diverge

diverge is a skill for Claude Code from larsboes/Axon. It costs 156 tokens per session (1,270 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An idea-generation workflow that creates distinct candidate options, removes weaker ones, and passes the remaining options to later decision steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Generating and narrowing options for a decision or goal before comparison or review.
Why use it?
It solves the problem of starting a decision process with no alternatives, while reducing a list of similar or weak ideas.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the deliberation plugin — 5 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Generating and narrowing options for a decision or goal before comparison or review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/larsboes/axon/diverge
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 larsboes/Axon --skill diverge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/larsboes/Axon

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install deliberation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 8 agents.

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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,270 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 $0.00156 $0.01270
Opus 5.5 $0.00062 $0.00508
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00127

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4774f1310bf2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diverge 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 1mo 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.

Packs/deliberation/skills/diverge/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

diverge

Every other capability in this pack needs options to already exist. council needs two or more, red-team needs one proposal, crystallize needs notes, root-cause needs a failure. Nothing produces candidates. This is that missing half, and it is deliberately the only skill here that generates rather than judges.

Generating is the easy half and the model does it freely. The work is breadth that is real and then winnowing, which is why this skill spends most of its words on the second.

Procedure

- [ ] 1. State what the candidates are candidates FOR
- [ ] 2. Name the generators, one per candidate
- [ ] 3. Produce the pile, one candidate per generator
- [ ] 4. Winnow with `narrow`
- [ ] 5. Hand the survivors on

1 — State the target. A pile without a question is a list. Write the decision or the goal the candidates are meant to serve, and if the caller gave a topic rather than a question, confirm the restatement with ask first — council's references/compose.md says how, and the same reasoning applies: a pile generated against the wrong target is entirely wasted work.

2 — Name the generators before producing anything. Pick five to eight and write them down. The list is what makes the breadth checkable afterwards:

Generator The question it asks
Analogy What solved a structurally similar problem somewhere else?
Inversion What if we did the opposite, or optimised for the thing we are avoiding?
Constraint removal Which constraint, if it vanished, would make this easy?
Extreme scale What would this look like at 100x, or at 1/100th?
Recombination Which two things we already have, combined, answer this?
Elimination What if we removed the part everyone assumes is required?
Precedent What did this repository already try and abandon, and why?

3 — Produce one candidate per generator. One. Not five from analogy and one from everything else, which is what happens when the first idea is good. If a generator yields nothing, say so and name it — an empty generator is a finding, and it is often the most interesting line in the pile.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 1mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 4774f1310bf2

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diverge is a skill published in the GitHub repository larsboes/Axon (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 1,270 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-23.

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