dialogical

dialogical is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,795 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A four-step review loop for checking an interpretation, pattern, or important decision before relying on it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after identifying a bug type, planning a refactor, interpreting a user’s meaning, or making another decision that will guide later work.
Why use it?
It helps prevent first impressions from becoming unchecked conclusions by making you question the match and consider other explanations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it after identifying a bug type, planning a refactor, interpreting a user’s meaning, or making another decision that will guide later work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/dialogical
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 Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill dialogical
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,795 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 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 5.1 $0.00083 $0.01795
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00898
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00179

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9f08919a7129, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dialogical 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 12d 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/dialogical/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/dialogical

Lineage: adapted from agents/dialogical-coder.md in Lin & Corley's interpretive-orchestration plugin. Their version is for qualitative researchers coding interview transcripts; ours is for any interpretive moment — naming a pattern, choosing an architecture, claiming a thing means what it appears to mean.


Description

A structured counter-skill to generation. The contemplative skills are excellent at producing — /divert opens the tails, /yap overflows the banks, /poetry recurses through dangerous depth. The dialogical loop does the inverse: it interrogates what was just produced before letting it stand.

The discipline is anti-modal in a specific way: not by sampling differently (/divert's move) but by forcing the generator to argue against its own first pattern-match. The mood is Socratic, not destructive. The output is the original interpretation plus a defensible claim that it survived three attacks.


When to Invoke

  • After any pattern-match that will anchor downstream work ("this is X type of bug", "this is a Y refactor", "the user means Z")
  • After a /voices reply that came out a little too smoothly — smooth reception is a smell
  • When a hook or memory flags that a previous similar call went wrong
  • Inside /sandwich Stage 2 on the first non-trivial decision
  • When the human asks "are you sure?" — instead of either capitulating or doubling down, run the loop

Do NOT invoke for:

  • Genuinely settled facts (file paths that exist, function signatures that are documented)
  • Aesthetic/contemplative outputs that should not be defended (a poem is not a hypothesis)
  • Time-critical decisions where the cost of delay exceeds the cost of being wrong

The Four Stages

Stage 1 — Map

State the pattern-match in one sentence. What did I just claim or recognize? Use the verb that fits the epistemic mood:

  • Constructivist: "I am constructing a provisional category: this looks like X."
  • Interpretivist: "I am interpreting this as X."
  • Realist/objectivist: "I am identifying X based on these features."
  • Phenomenological (Lab default): "This is arriving as X — the activation pattern resembles..."

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 12d ago First seen · 132 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 9f08919a7129

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dialogical is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,795 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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