planning-humanities-argument

planning-humanities-argument is a skill for Claude Code from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,047 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill for turning a humanities research question and source collection into an ordered argument plan. Humanities research studies people, culture, history, and ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an argument map, section sequence, evidence-gap list, and a report showing whether the plan has enough support.
Why use it?
It makes the links between claims, evidence, reasoning, objections, and sections visible before they are hidden in a draft.

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 create an argument map, section sequence, evidence-gap list, and a report showing whether the plan has enough support.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/planning-humanities-argument
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 icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers --skill planning-humanities-argument
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 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,047 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 $0.00041 $0.02047
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01024
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00205

Measured 9d ago against content hash 556ccd4f08b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

planning-humanities-argument 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/planning-humanities-argument/SKILL.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Planning a Humanities Argument

Purpose

Convert a research question and bounded source base into an explicit argument architecture. The skill makes inferential dependencies visible before prose hides them. It does not manufacture a thesis, create evidence, or convert thematic organization into argument by tone alone.

Contract

Accepts

  • A ResearchQuestion, ScopeBoundary, provisional thesis, source inventory, and notes.
  • Optional venue constraints, word limit, disciplinary expectations, and section drafts.

Requires

  • A research question that can be answered propositionally.
  • A provisional thesis supplied or approved by the researcher.
  • At least one identifiable evidence class for every major claim.
  • A declared scope boundary.

Produces

  • One argument map composed of Claim, EvidenceItem, Inference, ArgumentNode, and Objection records.
  • A dependency-ordered section plan.
  • An evidence-gap register.
  • An argument-planning gate report.

May produce

  • Alternative architectures when more than one defensible sequence exists.
  • CONDITIONAL PASS when the structure is usable but evidence or warrants remain incomplete.
  • FAIL when the thesis cannot be decomposed into supportable claims.

Fails when

  • The thesis is only a topic, slogan, moral preference, or conclusion copied from the prompt.
  • A major claim lacks both evidence and a feasible evidence plan.
  • Section order depends on concepts not yet defined or claims not yet established.
  • The requested architecture requires invented evidence or literature consensus.

Guarantees

  • Every major claim is paired with an explicit warrant and evidence status.
  • Section order reflects argumentative dependency rather than topic sequence alone.
  • Missing inferential work remains visible.

Does not guarantee

  • That the thesis is true, original, significant, or publishable.
  • That planned evidence will ultimately support the claim.
  • That a complete map will yield persuasive prose without further scholarly judgment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 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 · 252 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 556ccd4f08b3

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planning-humanities-argument is a skill published in the GitHub repository icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers (16 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,047 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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