argument-synthesis

argument-synthesis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 26 tokens per session (589 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for combining positions and evidence from an argument graph, a structured map of claims and their supporting or opposing information. It resolves contradictions where possible and reports which claims remain supported or weakened.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down claims, assess their strength, reconcile contradictions, and produce synthesis reports.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered or conflicting arguments into a coherent position while keeping track of uncertainty and evidence strength.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to break down claims, assess their strength, reconcile contradictions, and produce synthesis reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/argument-synthesis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill argument-synthesis
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 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 589 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 $0.00026 $0.00589
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00295
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00059

Measured 8d ago against content hash b51fd67cb6c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

argument-synthesis 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 8d 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/argument-synthesis/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Argument Synthesis

Synthesize coherent positions from the argument graph. Aggregates evidence across claims, resolves contradictions where possible, and produces synthesis reports that identify which claims survive scrutiny and which are undermined.

Budget Slice

Metric Small Medium Large
Claims synthesized 10 25 50
Contradictions resolved 2 6 12
Synthesis reports 1 3 5

State Ledger

Metric Target Current %
Claims synthesized
Contradictions resolved
Synthesis reports

Budget Gate

Cannot exit until 80% of budget targets met.

Adversarial Completeness Probe

After budget gate passes, self-check:

  • Does the synthesis address all major contradictions?
  • Are surviving claims genuinely supported or just uncontested?
  • Does the report acknowledge remaining uncertainty?

Max 2 extra iterations if gaps found.

Tactics Available

  • claim-decomposition — decompose complex positions for analysis
  • strength-assessment — final strength evaluation for synthesis

SOPs Available

  • argument-visualization — generate argument structure visualization
  • synthesis-report — produce the final synthesis document

Available Tactics

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

Tactic When to use
knowledge-structuring-claim-decomposition Tactic for decomposing compound claims into atomic propositions — identify logical structure, separate conjunctions, extract implicit assumptions.
strength-assessment Tactic for assessing argument strength — evaluate evidence quality, count independent sources, check for defeaters, assign calibrated confidence scores.

Available SOPs

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

SOP When to use
argument-visualization SOP for generating argument structure visualization — query graph for argument chains, format as mermaid diagram or indented tree, write to vault.
synthesis-report SOP for producing argument synthesis reports — aggregate evidence, resolve contradictions, identify surviving claims, write structured summary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 8d ago First seen · 83 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A b51fd67cb6c8

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argument-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (462 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 589 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 2026-09-03.

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