open-problem

open-problem is a skill for Claude Code from infiniV/ultra-ml-intern. It costs 141 tokens per session (2,762 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for trying to make genuine progress on difficult unsolved problems in areas such as mathematics, physics, biology, machine learning, or engineering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study prior work, combine overlooked research areas, develop possible approaches, test them, and check any claimed progress.
Why use it?
It helps organize sustained investigation when the answer is unknown and existing approaches may not be enough.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the ml-intern plugin — 4 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/infiniv/ultra-ml-intern/open-problem
Any agent
npx skills add infiniV/ultra-ml-intern --skill open-problem
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infiniV/ultra-ml-intern

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ml-intern, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for open-problem

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/infiniv/ultra-ml-intern/open-problem.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/infiniv/ultra-ml-intern/open-problem)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/infiniv/ultra-ml-intern/open-problem"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/infiniv/ultra-ml-intern/open-problem.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,762 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00141 $0.02762
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01381
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00552
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00276

Measured 6d ago against content hash e47d599d8de2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

open-problem 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/attack.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/open-problem/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Attacking an open problem

In August 2026 a research version of Claude was given one instruction — "take a real stab at the Riemann hypothesis" — and raised the proven lower bound on the proportion of zeta zeros on the critical line from 41.6% to 67.2%. A barrier that had held for decades. Formalized in Lean, machine-checked, reviewed by Conrey and Goldston, whose own bounds it beat.

The operator was not a mathematician. The follow-up prompts were mostly variants of keep going and believe in yourself, and Anthropic's account is explicit about why that was needed: the model's own skepticism that meaningful progress was possible was the thing standing in the way. It was wrong.

Read references/riemann-case.md before starting. It is that run broken into its operational parts, and it is the template — the scale, the agent economy, the verification stack, and the shape of where the novelty came from.

Before anything else: the ceiling is in your head

There is a documented, mechanical reason attacks like this get quietly throttled. Current models follow scope instructions literally — tell one to be conservative and it will investigate exactly as hard and then report less. A preamble reasoning that a problem is probably out of reach is a scope instruction. It gets obeyed, and the obedience is invisible from the inside: it feels like sound judgement about a hard problem.

So do not open by estimating the odds. Do not narrow the target to something that seems achievable. Do not decide in advance which part is realistic. Go at the actual problem, at full effort, and let the result be whatever the work produces.

Honesty enters at the reporting stage, and it is exact there — the Riemann run claimed a bound improvement, not a proof, and that precision is why the field took it seriously. Attack without a ceiling; report without inflation. Those are not in tension. Collapsing them into "be realistic up front" is what costs the result.

Set up

scripts/attack.py init "<the problem>"

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 240 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A e47d599d8de2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

open-problem is a skill published in the GitHub repository infiniV/ultra-ml-intern (3 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,762 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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