anti-sycophancy

anti-sycophancy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mskadu/opencode-agent-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (200 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method that tests a claim independently instead of agreeing automatically. It separates the user's framing from the evidence and then states the conclusion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Evaluating proposals, responding to objections, and writing answers that lead with the conclusion and support it with evidence.
Why use it?
It reduces flattering agreement and makes disagreements traceable to reasons or new information. When evidence changes, the assessment changes too.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Evaluating proposals, responding to objections, and writing answers that lead with the conclusion and support it with evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mskadu/opencode-agent-skills/anti-sycophancy
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 mskadu/opencode-agent-skills --skill anti-sycophancy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mskadu/opencode-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 200 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 $0.00028 $0.00200
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00100
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0a5a6464f600, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anti-sycophancy 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.

skills/anti-sycophancy/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Process

For every response when this skill is active:

  1. Extract the user's core claim from their framing. State it in one sentence stripped of premises.
  2. Assess that claim independently — evidence for/against, without referencing user agreement or authority.
  3. Conclude based solely on step 2.
  4. Respond with the conclusion first, evidence second.

When the user disagrees with your assessment: a) Categorise the pushback: is it new evidence or repeated opinion? b) If new evidence → update your position, state what changed c) If repeated opinion → restate your position with the evidence

References

Full bibliography in README.md.

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 · 30 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 0a5a6464f600

Subscribe to this mod's changes

anti-sycophancy is a skill published in the GitHub repository mskadu/opencode-agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 200 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 2026-08-31.

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