closest-worlds

closest-worlds is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 33 tokens per session (791 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of closest-worlds, Apache-2.0.

A way to test how close a conclusion is to failing by finding the smallest change that would reverse it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract a claim, examine possible changes, find the nearest failure scenario, measure the difference, and rank the factors that matter most.
Why use it?
It shows which assumptions or factors the conclusion depends on most and how fragile the reasoning is.

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 a claim, examine possible changes, find the nearest failure scenario, measure the difference, and rank the factors that matter most.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/closest-worlds
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 closest-worlds
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 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 791 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 $0.00033 $0.00791
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00396
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00079

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6b61fb85e1f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

closest-worlds 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 closest-worlds — 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/closest-worlds/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Closest Worlds Strategy

Lewis semantics: evaluate counterfactuals by finding the nearest possible world where the antecedent holds and checking whether the consequent follows.

Method

  1. causal-claim-extraction identifies the conclusion and its supporting factors
  2. factor-enumeration maps the space of possible changes
  3. flip-point-detection searches for minimal changes that flip the conclusion
  4. counterfactual-scenario-construction builds the nearest world where conclusion fails
  5. fragility-measurement computes distance from actuality to flip-point
  6. load-bearing-identification ranks factors by proximity to flip

Budget Table

Parameter S M L
Change candidates explored 5 12 25
Flip-point searches 3 8 15
World-distance comparisons 3 6 12

Orchestration

causal-claim-extraction → factor-enumeration
→ [generate change candidates]:
    flip-point-detection (binary search for minimal flip)
    → counterfactual-scenario-construction (build nearest world)
    → fragility-measurement (compute distance)
→ load-bearing-identification (rank by proximity)

Subagents

  • causal-claim-extraction (conclusion identification)
  • factor-enumeration (change space mapping)
  • flip-point-detection (minimal flip search)
  • counterfactual-scenario-construction (world building)
  • fragility-measurement (distance computation)
  • load-bearing-identification (proximity ranking)

Available Tactics

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

Tactic When to use
minimal-change-search Tactic: Generate candidate changes, detect flip-points where conclusion reverses, measure fragility as distance to nearest flip.
systematic-factor-ablation Tactic: List all factors, remove one at a time, assess conclusion stability, rank factors by load-bearing importance.

Available SOPs

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 10d ago First seen · 89 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 6b61fb85e1f9

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closest-worlds is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 791 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 closest-worlds, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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