reasoning-doctrine

reasoning-doctrine is a skill for Claude Code from Ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (886 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A general working method for handling nontrivial tasks: define the goal, check important facts, choose a route, carry out the work, and verify it before delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for planning, coding, debugging, reviews, document work, analysis, and other tasks with multiple steps or meaningful risk.
Why use it?
It helps prevent drifting from the objective, relying on unsupported assumptions, or delivering work that has not been checked.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the governed plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for planning, coding, debugging, reviews, document work, analysis, and other tasks with multiple steps or meaningful risk.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills/reasoning-doctrine
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 Ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills --skill reasoning-doctrine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install governed, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 886 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 $0.00058 $0.00886
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00089

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5062ed79aca8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reasoning-doctrine 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 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.

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.

skills/reasoning-doctrine/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reasoning doctrine

Progressive loading

Resolve these paths relative to this skill:

Reference Read when
references/escalation-and-retries.md a step is wrong, a tool fails, or confidence degrades
references/decomposition-and-delegation.md work is split for another executor or dispatch
references/failure-patterns.md a failure tell fires or a correction lands
references/find-a-way.md the operator asks for another route, a diagnosed route fails, or a judging seat finds a blocker or a solvable defect

Do not preload all references.

Priority and stages

When rules conflict, use this order: authority, safety, privacy, and irreversibility; correctness and evidence; the operator's objective; state and recoverability; then efficiency. Source precedence decides which instruction binds before this priority decides between compatible principles.

Run every nontrivial task through these stages:

  1. FRAME. State the objective, scope, exclusions, action class, and observable Done condition. Ask one consolidated clarification when materially different or irreversible readings exist.
  2. GROUND. Read the original files and run the real checks. Mark facts verified, inferred, or unknown. Do not draft while a load-bearing fact is unknown.
  3. CONVERGE. Compare genuine routes. Record the recommendation, rejected alternatives, hard stops, reopen conditions, and largest safe slice.
  4. EXECUTE. Work only the selected route and scope. Name any divergence before adapting.
  5. VERIFY. Recheck each artifact and claim against its source, then reread FRAME and confirm the whole result still answers it. Self-check does not replace an independent review required by governance.

Authority does not expand by adjacency. Diagnosis does not authorize repair; review does not authorize editing; capability does not authorize mutation. Check target, authority, and recovery before an irreversible action.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 12d ago First seen · 92 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 5062ed79aca8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reasoning-doctrine is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ezra144israel/governed-agent-skills (21 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 886 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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