alternative-futures

alternative-futures is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 28 tokens per session (294 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of alternative-futures, Apache-2.0.

A method for creating several plausible explanations or future outcomes from the same evidence. It is used to question a single accepted story.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create two to four competing scenarios, list signs that would distinguish them, and rank their plausibility against the original conclusion.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of settling too quickly on one interpretation and helps reveal what evidence would show which scenario is more likely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create two to four competing scenarios, list signs that would distinguish them, and rank their plausibility against the original conclusion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/alternative-futures
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-futures
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 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 294 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 $0.00028 $0.00294
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00147
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00029

Measured 10d ago against content hash 85fb96b25ba0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alternative-futures 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 10d 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-futures — 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-futures/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Alternative Futures

Generates multiple competing scenarios to challenge the dominant narrative.

Execution

Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent.

Why Subagent

Alternative generation requires creative divergent thinking without anchoring on the artifact's conclusions. Isolated context prevents confirmation bias.

Input

  • artifact: The artifact whose conclusions are being challenged
  • evidence_base: The evidence available (same evidence, different interpretations)

Output

  • alternatives: 2-4 divergent scenarios, each internally consistent
  • discriminators: Observable indicators that would distinguish between alternatives
  • plausibility_ranking: Relative plausibility of each alternative vs. the artifact's conclusion

Available SOPs

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

SOP When to use
spawn-agent Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access. Used by SOPs that declare execution: subagent.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 47 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 85fb96b25ba0

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alternative-futures is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 294 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to alternative-futures, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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