catalog

catalog is a skill for Claude Code from jongwony/epistemic-protocols. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,519 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference handbook for choosing among available reasoning protocols, which are defined methods for handling different kinds of work or uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to browse protocols by group, look up a command, or match a current situation to a recommended method.
Why use it?
It helps you find the relevant protocol without browsing every option or guessing which command fits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

Not installable on its own: it runs a file from its repository that does not travel with it. Clone the repository, or install whatever ships that file. The line is node scripts/generate-routing-map.js.

Part of the epistemic-cooperative plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jongwony/epistemic-protocols
Claude Code
/plugin install epistemic-cooperative

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install epistemic-cooperative, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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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.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,519 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 $0.00016 $0.01519
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00759
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00152

Measured yesterday against content hash 2169e9b3cda8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

catalog 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/session-context.js), 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.

epistemic-cooperative/skills/catalog/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Catalog Skill

Instant reference handbook for the epistemic protocols. Browse by cluster, look up by command, or find the right protocol for a situation.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when:

  • Quick reference: "which protocol handles X?"
  • Browsing: exploring available protocols without commitment
  • Situation lookup: matching a current situation to the right protocol

Skip when:

  • Guided learning with practice and quizzes (use /onboard)

Argument Handling

Invocation Behavior
/catalog Overview: all protocols grouped by cluster, 1-line each + usage hints
/catalog {cluster} Cluster detail: expanded protocol cards with scenarios
/catalog {command} Single protocol detail: full card from scenarios.md

Argument normalization: case-insensitive, accepts /command or bare name (e.g., /catalog inquire = /catalog /inquire = /catalog Aitesis).

Protocol Catalog

Planning

Protocol Command When to Use
Aitesis /inquire Context is insufficient for confident execution
Euporia /elicit Intent articulated but decision coordinates implicit in externalized substrate — reverse-trace to surface
Heuresis /ideate Object-level candidate field is empty or has prematurely converged — widen it before any selection is made
Proplasma /preview Right before a direction commitment when the candidates cannot be judged from descriptions — contrast cheap discard-committed placeholder probes, then decide on recognized futures

Analysis

Protocol Command When to Use
Prothesis /frame No framework — need one or more analytical lenses placed before any perspective-requiring analysis begins
Analogia /ground An abstract idea's correspondence to a concrete domain is uncertain — needs structural grounding, not just assertion
Periagoge /induce One or more concrete cases accumulating into an unnamed essence — crystallize the emerging abstraction

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday Changed · -8 lines 2169e9b3cda8
  2. 2d ago Changed 42095c183a7c
  3. 6d ago First seen · 138 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 92a916abf466

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catalog is a skill published in the GitHub repository jongwony/epistemic-protocols (160 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,519 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.