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 fatihguner/foreman --skill information-asymmetrygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foremanWrote 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 | $0.00085 | $0.04876 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.02438 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00975 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00488 |
Grade A, and why
information-asymmetry 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 6d 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 — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.
Information Asymmetry
LEMON MARKET. In 1970, George Akerlof published a thirteen-page paper explaining why good used cars are almost impossible to sell at a fair price. The buyers cannot tell a reliable car from a wreck, so they offer the average price. Sellers of reliable cars find this insulting and withdraw. The average quality drops. Buyers adjust downward. More good sellers leave. The cycle continues until the market contains only lemons and the buyers who deserve them. Akerlof won the Nobel Prize for this observation, and it explains approximately half of every startup's commercial frustrations: why enterprise buyers default to incumbent vendors, why the best candidates reject lowball offers, why investors demand punitive terms, and why quality products lose to inferior competitors with louder marketing. The problem is never the product. The problem is that the other side cannot verify the product's quality -- and in the absence of verification, rational actors assume the worst.
The Framework
The Free Rider Problem: When Contribution Cannot Be Observed
A free rider enjoys the output of collective effort without contributing proportionally. The game-theoretic structure is precise: when individual contributions are unobservable or unmeasurable, the rational strategy for each participant is to minimize effort while consuming the group's output.
The Boxed Pigs Game -- A Parable for Startup Teams
Consider a startup with two cofounders of different capabilities. A large task (pressing the switch) must be done for both to benefit. The senior cofounder (the "big pig") invests significant effort; the junior cofounder (the "small pig") waits.
| Junior Cofounder: Contributes | Junior Cofounder: Waits | |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Cofounder: Contributes | Senior gets 7, Junior gets 3 | Senior gets 6, Junior gets 4 |
| Senior Cofounder: Waits | Senior gets 10, Junior gets 0 | Both get 0 |
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 262 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 42a4a44e95d2
information-asymmetry is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 4,876 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-06.
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