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.
npx skills add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit --skill alpha-judgegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kitWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/alpha-judge)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/alpha-judge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/alpha-judge/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/alpha-judge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/alpha-judge.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00108 | $0.02321 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00054 | $0.01161 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00464 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00232 |
Grade A, and why
alpha-judge 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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
🅰️⚖️ /alpha-judge — the reusable LLM-judge for every alpha miner
🧒 When reporting to a non-technical operator: end with a child-simple "In plain words" recap in their language (their standing request; reports TO the operator only).
The alpha-extraction engine = cheap deterministic detector (0 tokens) → LLM judge → weekly ≤10 + yes/no calibration, repeated for each of the 10 miners. The DETECTORS are per-miner scripts in $IMPORTS_ROOT/alpha/. The JUDGE is the SAME logic every time — so it lives HERE, once, and is reused. Canon: 02-Decisions\decision-alpha-extraction-engine-variant-a; memory [[alpha-extraction-engine]].
Model policy (per [[model-routing-sonnet-grunt]] + the operator's 2026-06-14 session override)
- In-session, now: judge on Opus (the operator steers; he'll say when to switch to Sonnet as Opus nears its limit).
- Nightly unattended: Sonnet (idle free bucket) via
judge_nightly.cmd(headlessclaude -p --model sonnet). LIVE + verified 2026-06-15 — Windows task "Alpha Judge Nightly" Mon 05:00, chained after the 04:15 scan. Now judges ALL 10 miners (was bets-only; expanded 2026-06-15) — one headless session reads THIS spec, loops the registry, applies the dedup-vs-home gate, writes each<miner>-judged-latest.md. Vault writes are forbidden in nightly mode (judge-only; home-note additions wait for the operator's in-session approval). (Auth is in the Windows keychain; check withclaude auth status, re-login viaclaude auth login. Keep.cmdpure-ASCII.) - The judge is grunt-classification → Sonnet is the natural default once the session-override lifts.
Miner registry (detector → home → verdict scheme)
| miner key | candidates file (in _imports\alpha\candidates\) |
ledger db | curated HOME note (feeds, never duplicates) | verdict scheme |
|---|---|---|---|---|
bets |
bets-report-latest.md |
bets_ledger.db (table bets) |
insight-prediction-ledger |
✅ came true · ❌ did not · 🔁 still open · 🗑 not a bet |
contradictions |
contra-report-latest.md |
contra_ledger.db (pairs+claims) |
insight-contradictions |
✅ a real contradiction · 🟡 an evolving opinion · 🗑 noise |
stance |
stance-report-latest.md |
stance_ledger.db (shifts+pairs) |
insight-contradictions (§ "willing to change my mind") |
✅ a real shift of view (was A → now B) · 🟡 a refinement, not a shift · 🗑 noise |
bridge |
bridge-report-latest.md |
bridge_ledger.db |
insight-worldview-throughlines |
✅ a non-obvious, valuable bridge between domains · 🟡 an expected link · 🗑 an accidental co-mention |
recurring |
recurring-report-latest.md |
recurring_ledger.db |
insight-worldview-throughlines |
✅ a genuine recurring conviction · 🟡 an operational repeat · 🗑 co-frequency of filler words |
leadsignal |
leadsignal-report-latest.md |
leadsignal_ledger.db |
42.9% precision on the owner's gold set (111🟡/27🔴, 2026-07-05) — leads belong in /pipeline, not in the insight feed. The script stays on disk but is disabled in weekly/judge/harvest |
— |
novelty |
novelty-report-latest.md |
novelty_ledger.db |
insight-novelty-ideas (CREATE it on the first ✅) |
✅ a genuinely new idea · 🟡 a variation on something known · 🗑 rare words with no idea behind them |
identity |
identity-report-latest.md |
identity_ledger.db |
_Self-Bible-MOC (+ concept-* "what I think") |
✅ a real self-definition (a value/principle) · 🟡 situational · 🗑 not about identity |
openq |
openq-report-latest.md |
openq_ledger.db |
insight-open-questions ✅ (created 2026-06-15, 25 questions; +226 from Detector-A pending) |
✅ a real open question of the owner's · 🟡 rhetorical · 🗑 someone else's / boilerplate |
orphan |
orphan-insight-report-latest.md |
orphan_insight_ledger.db |
37.5% precision on the owner's gold set — the misses were the team's working protocols in 05-Resources (an evidence layer where being unlinked is normal). Orphan insights are caught by /relink --deep. The script stays on disk but is disabled in weekly/judge/harvest |
— |
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 67 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 7b1806fd8c42
alpha-judge is a skill published in the GitHub repository tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 2,321 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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