what-if-oracle

what-if-oracle is a skill for Claude Code from Lord1Egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit. It costs 123 tokens per session (1,971 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of what-if-oracle, MIT.

A structured method for exploring several possible outcomes of a hypothetical change or event. It maps different branches, along with the assumptions and consequences for each path.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for best-case and worst-case analysis, risk assessment, decision planning, and exploring what could happen after a proposed change.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of treating an uncertain future as a single prediction. Comparing branches makes potential risks, decisions, and follow-up actions easier to examine.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for best-case and worst-case analysis, risk assessment, decision planning, and exploring what could happen after a proposed change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lord1egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit/what-if-oracle
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 Lord1Egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit --skill what-if-oracle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lord1Egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,971 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00123 $0.01971
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00986
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00197

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6696e69bfae3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

what-if-oracle 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 9d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to what-if-oracle — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

scientific-skills/what-if-oracle/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What-If Oracle — Possibility Space Explorer

A structured system for exploring uncertain futures through rigorous multi-branch scenario analysis. Instead of one prediction, the Oracle maps the full possibility space — branching timelines where each path has its own logic, probability, and consequences.

Based on the What-If Statement paradigm: the idea that speculative questions ("What if X?") are not idle daydreaming but a fundamental computing operation — the mind's way of simulating futures before committing resources to one.

Published research: The What-If Statement (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18736841) | IDNA Consolidation v2 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18807387)

Core Principle: 0·IF·1

Every scenario analysis has three elements:

  • 0 — The unexpressed state (what hasn't happened yet, the potential)
  • 1 — The expressed state (what IS, the current reality)
  • IF — The conditional bond (the decision, event, or change that transforms 0 into 1)

The quality of the analysis depends on the precision of the IF. A vague "what if things go wrong?" produces vague results. A precise "what if our primary supplier raises prices 30% in Q3?" produces actionable intelligence.

How to Run the Oracle

Phase 1 — Frame the Question

Take the user's What-If question and sharpen it:

Decompose into components:

  • The Variable: What specific thing changes? (one variable per analysis)
  • The Magnitude: By how much? (quantify if possible)
  • The Timeframe: Over what period?
  • The Context: What's the current state before the change?

If the question is vague, sharpen it:

  • "What if AI takes over?" → "What if 40% of current knowledge-work tasks are automated by AI within 3 years in [specific industry]?"
  • "What if we fail?" → "What if monthly revenue stays below $5K for 6 consecutive months starting now?"

Present the sharpened question to the user for confirmation before proceeding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 9d ago First seen · 169 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 6696e69bfae3

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what-if-oracle is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lord1Egypt/scientific-agent-toolkit (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 1,971 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to what-if-oracle, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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