assumption-destruction

assumption-destruction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,757 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A brainstorming method that challenges basic assumptions by reversing them, imagining failure, and questioning accepted best practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate alternatives, explore worst-case approaches, challenge industry norms, and question beliefs that have gone unexamined.
Why use it?
It helps teams escape familiar solution patterns and notice ideas hidden by conventional thinking.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to generate alternatives, explore worst-case approaches, challenge industry norms, and question beliefs that have gone unexamined.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/assumption-destruction
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill assumption-destruction
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 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,757 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

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 →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 127
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00027 $0.01757
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00879
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00176

Measured 9d ago against content hash c05fee7a69e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assumption-destruction 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 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.

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/assumption-destruction/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assumption Destruction

Open new solution spaces by negating, reversing, and challenging fundamental assumptions.

Strategy Routing

Strategy Signal Keywords
axiom-negation negate, suspend, PO, de Bono, what if not, challenge axiom
reverse-brainstorming worse, reverse, anti-solution, how to fail, sabotage
worst-method-inversion worst possible, terrible solution, invert bad, flip failure
anti-benchmark best practice, industry standard, benchmark, conventional wisdom
sacred-cow-hunting unquestioned, sacred cow, taboo, never challenged, dogma

Manifest

Strategies

Strategy Description
axiom-negation Identify and suspend fundamental assumptions via de Bono PO
reverse-brainstorming How to make it worse? → reverse for solutions
worst-method-inversion Design worst possible solution → extract insights → invert
anti-benchmark Challenge industry best practices' hidden assumptions
sacred-cow-hunting Find and challenge domain's unquestioned beliefs

Tactics

Tactic Description
provocation-generation Generate PO provocations and extract constructive movement (shared)
assumption-enumeration Surface, perturb, and prioritize assumptions by disruption potential
inversion-protocol Reverse statements → extract insights → build constructive alternatives

SOPs

SOP Description
assumption-perturbation Perturb each assumption, observe system response
reversal-generation Systematically reverse positive statements
worst-case-design Design the worst possible solution
inversion-extraction Extract constructive insights from worst solutions
benchmark-challenge Identify and negate benchmark assumptions
sacred-cow-identification Find domain's unquestioned beliefs
constructive-rebellion Build constructive alternatives from destructive negation
destruction-synthesis Synthesize all assumption destruction outputs

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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 · 167 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A c05fee7a69e0

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assumption-destruction is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (462 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,757 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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