biologize-and-discover

biologize-and-discover is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 40 tokens per session (751 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A biomimicry design process that turns a technical challenge into a question about nature, finds organisms with useful solutions, and adapts their underlying strategies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the problem, research biological examples, extract the important mechanism, and generate technical solutions.
Why use it?
It helps overcome design dead ends by looking for mechanisms that living systems use to solve comparable problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define the problem, research biological examples, extract the important mechanism, and generate technical solutions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/biologize-and-discover
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill biologize-and-discover
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 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 751 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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  • high Prompt Injection · line 62
    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 $0.00040 $0.00751
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00075

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2be7f79e979f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

biologize-and-discover 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/biologize-and-discover/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Biologize and Discover

Apply the Biomimicry Design Spiral: Define→Biologize→Discover→Abstract→Emulate.

State Ledger

Resource Target Current %
web-search 30 0 0%
web-research 10 0 0%
paper-overview 30 0 0%
paper-search 20 0 0%
paper-research 8 0 0%

HARD-GATE

Cannot exit strategy until ≥80% of each budget line is consumed OR yield targets are met with justification for remaining budget.

Available Tactics

Tactic Role
biological-function-mapping Map technical functions to biological systems
analogy-extraction Extract transferable principles from biological domains

Available SOPs

SOP Role
problem-biologization Define → Biologize: restate problem as biological question
organism-discovery Discover: find organisms solving the biological question
biological-strategy-extraction Abstract: extract mechanism-level strategies
emulation-generation Emulate: generate technical solutions from strategies
biomimicry-synthesis Synthesize final output

Execution Guidance

  1. Define: Clarify the technical challenge in functional terms
  2. Biologize: Use problem-biologization to restate as biological question
  3. Discover: Use organism-discovery to find nature's champions
  4. Abstract: Use biological-strategy-extraction to extract principles
  5. Emulate: Use emulation-generation to create technical solutions
  6. Synthesize: Produce structured biomimicry report

Available Tactics

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

Tactic When to use
biological-function-mapping Map technical functions to biological systems. Orchestrates problem-biologization → organism-discovery → functional-model-biology.

Available SOPs

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

SOP When to use
abstraction-to-design Abstract biological principle to design principle. Bridge from biology to engineering.
biological-strategy-extraction Extract strategy principles from organisms. Identify mechanism-level details of how biological systems achieve their function.
biomimicry-synthesis Synthesize all biomimicry outputs into a structured idea report. Integrate biological strategies, design principles, and technical solutions.
emulation-generation Generate technical solutions emulating biological strategies. Bridge from design principle to concrete implementation.
organism-discovery Find organisms solving similar problems. Search across kingdoms for biological champions.
problem-biologization Restate technical problem as biological question. Translate engineering challenges into nature's language.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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 · 86 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 2be7f79e979f

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biologize-and-discover 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 40 tokens to every session and 751 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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