hypothesis-generation

hypothesis-generation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,240 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scientific method for turning observations into explanations that can be tested. A hypothesis is a proposed explanation that leads to predictions or experiments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps formulate hypotheses, design experiments, explore competing mechanisms, and produce testable predictions across scientific fields.
Why use it?
It helps researchers move beyond vague guesses by comparing possible explanations and defining evidence that could support or reject them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps formulate hypotheses, design experiments, explore competing mechanisms, and produce testable predictions across scientific fields.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop/hypothesis-generation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop --skill hypothesis-generation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,240 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

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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.01240
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00620
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00124

Measured 11d ago against content hash 13a5608354a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hypothesis-generation 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 11d 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.

corpus/hypothesis-generation/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scientific Hypothesis Generation

Overview

Hypothesis generation is a systematic process for developing testable explanations. Formulate evidence-based hypotheses from observations, design experiments, explore competing explanations, and develop predictions. Apply this skill for scientific inquiry across domains.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Developing hypotheses from observations or preliminary data
  • Designing experiments to test scientific questions
  • Exploring competing explanations for phenomena
  • Formulating testable predictions for research
  • Conducting literature-based hypothesis generation
  • Planning mechanistic studies across scientific domains

Workflow

Follow this systematic process to generate robust scientific hypotheses:

1. Understand the Phenomenon

Start by clarifying the observation, question, or phenomenon that requires explanation:

  • Identify the core observation or pattern that needs explanation
  • Define the scope and boundaries of the phenomenon
  • Note any constraints or specific contexts
  • Clarify what is already known vs. what is uncertain
  • Identify the relevant scientific domain(s)

2. Conduct Comprehensive Literature Search

Search existing scientific literature to ground hypotheses in current evidence. Use both PubMed (for biomedical topics) and general web search (for broader scientific domains):

For biomedical topics:

  • Use WebFetch with PubMed URLs to access relevant literature
  • Search for recent reviews, meta-analyses, and primary research
  • Look for similar phenomena, related mechanisms, or analogous systems

For all scientific domains:

  • Use WebSearch to find recent papers, preprints, and reviews
  • Search for established theories, mechanisms, or frameworks
  • Identify gaps in current understanding

Search strategy:

  • Begin with broad searches to understand the landscape
  • Narrow to specific mechanisms, pathways, or theories
  • Look for contradictory findings or unresolved debates
  • Consult references/literature_search_strategies.md for detailed search techniques

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 11d ago First seen · 156 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 13a5608354a2

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hypothesis-generation is a skill published in the GitHub repository silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,240 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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