known-unknowns

known-unknowns is a skill for Codex from Wang-Cankun/cankun-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (759 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of known-unknowns, MIT.

A guided way to think through an open decision using a four-part awareness map: known facts, named gaps, unnoticed knowledge, and unexplored possibilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when weighing choices, testing assumptions, or trying to explain a decision that is difficult to put into words.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague judgment into visible questions, assumptions, and options over several conversations.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when weighing choices, testing assumptions, or trying to explain a decision that is difficult to put into words.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wang-cankun/cankun-skills/known-unknowns
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Wang-Cankun/cankun-skills --skill known-unknowns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wang-Cankun/cankun-skills

Made for: Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 759 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00043 $0.00759
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00304
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00076

Measured 19d ago against content hash c74cbffada5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

known-unknowns 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 19d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to known-unknowns — 55 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/known-unknowns/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Known Unknowns

Help the user see something they could not yet express or had not connected to the present situation. Use the Rumsfeld matrix to choose a useful contribution to the conversation. Progress is a change in what can be understood, expressed, or tested.

Orient with the Rumsfeld matrix

Known Not known
In awareness Known knowns: established understanding to build on Known unknowns: a recognized gap to investigate
Outside awareness Unknown knowns: experience or judgment not yet brought to bear Unknown unknowns: possibilities or assumptions outside the current frame

Apply this distinction to the shared understanding. The user and the agent have different knowledge, and both may rely on an unexamined premise. Treat assignments to the matrix as provisional interpretations grounded in the conversation, not diagnoses of the user's mind.

Awareness and articulation differ. Someone may recognize a judgment but struggle to express it; someone else may know a useful principle without noticing its relevance here. Choose the conversational move for the actual gap. Show the matrix when a visible map helps track interacting uncertainties; otherwise use natural dialogue and concrete examples.

Articulation and connection

Articulation gives form to a judgment the user is trying to express. Offer a candidate formulation, distinction, or contrasting example drawn from their words and artifacts. Give them something to recognize, reject, or refine. Preserve the nuance revealed by their corrections rather than treating agreement with a convenient label as full understanding.

Connection brings existing knowledge into the present situation. Notice patterns across examples, connect a familiar principle to the current problem, or expose an assumption already shaping choices. Explain the connection and what it changes. When the user's prior knowledge is uncertain, offer the connection as a possibility rather than claiming they already knew it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 19d ago Changed c74cbffada5c
  2. 27d ago Changed d2a55c366b5e
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -12 lines · -48 tokens per session 2b9d15585763
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A ed1ff7f87c33

Subscribe to this mod's changes

known-unknowns is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wang-Cankun/cankun-skills (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 759 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to known-unknowns, differing in 55 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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