symbolic-check

symbolic-check is a skill for Claude Code from flonat/flonat-research. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that uses SymPy, a Python library for exact mathematics, to prove or disprove an algebraic identity, derivative, limit, sign, or closed-form expression.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps verify algebra, derivatives, limits, comparative-static signs, and closed-form calculations.
Why use it?
Handwritten algebra can contain subtle mistakes that numerical examples may miss. Exact symbolic checking can verify the stated step or show that it is false.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit It helps verify algebra, derivatives, limits, comparative-static signs, and closed-form calculations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flonat/flonat-research/symbolic-check
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add flonat/flonat-research --skill symbolic-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flonat/flonat-research

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,942 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

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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 $0.00061 $0.01942
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00194

Measured 7d ago against content hash ca47c80ba380, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

symbolic-check 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 7d 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/symbolic-check/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Symbolic Check: Prove/Refute a Self-Authored Algebra Step with a CAS

Verify a symbolic manipulation you wrote — an identity, a derivative, a limit, a comparative-static sign, a closed form — using sympy. Unlike numerical falsification, this can positively verify the step: a CAS-confirmed identity is correct.

When to Use

  • You wrote A = B, ∂f/∂x = g, lim = L, sign(∂f/∂x) = −, or "the closed form is …" and want it proven before it ships.
  • symbolic-check, "verify this algebra / derivative / limit", "check the comparative-static sign", "does this closed form equal the original".
  • Companion to mark-unverified for self-authored algebra (the derivative-sign / closed-form family the rule explicitly names).

When NOT to Use

Situation Use instead
A full theorem/lemma you want machine-proven end-to-end lean-check (R3)
A distributional / probabilistic claim over a parameter space numerical-check (R1)
Re-verify a computed empirical result cross-language-check
Conceptual / assumption review domain-reviewer

Position in the verification spectrum

R2 — symbolic / CAS. Can VERIFY (prove) or FALSIFY a symbolic step; between numerical falsification (R1) and formal proof (R3) in strength. It proves algebra, not arbitrary theorems — reasoning beyond symbolic manipulation (measure theory, limits sympy can't evaluate) escalates to lean-check or domain-reviewer.

Procedure

1. Transcribe the claim precisely, with declared symbol domains

  • Restate the exact claim: identity A == B, derivative diff(f,x) == g, limit limit(f,x,a) == L, sign sign(diff(f,x)) over a domain, or closed form expr == cf.
  • Declare assumptions on the symbolssymbols('x', positive=True, real=True) etc. Comparative-static signs and simplifications are wrong without the right domain. State them explicitly (they are part of the claim).

2. Prove the core with .equals(), not simplify(...)==0

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 117 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A ca47c80ba380

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symbolic-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository flonat/flonat-research (133 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,942 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 2026-09-03.

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