non-consensus-thinking

non-consensus-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 117 tokens per session (2,086 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to test whether the widely accepted view is wrong and whether you have specific evidence for taking a different position.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a market strategy or allocating money, time, or people where the popular option may not be correct.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a genuine opportunity from simply disagreeing with the crowd.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when choosing a market strategy or allocating money, time, or people where the popular option may not be correct.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/non-consensus-thinking
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill non-consensus-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,086 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 $0.00117 $0.02086
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01043
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00209

Measured 9d ago against content hash b7858a336307, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

non-consensus-thinking 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.

non-consensus-thinking/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.

Non-Consensus Thinking

Overview

Every market — capital, talent, customers, ideas — prices the consensus view into its current state. By the time an idea is mainstream, its excess return has been arbitraged away. Non-consensus thinking is a disciplined audit of where the crowd's belief might be wrong and whether you hold a specific, articulable advantage that makes the minority position actually correct, not just different.

Compose with: [second-order-thinking] first (trace downstream consequences); [confirmation-bias] audit after (check you haven't built a new blind minority consensus); [first-principles] instead when rebuilding from bedrock evidence, not auditing mispricing.

When to Use

  • Entering a market where the "right" strategy feels obvious to most participants.
  • Making an allocation decision (capital, time, hiring) where popular and correct may diverge.
  • Any situation where "everyone knows that..." appears — consensus may be unexamined.
  • A contested present-day narrative where crowd and edge may diverge (e.g. "AI capex is a bubble," chip export controls, "the scaling thesis is dead") — pressure-test whether you hold a real edge or are just picking a side.

When NOT to use: Consensus is correct and well-evidenced; non-consensus position requires information you can't obtain; time horizon too short to vindicate the position; stakes of being wrong are catastrophic and irreversible.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has a concrete case → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: user is unfamiliar → 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. What it is: "What does everyone believe, and why might they be wrong — and do I have a real edge that makes the minority view correct?"
  2. Check fit: "Tell me your decision. Is there a dominant answer most people in your field would give? Do you have specific conflicting evidence?"
  3. Elicit their real case: "State the consensus in one sentence. What specific information do you have that most participants don't?"

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Run The Process one step at a time with their input. Do not jump to asymmetry until edge audit is complete.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close: "If your edge is real and consensus is wrong, what becomes possible? Name that outcome specifically."

[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 · 117 tokens per session scan A b7858a336307

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non-consensus-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 2,086 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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