nci-manipulation-analysis

nci-manipulation-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from synaptiai/synapti-marketplace. It costs 75 tokens per session (3,273 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for examining text or web pages for patterns used to influence people, such as emotional pressure, propaganda, disinformation, or group division.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing articles, posts, and URLs for manipulation patterns and deciding when claims need fact-checking.
Why use it?
It helps separate the way a message tries to persuade from whether its factual claims are true.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the decipon plugin — 2 skills, 7 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing articles, posts, and URLs for manipulation patterns and deciding when claims need fact-checking.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/nci-analysis
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.

Any agent
npx skills add synaptiai/synapti-marketplace --skill nci-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install decipon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 7 commands, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,273 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 $0.00075 $0.03273
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01636
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00655
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00327

Measured 7d ago against content hash 360f5e9cdb76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nci-manipulation-analysis 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 7d 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.

plugins/decipon/skills/nci-analysis/SKILL.md · 414 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 414 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NCI Manipulation Analysis

This skill uses pattern-based manipulation detection that identifies how content tries to influence the reader, not whether claims are factually true. Manipulation techniques leave fingerprints regardless of underlying accuracy.

Use TodoWrite to track these mandatory steps:

Quick Start

For Text Content

  1. Read the content provided by user
  2. Apply 20-category analysis (see references/categories.md)
  3. Calculate composite factors and overall score (see references/scoring.md)
  4. Check deep research triggers - if score > 40 or key categories elevated, verify claims
  5. Generate dual perspectives
  6. Output report in requested format

For URLs

  1. Use WebFetch to retrieve content from URL
  2. Extract main article/post text
  3. Proceed with text analysis workflow
  4. Note source metadata (publication, date, author)
  5. If triggers met: Use fact-checker agent to verify key claims

First Principles (Summary)

The NCI Protocol is grounded in these principles (see agents/perspective-generator.md for full version):

  1. Evidence over authority - Evaluate patterns in content, not source reputation
  2. Steel-man interpretation - Present strongest version of each perspective
  3. Atomic decomposition - Break claims into smallest verifiable units
  4. Source agnosticism - Apply identical standards regardless of source alignment
  5. Bidirectional beneficiary analysis - Ask who benefits if believed AND if dismissed
  6. Pattern vs. Intent - Focus on techniques; deep research evidence can inform motives

These principles ensure fair, consistent analysis across all content regardless of political or ideological alignment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 414 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 414 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 360f5e9cdb76

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nci-manipulation-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/synapti-marketplace (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 3,273 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 2026-09-03.