alternative-analysis

alternative-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 30 tokens per session (705 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of alternative-analysis, Apache-2.0.

A strategy for examining a situation through competing explanations, changing important assumptions, and looking at opportunity, risk, structure, and human choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore what-if changes, generate alternative futures, test competing explanations, and compare which account best fits the available evidence.
Why use it?
It helps challenge a dominant narrative instead of treating one explanation as certain, and identifies evidence that could separate the alternatives.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to explore what-if changes, generate alternative futures, test competing explanations, and compare which account best fits the available evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/alternative-analysis
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/stress-test --skill alternative-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/stress-test

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 705 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00030 $0.00705
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00282
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e87243e4bfa9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alternative-analysis 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to alternative-analysis — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/alternative-analysis/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.

Alternative Analysis Strategy

CIA SAT alternative analysis: generate multiple competing interpretations to prevent anchoring on a single explanation.

Method

  1. alternative-futures builds 2-4 divergent scenarios from the same evidence base
  2. What-If Analysis: systematically vary key variables to explore outcome sensitivity
  3. Four Ways of Seeing: examine artifact through lenses of opportunity, risk, structure, and agency
  4. probe-execution tests each alternative against available evidence
  5. Diagnostic indicators identified that would discriminate between alternatives
  6. finding-aggregation compares explanatory power across alternatives

Budget Table

Parameter S M L
Attack vectors 5 12 20
Probing rounds 3 6 10
Personas 2 4 6
Assumption checks 5 10 20

Orchestration

threat-surface-mapping → [identify variable dimensions]
→ alternative-futures (generate 2-4 scenarios)
→ [for each alternative]:
    attack-vector-generation (find discriminating tests)
    → probe-execution (test alternative)
→ finding-aggregation → attack-resilience-scoring

Subagents

  • threat-surface-mapping (dimension identification)
  • alternative-futures (scenario generation)
  • attack-vector-generation (discriminating test design)
  • probe-execution (alternative testing)
  • finding-aggregation (comparative synthesis)

Available Tactics

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

Tactic When to use
adversarial-roleplay Tactic: Construct detailed hostile persona, attack artifact from that persona's perspective, record successful attack paths for aggregation.
structured-attack-campaign Tactic: Full attack lifecycle — threat surface enumeration, attack vector generation, systematic probing, and finding aggregation across all surfaces.

Available SOPs

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

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. 1mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A e87243e4bfa9

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alternative-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 705 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to alternative-analysis, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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