s4h-epistemology-knowledge-types

s4h-epistemology-knowledge-types is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 142 tokens per session (1,864 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for identifying what kind of knowledge a claim involves, such as observation, inference, testimony, intuition, or memory. It also distinguishes knowing that something is true from knowing how to do something.

In plain words
What is it for?
Classify a claim before testing or debating it. Use it to decide what evidence is relevant and how the claim can be supported or challenged.
Why use it?
Different kinds of claims need different evidence and can fail in different ways. Confusing intuition with observation or testimony with first-hand knowledge can lead to weak conclusions.

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 Classify a claim before testing or debating it. Use it to decide what evidence is relevant and how the claim can be supported or challenged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-epistemology-knowledge-types
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-epistemology-knowledge-types
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 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,864 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 $0.00142 $0.01864
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00932
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00186

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8ede9e17499c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-epistemology-knowledge-types 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/s4h-epistemology-knowledge-types/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Epistemology: Knowledge Types

Before you can test whether a claim is justified, you need to know what kind of claim it is — because different kinds of knowing have different justification standards, different failure modes, and different evidentiary requirements. Mixing up knowledge types is a recurring source of bad reasoning: treating empirical claims as if they're matters of pure logic, treating intuitions as if they're perceptions, treating testimony as if it's first-hand knowledge.

This skill classifies the kind of knowing in play, then draws out what that classification implies for how the claim can be established or challenged.


Your Process

Step 1: Extract the Claim State the claim being made as precisely as possible. Strip away rhetorical packaging. What exactly is being asserted?

Framing check: Confirm the specific claim before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual claim being analyzed and the context in which it is being made — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the specific claim and context]. 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: Classify Along the Primary Axis — A Priori vs. A Posteriori

  • A priori — can be known through reason alone, independent of experience. True by definition, logical necessity, or mathematical proof. Examples: "all bachelors are unmarried," "2+2=4," "if A>B and B>C then A>C."

    • Test: could this be false if the world were different? If no, it's a priori.
    • Failure mode: confusing definitional truths with empirical claims ("free markets are efficient" can be made a priori by definition, but that makes it empty rather than powerful).
  • A posteriori — requires experience and evidence. Could be false; the world could have been otherwise. Examples: "water boils at 100°C at sea level," "this product's NPS is 42."

    • Test: would we need to investigate the world to know if it's true? If yes, it's a posteriori.
    • Failure mode: treating empirical claims as if they've been established when they've only been assumed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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 · 141 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 8ede9e17499c

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s4h-epistemology-knowledge-types is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 1,864 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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