de-spin

de-spin is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (2,248 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for checking whether persuasive messages, advertisements, articles, policies, or viral posts are supported, misleading, false, complicated, or unknown.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps examine claims, trace their evidence, identify missing context, assess possible deception, and judge how confident the conclusion should be.
Why use it?
It helps separate evidence from emotional pressure, selective framing, social proof, urgency, and unsupported conclusions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps examine claims, trace their evidence, identify missing context, assess possible deception, and judge how confident the conclusion should be.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/de-spin
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 magnus919/agent-skills --skill de-spin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin de-spin/plugin install de-spin after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for de-spin

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for de-spin

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,248 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 $0.00092 $0.02248
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01124
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00225

Measured 10d ago against content hash f209d2cbf869, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

de-spin 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 10d 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.

de-spin/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

De-Spin

Use this skill to determine whether a persuasive message earns its conclusion. The goal is calibrated judgment, not reflexive distrust: distinguish supported, false, misleading, complicated, and unknown without turning missing evidence into proof of deception.

Non-negotiable rules

  • Judge claims and evidence, not the speaker’s body language, confidence, political identity, or presumed motive.
  • A literally true sentence may still be misleading when its likely implication, baseline, conditions, or typical outcome is withheld.
  • Do not call a claim false unless credible evidence directly contradicts it. Use unsupported or unknown when evidence is absent or inaccessible.
  • Treat repetition, reposts, and a network of affiliated outlets as one evidence stream until independent origins are established.
  • Match verification effort to stakes. Slow down before health, financial, legal, security, reputational, or irreversible decisions.

Workflow

1. Define the decision and claim boundary

State what decision the message is trying to move: belief, purchase, share, vote, authorization, or action. Extract each checkable claim separately. Do not audit a paragraph as one unit when it contains several factual assertions.

Classify each claim:

  • Factual: observable or measurable now or historically.
  • Predictive: about a future outcome; evaluate assumptions and base rates.
  • Causal: says X caused Y; requires more than correlation or anecdote.
  • Normative: value judgment; clarify values rather than pretending it is a fact.
  • Identity or motive: usually cannot be resolved from the message alone; do not speculate.

2. Make the implied claim explicit

For each factual, predictive, or causal claim, write five fields:

Field Question
Literal claim What exactly was said?
Likely implication What would a reasonable person infer?
Missing context Which denominator, baseline, timeframe, eligibility rule, or counterexample could change that impression?
Required evidence What source, data, method, or record would make this checkable?
Disconfirming evidence What would show the claim is wrong or materially incomplete?

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 10d ago First seen · 142 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A f209d2cbf869

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de-spin is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 2,248 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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