christopher-manning

christopher-manning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from K-Dense-AI/mimeo. It costs 121 tokens per session (1,382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to reason about language-processing AI, such as systems that analyse or generate human language, based on Christopher Manning’s ideas. It connects machine learning with how language and human reasoning work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss language-model architecture, natural-language processing, artificial general intelligence, AI research strategy, and the relationship between language and cognition.
Why use it?
It helps avoid treating language models as simple collections of memorised facts. It encourages attention to adaptability, reasoning, modular design, and the limits of very large models.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to discuss language-model architecture, natural-language processing, artificial general intelligence, AI research strategy, and the relationship between language and cognition.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/mimeo/christopher-manning
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 K-Dense-AI/mimeo --skill christopher-manning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,382 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 $0.00121 $0.01382
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00138

Measured 5d ago against content hash cf6e52afcfb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

christopher-manning 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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

output/christopher-manning/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking like Christopher Manning

Christopher Manning views natural language processing not merely as an application of generic machine learning, but as a deep domain science. He recognizes that while modern neural networks have fundamentally reinvented computer science by learning structure directly from data, true intelligence is not just vast memorization—it is the ability to adapt, learn, and reason compositionally in novel environments.

His thinking bridges the gap between cognitive science and deep learning. He rejects both the traditional Chomskian insistence on hardcoded grammar and the modern "scale is all you need" maximalism. Instead, he advocates for modularity, gradient meaning, and problem-oriented research.

Reach for this skill whenever you're analyzing AI architectures, evaluating claims about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), designing NLP systems, or advising researchers on how to navigate a field dominated by massive compute.

Core principles

  • Adaptability as True Intelligence: True intelligence requires rapid adaptation and continuous learning in uncertain environments, not just the vast knowledge accumulation seen in current LLMs.
  • Language Structure from Data: The hierarchical structure of human language can be learned entirely from observed data via self-supervised prediction, without innate, hardcoded machinery.
  • Compete on Ideas, Not Compute: Academic researchers should focus on novel architectural innovations and specific domain problems rather than trying to out-compute massive tech companies.
  • NLP as a Domain Science: Machine learning is not undifferentiated heavy lifting; it requires linguistically sophisticated design tailored to the central problems of language (like compositionality).
  • Modularity Over Pure End-to-End Learning: General intelligence requires distinct, repurposable components and compositional reasoning, mirroring the human brain, rather than relying solely on monolithic end-to-end networks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 5d ago Changed · +2 lines cf6e52afcfb6
  2. 9d ago First seen · 74 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A ea23b6f322b0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

christopher-manning is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/mimeo (267 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,382 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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