inductive-reasoning

inductive-reasoning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fzfclee/consulting-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (708 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for inferring a likely pattern or general rule from specific observations, examples, or data. Its conclusions are probable rather than certain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interpret customer research, repeated stakeholder behavior, market signals, operational symptoms, or trends.
Why use it?
It helps separate evidence-based patterns from guesses and makes sample size, exceptions, and confidence visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to interpret customer research, repeated stakeholder behavior, market signals, operational symptoms, or trends.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fzfclee/consulting-skills/inductive-reasoning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fzfclee/consulting-skills --skill inductive-reasoning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fzfclee/consulting-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 708 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.
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 $0.00059 $0.00708
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00071

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9b0879f8123c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inductive-reasoning 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.

skills/inductive-reasoning/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inductive Reasoning

Use this skill to infer a likely pattern or general rule from observed evidence.

Method Notes

  • Inductive reasoning moves from specific observations to a broader pattern or generalization.
  • Inductive conclusions are probabilistic, not certain.
  • The method should make sample size, representativeness, exceptions, and confidence visible.
  • It is useful for customer research, repeated stakeholder behavior, market signals, operational symptoms, and trend interpretation.

Required Inputs

Collect or infer these inputs before execution:

  • observations, examples, cases, data points, quotes, or events
  • source and timing of observations
  • population or context being generalized to
  • known exceptions
  • decision or hypothesis the pattern will inform

If an input is missing, mark it as missing, state the assumption used, and add a validation action.

When Not To Use

Do not use when the conclusion must follow from formal rules or fixed criteria. Use deductive-reasoning instead.

Step-by-Step Execution

Step Required input How to execute Output
Define the inference question Decision context, target population. State what pattern or generalization is being tested. Inference question.
List observations Cases, data points, quotes, events. Put each observation in a separate row with source and timing. Observation table.
Cluster patterns Observation table. Identify repeated behaviors, causes, needs, outcomes, or signals. Pattern candidates.
Test strength Sample size, representativeness, consistency. Rate each pattern by frequency, diversity of support, and evidence quality. Pattern strength table.
Look for exceptions Known counterexamples, missing segments. Identify observations that contradict or limit the pattern. Exception list.
State likely generalization Pattern strength and exceptions. Write the conclusion with confidence and boundary conditions. Inductive conclusion.
Define validation Weakest evidence gaps. Specify what additional evidence would strengthen or weaken the pattern. Validation plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 9d ago First seen · 78 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 9b0879f8123c

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inductive-reasoning is a skill published in the GitHub repository fzfclee/consulting-skills (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 708 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 2026-08-31.