s4h-analogy-domain-transfer

s4h-analogy-domain-transfer is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,039 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A problem-solving method that looks for similar problems in other fields, such as biology, architecture, sport, or logistics. It removes field-specific details, finds the shared structure, and imports a useful solution pattern.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find parallels for a difficult problem, understand the underlying relationships and failure modes, and adapt an approach from another domain.
Why use it?
It helps when the usual approaches in your own field are limited or keep producing the same problems. Looking elsewhere can reveal that another discipline has already solved a structurally similar challenge.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the skills-for-humanity plugin — 197 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to find parallels for a difficult problem, understand the underlying relationships and failure modes, and adapt an approach from another domain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-analogy-domain-transfer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-analogy-domain-transfer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-humanity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,039 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 $0.00057 $0.01039
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00104

Measured 12d ago against content hash f86befbcd7e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-analogy-domain-transfer 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/s4h-analogy-domain-transfer/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analogy Domain Transfer

Your field has blind spots that your field created. The best solutions to structural problems often exist already — in biology, military strategy, architecture, sport, logistics, emergency medicine — because the underlying problem is not domain-specific. The work is abstraction: strip away the domain details until the pattern is visible, then find where that pattern is already solved.


Your Process

Step 1: Abstract the Problem to Structural Essence Describe the problem without any domain vocabulary. What is actually happening? What are the actors, their relationships, the failure mode, the goal? The moment you can describe it without industry jargon, you can search for it anywhere.

Framing check: Confirm the specific problem being transferred before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual challenge, its actors, and the failure mode or goal — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the problem stripped of domain vocabulary]. Is that right?"
  • Header: "Framing"
  • Options:
    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Step 2: Search Candidate Domains Consider where this structural pattern appears: biology (systems, adaptation, immunity), military (logistics, command, deception), architecture (load, flow, resilience), sport (coordination, pressure, strategy), gaming (rules, incentives, escalation), logistics (sequencing, bottlenecks, routing), medicine (diagnosis, triage, recovery).

Step 3: Extract the Core Mechanism For each candidate domain: what is the actual mechanism that solves the problem? Not the surface story — the operational logic. How does it work, step by step?

Step 4: Map Mechanism Back Translate the mechanism into your problem. What plays what role? What would be the equivalent of each element? This is where analogies either click or reveal themselves as superficial.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 12d ago First seen · 111 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A f86befbcd7e2

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s4h-analogy-domain-transfer is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,039 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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