," it's belief, not knowledge.
  2. Check fit: if the claim is genuinely metaphysical (ethical, aesthetic), falsifiability doesn't apply.
  3. Elicit the claim and its current evidential basis.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Ask: what specific observation would falsify this? When and how would you observe it?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close: falsifiability conditions specified + monitoring plan + commitment to act on disconfirming evidence.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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 · 122 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 111ea0486d56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

falsifiability is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,745 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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