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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/alternative-analysis
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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README.md
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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. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00015 $0.00352
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 5d ago against content hash e87243e4bfa9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 5d 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. 5d 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 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 705 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.