causal-necessity-testing

causal-necessity-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 39 tokens per session (620 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of causal-necessity-testing, Apache-2.0.

A testing method for judging whether a claimed cause is necessary, sufficient, both, or neither for an observed result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract causal claims, score the likelihood of necessity and sufficiency, and identify which causes are essential to the explanation.
Why use it?
It separates strong cause-and-effect claims from claims where the result could happen without the cause or where the cause alone is not enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to extract causal claims, score the likelihood of necessity and sufficiency, and identify which causes are essential to the explanation.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/causal-necessity-testing
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 causal-necessity-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/stress-test

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 causal-necessity-testing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/causal-necessity-testing.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/causal-necessity-testing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/causal-necessity-testing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/causal-necessity-testing.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 620 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 $0.00039 $0.00620
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00310
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00062

Measured 7d ago against content hash 29a317fced6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

causal-necessity-testing 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 7d 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 causal-necessity-testing — 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/causal-necessity-testing/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Causal Necessity Testing Tactic

PNS evaluation: for each causal claim, determine whether the cause is necessary, sufficient, both, or neither.

Orchestration

  1. causal-claim-extraction extracts all X→Y causal claims from the artifact
  2. necessity-evaluation asks: if X had NOT occurred, would Y still hold? (PN)
  3. sufficiency-evaluation asks: if X occurred in isolation, would Y follow? (PS)
  4. Classify each claim into quadrant:
    • PN high + PS high → INUS condition (load-bearing)
    • PN high + PS low → necessary but not sufficient
    • PN low + PS high → sufficient but redundant
    • PN low + PS low → spurious or decorative
  5. load-bearing-identification synthesizes quadrant assignments

Scoring

  • PN and PS scored 0.0–1.0 (probability estimates)
  • Threshold for "high": >= 0.7
  • Threshold for "low": < 0.3
  • Middle range (0.3–0.7): uncertain, flag for deeper investigation

Subagents Dispatched

  • causal-claim-extraction (claim identification)
  • necessity-evaluation (PN scoring per claim)
  • sufficiency-evaluation (PS scoring per claim)
  • load-bearing-identification (quadrant synthesis)

Termination Conditions

  • All extracted claims evaluated within budget
  • Early termination if INUS condition found and budget is S
  • All claims score PN < 0.3 (no necessary factors found — conclusion may be overdetermined)

Available SOPs

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

SOP When to use
causal-claim-extraction Extract all causal claims (X causes Y, X leads to Y, X enables Y) from an artifact, producing a structured list of cause-effect pairs.
load-bearing-identification Identify which factors are "load-bearing walls" — factors whose removal would collapse the conclusion.
necessity-evaluation Evaluate the probability of necessity (PN) for a causal factor — would the conclusion fail if this factor were absent?
sufficiency-evaluation Evaluate the probability of sufficiency (PS) for a causal factor — would this factor alone be enough to produce the conclusion?

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 7d ago First seen · 68 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 29a317fced6d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

causal-necessity-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 620 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 causal-necessity-testing, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

relax-dev-debug

Develop and debug the Relax reinforcement learning project. Use this skill whenever modifying code in the relax/ directory, or running remote training jobs on a Ray cluster for validation. Also use it when the user mentions training, debugging training runs, submitting Ray jobs, or fixing training errors.

redai-infra/Relax · 60 tokens

research-ideation

Quant-focused research ideation pipeline: scope selection (3 stages) → anchor-first literature grounding → single-core idea generation → iterative refinement → ELO tournament ranking (Final = N+R+C−D) → update evo-memory → user selects direction → expand into manuscript-quality proposal. Optimized for incremental…

CamusGIT/EvoQuant · 151 tokens

quant-experiment-runtime

Quant research experiment executor: discover an offline source database under the workdir's code-repo, build a panel, run a Research Artifact's entry point to compute research-object values, and evaluate IC/ICIR/RANKIC/coverage metrics. Runtime = Experiment Executor; it runs a Research Artifact via a Python-native…

CamusGIT/EvoQuant · 179 tokens

local-paper-navigator

Find and read papers from the local papers library (repo papers/, mounted at /papers/). Three native tools form a reading funnel: papersearch (one line per paper), paperread (card + section outline), papersection (one verbatim section — the only full-text access). Use when: find papers in the local library, read a…

CamusGIT/EvoQuant · 119 tokens

experiment-pipeline

Guides structured 4-stage experiment execution with attempt budgets and gate conditions: Stage 1 initial implementation (reproduce baseline), Stage 2 hyperparameter tuning, Stage 3 proposed method validation, Stage 4 ablation study. Integrates with evo-memory (load prior strategies, trigger IVE/ESE) and…

CamusGIT/EvoQuant · 129 tokens

paper-review

Guides self-review of YOUR OWN academic paper before submission with adversarial stress-testing. Core method: 5-aspect checklist (contribution sufficiency, writing clarity, results quality, testing completeness, method design), counterintuitive protocol (reject-first simulation, delete unsupported claims, score trust…

CamusGIT/EvoQuant · 152 tokens