abstraction-to-design

abstraction-to-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 18 tokens per session (203 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for turning a biological principle into an engineering design principle by keeping its useful function and removing biology-specific details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse a biological mechanism, abstract its functional lesson, and map that lesson to an engineering problem.
Why use it?
It helps avoid copying a biological example too literally while still preserving the idea that may be useful in a technical design.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to analyse a biological mechanism, abstract its functional lesson, and map that lesson to an engineering problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/abstraction-to-design
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 yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill abstraction-to-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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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 203 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00018 $0.00203
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00102
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00020

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5044f1385516, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

abstraction-to-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 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/abstraction-to-design/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Abstraction to Design

Abstract biological principle to design principle.

Execution

Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent skill.

Why Subagent

Abstraction requires careful removal of biological specifics while preserving the functional essence, then mapping to engineering design space. Benefits from focused analytical attention to avoid over-literal or over-abstract transfers.

Available SOPs

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

SOP When to use
spawn-agent Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access. Used by SOPs that declare execution: subagent.
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. 12d ago First seen · 36 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 5044f1385516

Subscribe to this mod's changes

abstraction-to-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (456 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 203 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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