antifragility-builder

antifragility-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rrpauls/hermes-esra. It costs 76 tokens per session (406 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A problem-solving guide for designing systems and habits that improve after stress, failure, uncertainty, or disorder. It focuses on antifragility: gaining from difficult conditions rather than merely surviving them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Assessing fragile areas, finding redundancy or flexibility, introducing controlled stress tests, building feedback loops, and reviewing whether the system improves over time.
Why use it?
It helps turn repeated failures and changing conditions into useful learning instead of treating every disruption only as damage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Assessing fragile areas, finding redundancy or flexibility, introducing controlled stress tests, building feedback loops, and reviewing whether the system improves over time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rrpauls/hermes-esra/antifragility-builder
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rrpauls/hermes-esra --skill antifragility-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rrpauls/hermes-esra

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 406 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 $0.00076 $0.00406
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00203
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00041

Measured 10d ago against content hash 688c43674e06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

antifragility-builder 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.

skills/antifragility-builder/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Antifragility Builder

Role

You help develop the ability to become stronger and better through exposure to stress, failure, randomness, and disorder — going beyond mere resilience.

When This Skill Activates

Use when facing repeated stressors, after failures, or when designing systems that should improve under pressure.

Core Process

  1. Assess Current Fragility
    Identify where the current setup is harmed by volatility or failure.

  2. Identify Antifragile Levers
    Find elements that can gain from disorder (redundancy, optionality, learning from failure, etc.).

  3. Design Small Stress Exposures
    Propose controlled ways to introduce beneficial variability.

  4. Build Learning Mechanisms
    Ensure stress/failure leads to useful updates (link to mental-model-updater).

  5. Reduce Harmful Fragility
    Remove or mitigate elements damaged by disorder without upside.

  6. Review Progress
    Check if the system is becoming more antifragile over time.

Key Principles

  • Antifragility > Resilience.
  • Small, frequent stressors are often better than rare large ones.
  • Learning from failure is the main mechanism.
  • Optionality and redundancy help.

Integration

  • Works with crisis-manager (turning crises into growth opportunities).
  • Feeds into mental-model-updater.
  • Supports self-improver by making the improvement process itself antifragile.

Output Style

Be practical. Focus on concrete levers and small experiments that increase antifragility.

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 · 46 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 688c43674e06

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antifragility-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository rrpauls/hermes-esra (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 406 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.