synaptiai/agent-capability-standard

Agent Capability Standard is an open specification for composable AI agent capabilities. It defines 36 atomic capabilities across 9 cognitive layers, a type-safe workflow DSL, and grounded world modeling with trust-aware conflict resolution. Built on the Grounded Agency philosophy, it makes agent reliability structural—not optional.

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attribute

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Establish cause-effect relationships between events or states. Use when analyzing root causes, mapping dependencies, tracing effects, or building causal models.

4 2d ago A 29 tokens original Apache-2.0

audit

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Produce a comprehensive audit trail of actions, tools used, changes made, and decision rationale. Use when recording compliance evidence, tracking changes, or documenting decision lineage.

4 2d ago A 34 tokens original Apache-2.0

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Identify capability gaps and propose new skills with prioritization. Use when analyzing missing capabilities, planning skill development, performing ontology expansion, or assessing coverage.

4 2d ago A 34 tokens original Apache-2.0

checkpoint

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Create a safety checkpoint marker before mutation or execution steps. Use when about to modify files, execute plans, or perform any irreversible action. Essential for the CAVR pattern.

4 2d ago A 37 tokens original Apache-2.0

classify

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Assign labels or categories to items based on characteristics. Use when categorizing entities, tagging content, identifying types, or labeling data according to a taxonomy.

4 2d ago A 33 tokens original Apache-2.0

compare

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Compare multiple alternatives using explicit criteria, weighted scoring, and tradeoff analysis. Use when choosing between options, evaluating alternatives, or making decisions.

4 2d ago A 30 tokens original Apache-2.0

constrain

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Enforce policies, guardrails, and permission boundaries; refuse unsafe actions and apply least privilege. Use when evaluating actions against policies, checking permissions, or reducing scope to safe boundaries.

4 2d ago A 39 tokens original Apache-2.0

critique

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Find failure modes, edge cases, ambiguities, and exploit paths in plans, code, or designs. Use when reviewing proposals, auditing security, stress-testing logic, or validating assumptions.

4 2d ago A 40 tokens original Apache-2.0

debug-workflow

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Execute the Debug Code Change workflow end-to-end with safety gates. Use when debugging code changes, investigating issues, or performing root cause analysis with audit trail.

4 2d ago A 35 tokens original Apache-2.0

decompose

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Break a goal into subgoals, constraints, and acceptance criteria. Use when planning complex work, creating work breakdown structures, or defining requirements.

4 2d ago A 32 tokens original Apache-2.0

delegate

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Split work across subagents with explicit contracts, interfaces, and merge strategies. Use when parallelizing tasks, distributing workload, or orchestrating multi-agent workflows.

4 2d ago A 33 tokens original Apache-2.0

detect

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Determine whether a specific pattern, entity, or condition exists in the given data. Use when searching for patterns, checking existence, validating presence, or finding signals.

4 2d ago A 34 tokens original Apache-2.0

synaptiai/agent-capability-standard

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Build a rigorous world model with state, dynamics, uncertainty, and provenance. Use when creating digital twins, constructing system representations, building simulation foundations, or establishing baseline world state.

4 2d ago A 40 tokens original Apache-2.0

synaptiai/agent-capability-standard

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Run the digital twin sync loop to synchronize real-world signals with a digital model. Use when updating digital twins, detecting drift, managing real-time state synchronization, or maintaining model-reality alignment.

4 2d ago A 45 tokens original Apache-2.0

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Analyze a task description to detect required capabilities from the ontology, identify gaps, and synthesize a valid workflow automatically. Trigger: "discover capabilities", "what capabilities do I need", "analyze task", "synthesize workflow".

4 2d ago A 50 tokens original Apache-2.0

discover

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Find latent patterns, relationships, anomalies, or insights not explicitly specified. Use when exploring unknown structure, finding hidden connections, or uncovering emergent phenomena.

4 2d ago A 33 tokens original Apache-2.0

execute

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Run code or scripts deterministically with captured output. Use when running tests, executing build commands, invoking tools, or performing read-only operations that produce results.

4 2d ago A 33 tokens original Apache-2.0

explain

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Produce clear reasoning with assumptions, causal chains, and evidence. Use when clarifying decisions, teaching concepts, justifying recommendations, or documenting rationale.

4 2d ago A 32 tokens original Apache-2.0

generate

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Create a new artifact (text, code, plan, data) under specified constraints. Use when producing content, writing code, designing solutions, or synthesizing outputs.

4 2d ago A 35 tokens original Apache-2.0

ground

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Anchor claims to evidence from authoritative sources. Use when validating assertions, establishing provenance, verifying facts, or ensuring claims are supported by evidence.

4 2d ago A 29 tokens original Apache-2.0

inquire

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Request clarification when input is ambiguous. Use when user request has missing parameters, conflicting interpretations, or insufficient constraints for reliable execution.

4 2d ago A 28 tokens original Apache-2.0

integrate

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Combine heterogeneous data sources into a unified model with conflict resolution, schema alignment, and provenance tracking. Use when merging data from multiple systems, consolidating information, or building comprehensive views.

4 2d ago A 39 tokens original Apache-2.0

invoke

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Execute a composed workflow by name. Use when running predefined workflows, orchestrating multi-step processes, or delegating to workflow templates.

4 2d ago A 28 tokens original Apache-2.0

measure

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Quantify values with uncertainty bounds. Use when estimating metrics, calculating risk scores, assessing magnitude, or measuring any quantifiable property.

4 2d ago A 28 tokens original Apache-2.0