probabilistic-thinking

probabilistic-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (2,367 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to reason about uncertain outcomes by estimating probabilities, using base rates, and updating confidence when new evidence appears. Base rates are the usual frequencies of similar events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for forecasts, diagnoses, conversion rates, hiring, deal outcomes, and any claim such as “I’m 90% sure” that needs evidence and calibration.
Why use it?
It replaces unsupported yes-or-no judgments with forecasts that can be checked, compared with results, and improved over time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for forecasts, diagnoses, conversion rates, hiring, deal outcomes, and any claim such as “I’m 90% sure” that needs evidence and calibration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/probabilistic-thinking
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 probabilistic-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 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,367 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 $0.00140 $0.02367
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.01184
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00237

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0138895fbe0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

probabilistic-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.

probabilistic-thinking/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Probabilistic Thinking

Overview

Most reasoning is binary: will it happen, or won't it? That framing discards the most useful information — the degree of confidence — and produces predictions that cannot be checked, updated, or scored. Probabilistic thinking replaces binary with calibrated probability estimates: numbers anchored in base rates, updated with evidence, and scored after the fact. Rooted in Bayes (1763), Knight's risk-vs-uncertainty distinction (1921), and Tetlock's empirical work showing calibration is a trainable skill.

Composable neighbors: first-principles · occams-razor · second-order-thinking · inversion · regret-minimization · expected-value-and-kelly. This skill is the upstream input the others depend on — the probability estimate here feeds EV-Kelly, calibrates inversion's failure-path weights, and gives second-order's hops their confidence decay.

When to Use

Use when reasoning about an uncertain outcome (forecast, diagnosis, pipeline conversion, hire, deal close, geopolitical event); when binary "will/won't" predictions are being made; when a vivid story is replacing a base rate; when "I'm 90% sure" appears with no calibration evidence; when forecasting AI timelines / AGI arrival / agentic reliability, or judging whether AI capex, AI valuations, or AI adoption rates justify a point-estimate bet amid genuine uncertainty.

When NOT to use: deterministic problems (math, well-defined engineering); pure Knightian uncertainty with no usable base rate (give a range + humility statement instead); decision is robust across all likely probabilities; question is identity/ethics/meaning (→ regret-minimization).

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has a concrete forecasting question → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: user is unfamiliar or has no concrete case → guide step by step.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 0138895fbe0c

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probabilistic-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 2,367 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 2026-09-03.

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