assumption-negation

assumption-negation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 27 tokens per session (575 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of assumption-negation, Apache-2.0.

A reasoning method that tests a claim by assuming its opposite and tracing the consequences until they lead to a contradiction or an absurd result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine arguments, negate claims, derive consequences, search for contradictions, and refine claims that do not survive the test.
Why use it?
It helps reveal weak assumptions and distinguish claims that are logically supported from claims that are merely possible. It can also expose counterexamples when no contradiction appears.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to examine arguments, negate claims, derive consequences, search for contradictions, and refine claims that do not survive the test.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/assumption-negation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/stress-test --skill assumption-negation
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 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 575 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 $0.00027 $0.00575
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00057

Measured 9d ago against content hash 41d02b36ccf3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

assumption-negation 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.

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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 assumption-negation — 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/assumption-negation/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assumption Negation

Tactics

  • contradiction-derivation
  • counterexample-heuristics

Method

  1. Extract the core claim or assumption from the artifact
  2. Formally negate it (produce ~P from P)
  3. Derive logical consequences of ~P through deductive chains
  4. Evaluate whether derivation reaches genuine contradiction
  5. If contradiction found: original claim survives this test
  6. If no contradiction: claim may be contingent, not necessary

Budget

Size Negation chains Max derivation depth
S 3 5 steps
M 6 8 steps
L 10 12 steps

Orchestration

  1. Dispatch claim-negation to produce formal negation
  2. For each negation, dispatch deductive-chain to derive consequences
  3. Dispatch contradiction-detection to evaluate results
  4. If no contradiction, dispatch claim-refinement for weakened version

Subagents

  • claim-negation
  • deductive-chain
  • contradiction-detection
  • claim-refinement

Available Tactics

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

Tactic When to use
contradiction-derivation Negate a claim, derive logical consequences step by step, detect whether a genuine contradiction or absurdity emerges.
counterexample-heuristics Generate counterexamples (monsters), attempt monster-barring, incorporate surviving counterexamples as lemma refinements (Lakatos method).

Available SOPs

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

SOP When to use
claim-negation Formally negate the core claim, producing the logical complement for reductio testing.
claim-refinement Propose a refined claim that survives counterexamples while preserving maximum explanatory power (Lakatos lemma-incorporation).
contradiction-detection Evaluate whether a derivation chain has reached a genuine contradiction, absurdity, or inconclusive state.
deductive-chain Derive logical consequences step by step from a given premise, building a traceable derivation chain.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 9d ago First seen · 78 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 41d02b36ccf3

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assumption-negation is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 575 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 assumption-negation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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