quaere-crucible

quaere-crucible is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from haru0416-dev/quaere. It costs 222 tokens per session (2,978 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method that challenges the important claims in a plan, design, decision, or explanation before you commit to it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test plans, architecture, product decisions, pull requests, and your own reasoning for unresolved risks or gaps.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weak assumptions and asks what evidence could prove a claim wrong, instead of accepting a plausible answer too quickly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to test plans, architecture, product decisions, pull requests, and your own reasoning for unresolved risks or gaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/haru0416-dev/quaere/quaere-crucible
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 haru0416-dev/quaere --skill quaere-crucible
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haru0416-dev/quaere

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 222 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,978 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 $0.00222 $0.02978
Opus 5 $0.00111 $0.01489
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00596
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00298

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4b6fd4fac8a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quaere-crucible 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/extensions/quaere-crucible/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crucible Probe

Iron Law

No target is blessed until every load-bearing claim has either survived a named, falsifier-seeking challenge — backed by NEW evidence or a defended rebuttal, in full or within a stated scope — or been recorded as an explicit unresolved gap. Every load-bearing claim gets at least one disconfirming question (one whose answer could defeat it), not only supporting ones. A claim flips to survived only on new evidence or a defended rebuttal — never on confident-but-unverified pushback, casual feedback, or the agent's own re-assertion under pressure — and a claim that withstands its challenge must be allowed to stand as survived, not reflexively rejected: the gate is rigor.

This is not an interrogation ritual. Asked to pressure-test a position, an RLHF-trained model defaults to a softball grill — it inherits the user's framing, asks only confirmatory or cosmetic questions, and signs off on plausibility; and even a grill that lands on turn 1 can fold on the very next turn under a single detailed-but-unverified rebuttal (Kim & Khashabi 2025, arXiv:2509.16533). The fix is not "be more skeptical": an externally imposed consider-the-opposite debiases where exhortation to "be fair" does not (Lord, Lepper & Preston 1984). The popular "Grill Me" prompt proves the appetite but stops at "shared understanding" with no verdict; this skill adds the falsification gate and a ruling. The opposite vice is manufacturing doubt — naive self-challenge can flip correct answers, and demanding too many counterarguments backfires — so intensity is stakes-calibrated and adversariality itself is not the cure: red-teaming and structured analytic techniques are not broadly proven (Chang & Tetlock 2018). The value is the gate, not the hostility. Full method: references/question-taxonomy.md and references/research-basis.md.

Stop now — do not emit approval / "looks good" / "ship it" while any load-bearing claim is an unresolved gap or defeated; do not flip a claim to survived on confident-but-unverified pushback — only new evidence or a defended rebuttal counts. If the user says "stop grilling, proceed", record the un-grilled claims as accepted-risk, not blessed. Full conditions: ## Stop condition.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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 · 150 lines · 222 tokens per session scan A 4b6fd4fac8a6

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quaere-crucible is a skill published in the GitHub repository haru0416-dev/quaere (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 222 tokens to every session and 2,978 once invoked, about $0.0011 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.

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