s4h-investigation-triangulation

s4h-investigation-triangulation is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,799 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for checking a claim against genuinely independent sources. It distinguishes separate confirmation from many sources repeating the same original report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify research findings, news claims, or important statements by comparing different methods, investigators, populations, or time periods.
Why use it?
It prevents a large number of references from creating a false sense of certainty.

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 verify research findings, news claims, or important statements by comparing different methods, investigators, populations, or time periods.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-investigation-triangulation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-investigation-triangulation
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 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,799 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 $0.00081 $0.01799
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00899
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00180

Measured 9d ago against content hash 98b4dd7ac028, 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-triangulation 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-triangulation/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investigation: Triangulation

More sources does not mean better verification. If ten publications all cite the same original study, you have one data point with ten references — not ten data points. True triangulation requires genuinely independent sources: different methods, different investigators, different populations, different time periods. Convergence among truly independent sources is strong evidence. Convergence among sources that all trace back to the same origin is amplification, not corroboration. This skill teaches the difference and makes it operational.


Your Process

Step 1: State the Claim Write out the claim you want to triangulate, precisely. Vague claims are hard to triangulate because different sources may be speaking to different aspects.

Framing check: Confirm the specific claim before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual claim being triangulated and its scope — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the claim and its scope]. 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 claim than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Step 2: Collect Candidate Sources List all sources that appear to speak to the claim:

  • Studies, papers, reports
  • Expert statements
  • Data sets or statistics
  • News reports or analyses
  • Firsthand accounts or observations

Do not filter for independence yet — that's the next step.

Step 3: Classify Independence For each source, trace its origin and classify its independence from other sources on your list:

Independence Level Definition
Fully independent Different investigators, methods, population, and time period; no data sharing or cross-referencing
Methodologically independent Different methods and investigators but applied to the same data set or population
Structurally dependent Cites a common primary source; draws from shared underlying data
Direct derivative Is a summary, report, or commentary on another source on the list
Unknown Origin cannot be traced; independence cannot be assessed

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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 · 154 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 98b4dd7ac028

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s4h-investigation-triangulation is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,799 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 2026-09-03.

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