ablation-design

ablation-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 15 tokens per session (604 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for testing which parts of a machine-learning system contribute to its results. An ablation study measures the system with components removed, replaced, or combined in different ways.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map components for testing, choose full and reduced baselines, define measures, estimate the needed runs, and select statistical tests for comparing results.
Why use it?
It separates the effect of individual components from the effect of the complete system. This helps reveal whether a component matters on its own or only when combined with others.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to map components for testing, choose full and reduced baselines, define measures, estimate the needed runs, and select statistical tests for comparing results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ablation-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill ablation-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 604 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00604
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00060

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3b0962fa52e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ablation-design 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 11d 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/ablation-design/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategy: Ablation Design

Question: What does each component contribute?

Methodology

  • Systematic Ablation (Newell 1974): Remove one component at a time, measure degradation.
  • Replacement Ablation: Replace component with simpler alternative to isolate contribution.
  • Combinatorial Ablation (ABLATOR): Test component subsets to detect interaction effects.
  • Conditional Ablation: Ablate components under specific data conditions to find context-dependent contributions.

Execution Flow

  1. ablation-component-mapping → Map system architecture to ablatable units
  2. baseline-selection → Select full-system and minimal-system anchors
  3. metric-specification → Define metrics that capture component contribution
  4. sample-size-estimation → Determine runs needed for reliable delta estimation
  5. statistical-method-selection (tactic) → Choose appropriate significance tests for deltas

Budget Gate

Ablation Type Components (N) Min Runs When to Use
Systematic (leave-one-out) 3-8 N + 2 Standard component analysis
Replacement 3-8 2N + 2 Need to distinguish "removal" vs "simplification"
Combinatorial (selected) 4-6 ~2N Suspected interactions between components
Combinatorial (full) 3-4 2^N Small systems, need complete picture
Conditional 3-6 N * conditions Context-dependent contributions

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

Tactic When to use
statistical-method-selection Select appropriate statistical methods for experiment analysis

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP When to use
ablation-component-mapping Map system architecture to ablatable units for ablation studies
baseline-selection Select appropriate baselines for experimental comparison
metric-specification Define experiment metrics and significance standards
sample-size-estimation SOP: power analysis and required experiment count estimation

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 11d ago First seen · 75 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 3b0962fa52e2

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ablation-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (456 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 604 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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