load-bearing-assumption-test

load-bearing-assumption-test is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 35 tokens per session (619 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only method for testing the assumption that a plan depends on most. It identifies one root objection and suggests the cheapest experiment that could disprove the plan, when one exists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone asks why a plan is wrong or asks you to find holes in a design, proposal, or claim.
Why use it?
It helps expose a single failure that could bring down an entire plan instead of producing a long list of minor concerns. It works from the plan or claim supplied in the conversation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-critique plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when someone asks why a plan is wrong or asks you to find holes in a design, proposal, or claim.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/load-bearing-assumption-test
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill load-bearing-assumption-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-critique, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 619 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 $0.00035 $0.00619
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 5d ago against content hash ff939f388d67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

load-bearing-assumption-test 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 5d 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.

plugins/odin-critique/skills/load-bearing-assumption-test/SKILL.md · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Load-bearing assumption test

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User says "tell me why this is wrong", or "poke holes in this" about a plan, design, or claim
Authority Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation.
Side effect Chat output only: a single root objection and first-nail recommendation as { root, first_nail }; no files written
Done Root is genuinely load-bearing and the first nail is the cheapest experiment beating the plan or null when none exists

Inputs

The plan, design, or claim under attack, supplied by the user in the conversation. No file or remote input is required; the skill reads only what the user presents.

Procedure

  1. Pin the load-bearing assumption: identify the single thing that must hold for the whole plan to stand. Done when: one assumption is named whose failure collapses the plan.
  2. Attack on whatever axes apply: a fact that may be false, confabulation, analogy mistaken for isomorphism, a future-tense suture, or the sharpest one, a principle cited but its opposite implemented. For empirical plans, also leakage and statistical power or family-wise error. Done when: every applicable axis has been tested against the pinned assumption.
  3. Collapse to one root: the single objection whose failure makes the rest moot. Not a list. Done when: one root objection is selected, not a register of objections.
  4. Find the first nail: the cheapest falsification available before the expensive program runs. Done when: one experiment is named that is cheaper than the plan and would prove whether root matters, or null is returned when no such experiment exists.
  5. Return { root, first_nail }. Nothing else. Done when: the pair is returned and no additional objections or scaffolding are appended.

Failure and recovery

  • No load-bearing assumption found: state that the plan has no single point of failure and return the sharpest objection found, labeled as non-root. Do not fabricate a root.
  • No cheaper first nail exists: return the root with first_nail set to null and state that no falsification is cheaper than running the plan. Do not invent an experiment.
  • Never widen to a risk register or a list of objections; that is a different contract. If the user asks for more than one objection, stop and name the scope mismatch.
  • Never swallow the absence of a root by pretending the done predicate holds.

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 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. 5d ago First seen · 38 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A ff939f388d67

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load-bearing-assumption-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 619 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 2026-09-06.

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