create-assumption

A written record of an unverified belief made during software design or implementation. It captures the evidence behind the belief, confidence, risks, consequences, and a plan to check it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document an implementation assumption in the project's .sdlc knowledge folder, including why it was made and when or how it will be validated.
Why use it?
It makes uncertain decisions visible so the team can understand what might be wrong and avoid treating guesses as confirmed facts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/tomzx/agents/create-assumption
Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill create-assumption
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 781 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 $0.00020 $0.00781
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00391
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00078

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5ab54461c83b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-assumption 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 2d 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/create-assumption/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Assumption

Records an assumption made during implementation: what is being assumed, why, how confident the team is, what breaks if the assumption is wrong, and how to validate it.

Assumptions differ from decisions: a decision is a deliberate choice between known options; an assumption is something believed to be true that has not been fully verified.

Prerequisites

  • Apply the shared SDLC conventions in skills/sdlc/references/shared.md.
  • An assumption that was made (implicitly or explicitly) during design or implementation
  • Enough context to assess its basis and risk

Steps

  1. State the assumption clearly and specifically.
  2. Describe the basis: what evidence or reasoning supports it.
  3. Assess confidence level and risk if the assumption is wrong.
  4. Describe the impact on the implementation if the assumption turns out to be false.
  5. Define a validation plan: how and when to confirm or refute the assumption.
  6. Save the document to .sdlc/knowledge/assumptions/ using the filename pattern N-<slug>.md where N is the next available number (counting existing files in that directory).

Output Format

Use the template at skills/sdlc/templates/knowledge/assumption.md (copied to .sdlc/templates/knowledge/assumption.md by /initialize-sdlc-directory; use the project's customized copy if present). Write the result to the artifact path named in the steps above.

Outcome

If $OUTCOME_YAML is set, emit verdict: approved there per skills/sdlc/references/shared.md once the record is written. In the same emission, list the artifact under artifacts: (.sdlc/knowledge/assumptions/N-<slug>.md).

Example Usage

Scenario 1: Load assumption Assuming the service will handle at most 1,000 concurrent users based on the current contract. Basis: product manager's statement in the kick-off meeting. Confidence: Medium (verbal, not written). Risk if wrong: connection pool and caching strategy are sized for this load; exceeding it causes timeouts. Validation: confirm in writing with PM before go-live.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 2d ago First seen · 76 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 5ab54461c83b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-assumption is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 781 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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