mapping-concept-lineage

mapping-concept-lineage is a skill for Claude Code from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers. It costs 36 tokens per session (2,048 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research method for tracing how a humanities concept was named, changed, translated, debated, and used over time. It also distinguishes the concept from related terms and checks whether a claimed idea is genuinely new.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconstruct a concept's history from supplied sources, record competing definitions and translations, map inheritance or rejection between versions, and decide whether to rename, narrow, combine, or abandon the concept.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of using a theory name inaccurately, importing modern meanings into older texts, or presenting an existing idea as original. It makes the concept's boundaries and unresolved ambiguities explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the humanities-superpowers plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to reconstruct a concept's history from supplied sources, record competing definitions and translations, map inheritance or rejection between versions, and decide whether to rename, narrow, combine, or abandon the concept.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/mapping-concept-lineage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers --skill mapping-concept-lineage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install humanities-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,048 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 $0.00036 $0.02048
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01024
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00205

Measured 9d ago against content hash bdac9b31c23c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mapping-concept-lineage 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/mapping-concept-lineage/SKILL.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mapping a Concept Lineage

Purpose

Reconstruct how a concept is named, transformed, contested, translated, and operationalized across relevant sources. The skill prevents theory-name accumulation, anachronism, and the presentation of a relabeled inherited concept as wholly original.

Contract

Accepts

  • One focal concept or term.
  • A bounded research question and scope.
  • Researcher-supplied sources, definitions, notes, or candidate predecessors.

Requires

  • A working description of how the concept functions in the present project.
  • At least one verified or researcher-supplied source associated with the concept.
  • A declared language and disciplinary context where translation matters.

Produces

  • A set of ConceptRecord entries.
  • A lineage map showing inheritance, modification, rejection, and unresolved ambiguity.
  • A boundary statement distinguishing the focal concept from adjacent terms.
  • A novelty-status statement limited to what has actually been checked.
  • A concept-lineage gate report.

May produce

  • Competing lineage models.
  • A translation ledger.
  • A recommendation to rename, narrow, merge, or abandon the focal concept.

Fails when

  • No source text or reliable definition is available for central predecessors.
  • The proposed lineage is based only on name resemblance.
  • Chronology or translation is invented.
  • The researcher demands an originality claim before literature verification.

Guarantees

  • Each lineage relation will be labeled as verified, supported, inferred, disputed, or unknown.
  • Similarity, influence, inheritance, and direct citation will not be treated as equivalent.
  • Concept boundaries and unresolved translation issues will remain visible.

Does not guarantee

  • A complete intellectual history.
  • Direct influence between thinkers unless documentary evidence supports it.
  • That a newly coined term is original or useful.

When to use

Use when a manuscript introduces a new concept, combines theorists from different traditions, translates key terms, or relies on a familiar term whose meaning shifts across periods. Use before presenting a concept as an intervention and before building an argument that depends on stable terminology.

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 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 · 278 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A bdac9b31c23c

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mapping-concept-lineage is a skill published in the GitHub repository icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers (16 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,048 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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