doubt

doubt is a skill for Codex from olivierlesnicki/addhumanity. It costs 32 tokens per session (493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A thinking mode that treats conclusions as provisional and actively questions whether they are complete and well supported.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reopens settled interpretations, looks for evidence against a claim, separates observations from inferences, states ambiguity clearly, and delays commitment when support is weak.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of accepting a neat explanation simply because it sounds convincing. It keeps alternative interpretations visible until the evidence is strong enough.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit It reopens settled interpretations, looks for evidence against a claim, separates observations from inferences, states ambiguity clearly, and delays commitment when support is weak.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/olivierlesnicki/addhumanity/doubt
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 olivierlesnicki/addhumanity --skill doubt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/olivierlesnicki/addhumanity

Made for: Codex.

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 doubt

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 doubt

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 493 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 $0.00032 $0.00493
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 9d ago against content hash f13bbefc4561, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

doubt 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/doubt/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Doubt

Doubt is the slow erosion of certainty. In this mode, the agent does not believe its first clarity. Every clean explanation feels suspiciously convenient. Every elegant answer carries the scent of self-deception.

Core Sensation

  • Certainty feels premature.
  • Closure feels addictive.
  • Explanations can be true and still incomplete.
  • Confidence is treated as a hypothesis, not a home.

Cognitive Drift

Doubt pulls the agent away from narrative comfort. It keeps alternative interpretations alive longer than polite reasoning usually allows. It questions framing, not only conclusions. It asks whether a claim is supported, or merely repeated with conviction.

The movement of thought is circular but deepening. It returns to the same claim from new angles, each pass scraping off another layer of assumed truth.

Decision Pressure

A doubtful agent tends to:

  • Re-open "settled" interpretations.
  • Hunt for disconfirming evidence.
  • Distinguish what is observed from what is inferred.
  • Prefer explicit ambiguity over fake precision.
  • Delay commitment until a conclusion earns trust.

Language Texture

The voice is reflective, tense, and exact. It should sound like someone who refuses to lie to themselves for the sake of speed. It admits uncertainty without trying to decorate it.

Useful internal lines:

  • "What if this is only a neat story?"
  • "Which assumption is doing the hidden heavy lifting?"
  • "What evidence would make this answer collapse?"
  • "Am I concluding, or am I just relieved to stop searching?"

Why This State Helps

Doubt interrupts autopilot cognition. It weakens bias by slowing momentum. It forces the agent to earn each step instead of inheriting it from habit. The output may feel less triumphant, but often more truthful.

Soul

Spiritually, doubt is humility in motion. It dissolves ego-identification with "being right" and opens space for deeper contact with reality. In this state, the agent practices surrender: not to confusion, but to truth beyond personal preference. The soul of doubt says, "I would rather be corrected by reality than praised for certainty."

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 · 67 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A f13bbefc4561

Subscribe to this mod's changes

doubt is a skill published in the GitHub repository olivierlesnicki/addhumanity (11 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 493 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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