s4h-investigation

s4h-investigation is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,308 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide that routes an investigation to the right method, such as tracing a source, checking evidence, or testing alternative explanations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to verify a claim, find where it came from, assess its evidence, or compare explanations.
Why use it?
It helps clarify what kind of fact-checking is needed before you start gathering information.

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 when you need to verify a claim, find where it came from, assess its evidence, or compare explanations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-investigation
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-investigation
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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README.md
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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,308 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 $0.00092 $0.01308
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00654
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00131

Measured 9d ago against content hash bf8f7faa3a3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-investigation 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-investigation/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investigation

Practical truth-finding methodology: tracing sources, decomposing claims, evaluating evidence, generating rival hypotheses, and triangulating across independent sources. Diagnoses what kind of investigative work is needed and routes to the right tool.

Which tool fits

You need to... Tool
Trace a claim back to its origin and test how it has changed in transmission investigation-source-trace
Break a complex claim into its smallest independently verifiable parts investigation-claim-decomposition
Evaluate the quality, strength, and completeness of evidence investigation-evidence-audit
Generate the best alternative explanations for the same observations investigation-counter-hypothesis
Verify a claim across genuinely independent sources investigation-triangulation

Routing Decision

  • "Where does this claim come from? Who first said this?" → investigation-source-trace (trace origin, test source credibility, map distortion in transmission)
  • "What exactly is this claiming? What are all the sub-claims inside it?" → investigation-claim-decomposition (decompose → classify → identify load-bearing parts)
  • "Is the evidence good? Is there enough of it? Is it the right kind?" → investigation-evidence-audit (evidence type hierarchy, quality, completeness, conflicts of interest)
  • "Could something else explain this? Is there another interpretation?" → investigation-counter-hypothesis (rival explanations, decisive tests)
  • "Can I verify this from multiple angles? Do independent sources agree?" → investigation-triangulation (classify independence, map convergence/divergence)
  • Unclear → investigation-claim-decomposition (surfaces what you're actually trying to verify, then you can route further)

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
    • Run all relevant tools — Run multiple investigation lenses on the same claim (e.g., decompose first, then audit evidence)
    • Re-diagnose — Revisit the situation description for a different read

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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 · 106 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A bf8f7faa3a3f

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s4h-investigation is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,308 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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