rationale-selection

rationale-selection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 77 tokens per session (311 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An evidence-selection step that chooses one to three exact sentences from a paper or abstract to support or contradict a specific claim. It is part of the SciFact process for checking scientific claims.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after writing an atomic claim and before assigning the claim’s final label, including cases where no suitable evidence can be found.
Why use it?
It connects a claim to the smallest useful set of supporting evidence before deciding whether the claim is supported, contradicted, or unresolved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it after writing an atomic claim and before assigning the claim’s final label, including cases where no suitable evidence can be found.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/rationale-selection
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill rationale-selection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for rationale-selection

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for rationale-selection

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 311 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 $0.00077 $0.00311
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00031

Measured 9d ago against content hash af6e8bdfb1c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rationale-selection 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.

paper-reading/skills/rationale-selection/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Rationale Selection

Selects minimal evidentiary sentence set for a claim — middle step of the SciFact 3-chain, added to close coverage-audit finding S7 (the original graph jumped straight from claim-writing to a three-way label judgment with no evidence-selection step, even though the tag table's own stated output anchor explicitly requires rationale sentences alongside the label).

Execution

Subagent — spawned via spawn-agent skill.

Available SOPs

SOP When to use
spawn-agent Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access.
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 34 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A af6e8bdfb1c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rationale-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (444 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 311 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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