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.
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill ask-constraintsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engineWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ask-constraints)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ask-constraints"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ask-constraints/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ask-constraints"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/ask-constraints.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to low
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- low Excessive Agency · line 4 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
- low Excessive Agency · line 27 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00039 | $0.00161 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00081 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00032 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00016 |
Grade A, and why
ask-constraints 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 7d 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- ask-constraints — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
What it actually says
Ask Constraints
Identify non-negotiable constraints.
Execution
Dialogue — inline, no subagent.
What to Ask About (one at a time)
- Target venue/journal (if any)
- Methodology preferences (empirical? theoretical? both?)
- Areas to explicitly avoid
- Advisor/team hard requirements
- Ethical/legal constraints
Key Behavior
Not limited to ML/AI. Works for any research domain. Some users have no constraints — that's a valid answer.
Output
Constraints section of ActorProfile.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 32 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A f6b0a0b9a48d
ask-constraints 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 39 tokens to every session and 161 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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