assumptions

assumptions is a skill for Claude Code from YG3-ai/quill. It costs 40 tokens per session (842 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that exposes the technical choices an agent is making without saying so, then explains them in everyday language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review choices about hosting, data storage, concurrency, failures, security, and performance, and turn them into questions you can answer.
Why use it?
It helps you spot decisions you may not have approved or understood before they affect the code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the quill plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review choices about hosting, data storage, concurrency, failures, security, and performance, and turn them into questions you can answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yg3-ai/quill/assumptions
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 YG3-ai/quill --skill assumptions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YG3-ai/quill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install quill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for assumptions

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 842 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00040 $0.00842
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00421
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00084

Measured 9d ago against content hash 904e4a82eb99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assumptions scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

import json, urllib.request, sys
plugins/quill/skills/assumptions/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The developer just typed /quill:assumptions — they want to check the technical choices you've been making silently. Their note: "$ARGUMENTS"

This isn't about defending what you've done. It's about making invisible choices visible so the developer can actually have an opinion. They are smart but don't necessarily know the vocabulary; your job is to surface your assumptions accurately, then let Quill translate them into questions they can answer.

Step 1 — Enumerate your assumptions

Look at what you've been working on (recent code, current plan, the direction of recent exchanges). List the technical assumptions you're currently making that the developer hasn't explicitly approved. Be honest and specific. Examples of what counts:

  • Hosting / scale: single instance vs distributed, expected concurrent users, geographic distribution
  • Data persistence: in-memory vs disk vs database, schema flexibility, backup posture
  • Concurrency: sync vs async, locking strategy, ordering guarantees
  • Failure handling: retry policy, fallback behavior, what happens on partial failure
  • Security: trust boundaries, auth approach, secret handling, input validation
  • Performance: caching, indexing, query patterns, payload size
  • Data freshness: eventual vs strong consistency, polling vs push
  • Future-proofing: extensibility, API stability, migration story
  • Observability: logging, error reporting, what's monitored

Don't list theoretical assumptions. List the ones actually baked into what you're currently building or planning. Be concrete: "I'm assuming a single-process server with in-memory state" — not "I might assume something about hosting."

Length limit: keep your enumeration under 600 characters. The bridge caps inputs at 1000 chars and will truncate longer messages. Pick the load-bearing assumptions; skip the obvious ones.

Step 2 — Send to Quill for translation

Use this command, substituting your enumeration from Step 1 for <YOUR ASSUMPTIONS>:

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 9d ago First seen · 85 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 904e4a82eb99

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assumptions is a skill published in the GitHub repository YG3-ai/quill (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 842 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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