swing-options

swing-options is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TheStack-ai/swing-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,554 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision aid that produces several distinct alternatives, including less obvious ones, and indicates which approaches are more typical. It is designed to challenge the first solution that comes to mind.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at a decision point when comparing implementation approaches, product choices, or other possible solutions. It is for choosing among options, not for exploring an entire design.
Why use it?
It reduces anchoring—the tendency to accept the first plausible idea without checking other options. This can reveal assumptions and approaches that would otherwise be missed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the swing-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thestack-ai/swing-skills/swing-options
Any agent
npx skills add TheStack-ai/swing-skills --skill swing-options
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheStack-ai/swing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install swing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for swing-options

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thestack-ai/swing-skills/swing-options.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thestack-ai/swing-skills/swing-options)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thestack-ai/swing-skills/swing-options"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thestack-ai/swing-skills/swing-options.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,554 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00082 $0.02554
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01277
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00511
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00255

Measured 5d ago against content hash b9282da8ca83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

swing-options 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 5d 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/swing-options/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creativity Sampler

Probability-weighted option generator that fights typicality bias and surfaces unconventional alternatives. The core value is exposing hidden assumptions behind the "obvious" choice.

Addresses the cognitive failure of Anchoring Bias — AI defaults to the first or most obvious solution without exploring the full decision space, causing users to miss superior alternatives they never considered.

Rules (Absolute)

  1. Generate exactly 5 options by default. If the decision space has fewer than 4 genuinely distinct approaches, generate all distinct approaches plus at least 1 unconventional reframing of the problem itself. Never pad with trivially different variations of the same idea. If the user specifies a different count, respect it.
  2. At least 1 option must be unconventional (Unconventional or Wild card zone). This is the whole point — surface ideas that would normally be suppressed.
  3. Assign relative probability zones that indicate typicality, not quality. Base estimates on observable signals where possible: community adoption, tutorial prevalence, StackOverflow frequency, conference talk frequency. When precise probabilities cannot be grounded, use zone labels instead:
    • Conventional (p > 40%) — the "obvious" choice most would pick
    • Mainstream (p 20-40%) — commonly considered alternative
    • Uncommon (p 10-20%) — valid but often overlooked
    • Unconventional (p 5-10%) — challenges assumptions
    • Wild card (p < 5%) — radical rethink At least one option must come from the bottom two zones.
  4. Lower probability = more creative, not worse. Explicitly frame low-p options as valuable exploration.
  5. No default recommendation. Present all options as viable. Let the user decide after seeing trade-offs.
  6. Trade-off analysis is mandatory. Each option must have concrete pros/cons, not vague descriptions.
  7. Ambiguous inputs require clarification. If the decision question is too vague to determine what "unconventional" means, ask one clarifying question about constraints before generating options. Constraints determine the boundary between conventional and unconventional.

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 225 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A b9282da8ca83

Subscribe to this mod's changes

swing-options is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheStack-ai/swing-skills (40 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,554 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 2026-08-30.

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