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 challenge-operationgit 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/challenge-operation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/challenge-operation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/challenge-operation/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/challenge-operation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/challenge-operation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00017 | $0.00610 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00305 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00122 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00061 |
Grade A, and why
challenge-operation 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Challenge Operation
Apply de Bono's Challenge technique: non-threatening questioning of why things are done the way they are. Not criticism — genuine curiosity about whether current approaches are the only way.
State Ledger
| Resource | Target | Current | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| web-search | 20 | 0 | 0% |
| web-research | 8 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-overview | 20 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-search | 12 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-research | 5 | 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 |
|---|---|
| concept-hierarchy | Organize challenged practices into concept levels |
Available SOPs
| SOP | Role |
|---|---|
| challenge-questioning | Apply non-threatening 'Why?' to current practices |
| escape-technique | Escape from dominant patterns revealed by challenge |
| alternatives-generation | Generate alternatives to challenged practices |
| lateral-synthesis | Synthesize challenge operation outputs |
Execution Guidance
- List practices: Identify current practices, methods, and assumptions
- Challenge each: Apply challenge-questioning SOP — "Why is it done this way?"
- Distinguish: Separate necessary constraints from historical accidents
- Escape: For historical accidents, use escape-technique to find alternatives
- Generate alternatives: Produce concrete alternatives to challenged practices
- Synthesize: Produce structured output via lateral-synthesis
Available Tactics
Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.
| Tactic | When to use |
|---|---|
| concept-hierarchy | Build concept levels from purpose through concepts to ideas, with escape and fractionation at each level. |
Available SOPs
Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.
| SOP | When to use |
|---|---|
| alternatives-generation | Generate alternatives for every known approach — ensure no approach goes unchallenged. |
| challenge-questioning | Non-threatening 'Why?' questioning of current practices to reveal historical accidents vs. genuine constraints. |
| escape-technique | Identify dominant thinking pattern and escape it via deliberate pattern-breaking. |
| lateral-synthesis | Synthesize all lateral thinking intermediate outputs into a structured idea report. |
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 79 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 4891fdd451ab
challenge-operation is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (449 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 610 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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