Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add RudyCity/superagent --skill collision-zone-thinkinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RudyCity/superagentWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00024 | $0.00448 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00224 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00090 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00045 |
Grade A, and why
Collision-Zone 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 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to Collision-Zone Thinking — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
Collision-Zone Thinking
Overview
Revolutionary insights come from forcing unrelated concepts to collide. Treat X like Y and see what emerges.
Core principle: Deliberate metaphor-mixing generates novel solutions.
Quick Reference
| Stuck On | Try Treating As | Might Discover |
|---|---|---|
| Code organization | DNA/genetics | Mutation testing, evolutionary algorithms |
| Service architecture | Lego bricks | Composable microservices, plug-and-play |
| Data management | Water flow | Streaming, data lakes, flow-based systems |
| Request handling | Postal mail | Message queues, async processing |
| Error handling | Circuit breakers | Fault isolation, graceful degradation |
Process
- Pick two unrelated concepts from different domains
- Force combination: "What if we treated [A] like [B]?"
- Explore emergent properties: What new capabilities appear?
- Test boundaries: Where does the metaphor break?
- Extract insight: What did we learn?
Example Collision
Problem: Complex distributed system with cascading failures
Collision: "What if we treated services like electrical circuits?"
Emergent properties:
- Circuit breakers (disconnect on overload)
- Fuses (one-time failure protection)
- Ground faults (error isolation)
- Load balancing (current distribution)
Where it works: Preventing cascade failures Where it breaks: Circuits don't have retry logic Insight gained: Failure isolation patterns from electrical engineering
Red Flags You Need This
- "I've tried everything in this domain"
- Solutions feel incremental, not breakthrough
- Stuck in conventional thinking
- Need innovation, not optimization
Remember
- Wild combinations often yield best insights
- Test metaphor boundaries rigorously
- Document even failed collisions (they teach)
- Best source domains: physics, biology, economics, psychology
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 63 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 416850bf47da
Collision-Zone Thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository RudyCity/superagent (21 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 448 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to Collision-Zone Thinking, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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