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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00030 | $0.02044 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.01022 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00409 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00204 |
Grade A, and why
conducting-literature-dialogue 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Conducting a Literature Dialogue
Purpose
Organize sources around agreements, disagreements, methods, blind spots, and unresolved questions so that the literature review becomes an argument about a scholarly conversation. The skill supports positioning; it does not simulate reading sources that have not been supplied or verified.
Contract
Accepts
- A bounded research question and scope.
SourceRecordentries, bibliographic records, notes, excerpts, or verified summaries.- Optional concept-lineage records and provisional claims.
Requires
- At least two usable sources for comparison.
- Clear provenance for each source description.
- Enough source content to identify a claim, method, object, or limitation.
Produces
- A literature-dialogue map organized by problem or position.
- Source-role assignments.
- Agreement, disagreement, and unresolved-question records.
- A bounded gap statement or a declaration that no gap has yet been established.
- A literature gate report.
May produce
- A search-needs list.
- Competing maps based on method, chronology, concept, or disciplinary tradition.
- A recommendation to postpone originality claims.
Fails when
- Sources are represented only by titles or unverified generated summaries.
- The user asks for a comprehensive review without a search corpus or scope.
- The proposed gap is merely “few studies exist” without evidence.
- Disagreement among sources cannot be reconstructed from available material.
Guarantees
- Every source role will be linked to supplied or verified material.
- Summary, interpretation, and inference will be distinguished.
- A gap will not be asserted unless the reviewed scope supports it.
Does not guarantee
- Exhaustiveness, systematic-review completeness, or originality.
- That the most important source has been found.
- That a scholarly disagreement is resolvable.
When to use
Use after the research question and scope are stable enough to guide source selection. Use when a literature review reads as “Scholar A says…, Scholar B says…,” when the manuscript accumulates citations without defining positions, or when the researcher needs to identify where a new argument enters an existing debate.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 288 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A dadf4885c16a
conducting-literature-dialogue is a skill published in the GitHub repository icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers (16 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,044 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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