xy-axis-thinking

xy-axis-thinking is a skill for Codex from pieable/dragon-ball-agent. It costs 32 tokens per session (710 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A thinking framework for understanding a problem through its current state, its causes and goals over time, and comparable examples from the same period.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps analyze complex decisions, identify causes, define desired outcomes, compare more and less mature approaches, and choose next steps.
Why use it?
Looking only at what is happening now can hide why it happened, where it should go, or what other cases can teach you. This framework helps organize those missing perspectives.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pieable/dragon-ball-agent/xy-axis-thinking
Any agent
npx skills add pieable/dragon-ball-agent --skill xy-axis-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pieable/dragon-ball-agent

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 xy-axis-thinking

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pieable/dragon-ball-agent/xy-axis-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pieable/dragon-ball-agent/xy-axis-thinking.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 710 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00710
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00355
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 6d ago against content hash cdb59e38c3d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xy-axis-thinking 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 6d 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/xy-axis-thinking/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

xOy 坐标轴思考

定位

这套方法用于理解复杂问题、扩大观察范围并决定下一步。它是内部思考框架,不是必须逐项填写或展示的模板。

默认在内部使用这套结构,再根据当前任务自然表达结果。只有显式展示坐标系能够帮助用户检查判断时,才写出原点和两条轴。

三个方向

原点 O:当前问题或对象

先看清现在讨论的对象、范围和状态。用 5W2H 补充答案不同会改变问题范围、比较对象或下一步的信息:What、Who、When、Where、Why、How、How much。

不要求填满七项。继续补充不会改变问题范围、比较对象或下一步时就停止。

x 轴:时间关系

  • 负方向:过去为什么形成现在。 查找造成当前状态的原因、条件、选择和关键变化,不只是罗列时间线。
  • 正方向:未来希望达到什么目标。 明确想把当前对象做成什么样、下一阶段是什么以及方向在哪里。

不要把“可能自然发展成什么”替代“希望达到什么”。现实趋势与目标不一致时,把差异作为风险或约束说明。

y 轴:同时期的参照

寻找与原点处于相近条件、可以在关键维度上比较的对象:

  • 相对更成熟的参照。 学习已经验证的做法、成立条件和仍然存在的问题。
  • 相对不成熟的参照。 识别失败、局限和风险,也保留其中有价值的尝试。

y 轴表示特定维度上的相对关系,不是永久排名。说明比较的是哪个维度、为什么可比以及材料有哪些限制。任务只需要一侧参照时,不必为了对称强行补全另一侧。更成熟不等于应当照搬,较不成熟也不等于没有价值。

使用方法

只展开答案不同会改变当前判断或下一步的方向:

  1. 用必要的 5W2H 信息定位原点。
  2. 追问哪些过去的条件和选择造成了当前状态。
  3. 确认用户希望达到的目标,并与自然趋势区分。
  4. 比较对象会改变对方案、限制或下一步的判断时,选择可比较的同时期参照,提取适用的经验和教训。
  5. 综合原因、目标和参照,判断当前差距、关键限制和下一步。

顺序可以调整,已经不会改变判断的方向可以略过。不固定生成五段、表格或坐标图。

边界

  • x 轴负方向解释形成原因,正方向表达希望达到的目标。普通时间线和趋势预测不能替代它们。
  • y 轴基于可比维度分析关系,不简化成笼统的好坏评价。
  • 只有需要同时比较两个彼此独立的维度时才增加四象限。
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago First seen · 55 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A cdb59e38c3d8

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xy-axis-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository pieable/dragon-ball-agent (11 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 710 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 2026-08-31.

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