s4h-constraint

s4h-constraint is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,096 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting point for reasoning about limits that shape what can be done. It directs the situation to a method for testing, changing, reducing, or working around a constraint.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test constraints, find the minimum acceptable scope, use a limitation creatively, or map alternative routes to the same result.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague statement such as “we cannot do that” into a clearer question about whether the limit is real and how the goal can still be reached.

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 test constraints, find the minimum acceptable scope, use a limitation creatively, or map alternative routes to the same result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-constraint
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 human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-constraint
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,096 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 $0.00077 $0.01096
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00110

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4571b54dec2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-constraint 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-constraint/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Constraint

Applies constraint reasoning to any situation where limits are shaping (or blocking) what's possible. Diagnoses what kind of constraint work is needed and applies the right tool.

Which tool fits

You need to... Tool
Test whether a stated constraint is actually real hardness-testing
Flip a constraint into a creative driver rule-inversion
Find the minimum that satisfies the actual requirement scope-reduction
Find paths around a fixed constraint to reach the same goal workaround-mapping

Routing Decision

Framing check: Confirm the specific constraint and the goal it is blocking before continuing. State what you've identified — the constraint itself and what it is preventing — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the constraint and the goal it is blocking]. 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
  • Constraint feels like it might be an assumption, habit, or politics → hardness-testing

  • Constraint is real but you want it to generate rather than block → rule-inversion

  • Scope has grown beyond what's actually needed → scope-reduction

  • Constraint is genuinely fixed and you need to route around it → workaround-mapping

  • Unclear → hardness-testing first; most "constraints" dissolve under scrutiny

Confirm Direction

After diagnosing which tool fits, use the AskUserQuestion tool to confirm direction. Construct the question dynamically to include your diagnosis:

  • Question: "My read: [diagnosed tool] — [one sentence on why it fits]. How would you like to proceed?"
  • Header: "Direction"
  • Options:
    • Yes, run that tool — Execute the diagnosed skill immediately using the context already provided
    • Show all options — List every skill in this category with one-line descriptions
    • Quick version — Run a lighter-weight alternative if one exists for this situation
    • Re-diagnose — Revisit the situation description for a different read

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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 · 88 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 4571b54dec2c

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s4h-constraint is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,096 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 2026-08-30.

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