hypothesis-tester

hypothesis-tester is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JansenAnalytics/claudex. It costs 59 tokens per session (864 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured comparison tool that has multiple positions argue for and against options in an analytical question. It is designed to expose trade-offs and reduce confirmation bias—the tendency to favour evidence that supports an existing view.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare approaches, evaluate risks, examine trade-offs, and support decisions about which option to choose.
Why use it?
It gives competing options separate consideration before a conclusion is formed. This can make decisions clearer when several choices have valid advantages and risks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to compare approaches, evaluate risks, examine trade-offs, and support decisions…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jansenanalytics/claudex/hypothesis-tester
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 JansenAnalytics/claudex --skill hypothesis-tester
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 864 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.
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 $0.00059 $0.00864
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00086

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1af5d5759585, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hypothesis-tester 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 3d 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/hypothesis-tester/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hypothesis Tester Skill

Use when: the user asks an analytical question with multiple valid answers, tradeoffs between options, or when you want to avoid confirmation bias in your analysis.

Trigger phrases: "which is better", "compare options", "what's the risk", "tradeoffs", "should we", "evaluate", "debate"

Workflow

1. Create debate session

node ${HYPOTHESIS_TESTER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/hypothesis-tester}/new-debate.cjs \
  --question "Full question here" \
  --positions "option-a,option-b,option-c" \
  [--context "Relevant context: metrics, constraints, goals"]

2. Spawn sub-agents (using sessions_spawn / subagents tool)

Read the output from step 1. For each position:

  • Read the prompt file content: cat ${HYPOTHESIS_TESTER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/hypothesis-tester}/sessions/<id>/prompt-<position>.md
  • Use the subagent spawning mechanism with that content as the task
  • Sub-agent will write its analysis to the output file automatically
subagents.spawn(
  task="[content of prompt file]",
  model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
  label="debate-<session>-<position>"
)

Note: Kite must do this step in-session (scripts cannot spawn sub-agents).

3. After all sub-agents complete, synthesize

node ${HYPOTHESIS_TESTER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/hypothesis-tester}/synthesize.cjs --session <id> --send

Commands

Command Purpose
node ${HYPOTHESIS_TESTER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/hypothesis-tester}/new-debate.cjs --question "..." --positions "a,b,c" Start a new debate
node ${HYPOTHESIS_TESTER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/hypothesis-tester}/list-debates.cjs List all sessions
node ${HYPOTHESIS_TESTER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/hypothesis-tester}/synthesize.cjs --session <id> Synthesize results
node ${HYPOTHESIS_TESTER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/hypothesis-tester}/synthesize.cjs --session <id> --send Synthesize + send to Telegram
node ${HYPOTHESIS_TESTER_HOME:-$HOME/projects/hypothesis-tester}/add-position.cjs --session <id> --position <slug> --file <path> Manually add a position

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 79 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 1af5d5759585

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hypothesis-tester is a skill published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 864 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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