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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 | $0.00079 | $0.01392 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00032 | $0.00557 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00278 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00139 |
Grade A, and why
failure-essence 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 2mo 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- failure-essence — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Strategic Failure Patterns (Essence of Failure)
When to Apply
- Creating or reviewing Strategy Kernels
- When Goals have multiple competing objectives
- When strategy language is vague or ambiguous
- When a project should potentially be stopped
- When assumptions underlying strategy need validation
Core Framework
1. Dual-Objective Trap Detection
When a Goal or Driver has two stated objectives, run a conflict stress test:
Goal: "Acquire 100 enterprise customers AND maintain 90% gross margin"
Conflict Stress Test:
"Under what resource/timing constraints do these conflict?"
-> Enterprise sales requires high-touch (high CAC)
-> 90% margin limits sales investment
-> Below $50K deal size, these are mutually exclusive
"DUAL-OBJECTIVE CONFLICT detected. Under resource constraints,
you cannot maximize both. Which is PRIMARY?"
-> User designates primary; other becomes subordinate with floor.
Applied to: Goal creation, Driver creation, Strategy Kernel formulation. Any time two objectives appear in the same scope.
Resolution: One objective is PRIMARY (maximized). The other becomes SUBORDINATE with a minimum acceptable floor (not zero, just not maximized).
2. Strategic Ambiguity Detection
When Strategy Kernel or User Rules contain terms that could be interpreted divergently, test for operationalizability:
Guiding Policy: "Focus on high-value customers"
Ambiguity Test:
"Could two people read 'high-value' and derive opposite actions?"
Interpretation A: "Enterprise, $100K+ deals"
Interpretation B: "High-NPS users who generate referrals"
-> DIVERGENT INTERPRETATION detected.
"Define 'high-value' operationally:
- What metric defines it?
- What threshold?
- What would PROVE this strategy is working?
- What would PROVE it is failing?"
Applied to: Guiding Policy terms, Driver titles, Action descriptions. Any abstract concept that drives resource allocation.
The test: Can two reasonable people read this and derive opposite actions? If yes, the term is dangerously ambiguous.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 146 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 9fc01a9506df
failure-essence is a skill published in the GitHub repository VoxTechnologies/anty-framework (6 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,392 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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