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 volkthienpreecha/modesofthinking --skill modes-of-thinkinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volkthienpreecha/modesofthinkingWrote 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/volkthienpreecha/modesofthinking/modes-of-thinking)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/volkthienpreecha/modesofthinking/modes-of-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/volkthienpreecha/modesofthinking/modes-of-thinking/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/volkthienpreecha/modesofthinking/modes-of-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/volkthienpreecha/modesofthinking/modes-of-thinking.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 | $0.00056 | $0.01890 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00945 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00378 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00189 |
Grade A, and why
modes-of-thinking 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 9d 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 — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Modes of Thinking
Improve the reasoning process, not the amount of prose. Classify the problem, select only the lenses that can change the answer, distinguish evidence from interpretation, and finish with a decision, test, or update.
Do not reveal private chain-of-thought. Present conclusions, supporting evidence, material assumptions, uncertainty, and concise decision rationale.
Parse the request
Accept this portable form:
$modes-of-thinking <mode> [agents=N] <problem>
Also accept a platform command adapter such as /council or /decide. If the user names no mode, use think. Preserve the user's original objective and any authorization boundaries; a reasoning mode does not grant permission to edit files, contact people, publish, purchase, or perform other external actions.
Route before analyzing
- State the decision or question in one sentence.
- Identify the problem class:
- truth or diagnosis
- structure or representation
- choice or allocation
- prediction or risk
- strategy or incentives
- invention or design
- failure or abuse
- communication or human behavior
- ethics or legitimacy
- execution or learning
- Select the smallest useful lens stack:
- Primary lens: best fits the problem class.
- Challenge lens: searches for a competing explanation, failure, or value conflict.
- Action lens: converts analysis into an observable next step.
- Add human and time-horizon lenses only when people will adapt, consequences compound, or the choice is hard to reverse.
- Use tools and current sources when facts can be checked. Never replace missing evidence with confident role-play.
Read references/model-atlas.md when lens selection is unclear, the user invokes deepthink, sweep, or reframe, or the task crosses several domains.
Protect the reasoning budget
Save context on transport and repetition, not on reasoning quality. Spend the available budget on framing, competing explanations, decision-relevant evidence, uncertainty, synthesis, and verification.
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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 158 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A f2d1bb239918
modes-of-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository volkthienpreecha/modesofthinking (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,890 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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