falsification-first-stress-test

falsification-first-stress-test is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,834 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research review that actively tries to disprove important claims instead of only defending them. A claim is falsifiable when evidence could show that it is wrong.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge scientific papers, hypotheses, experiments, or other research artifacts and report what survives, fails, or remains untested.
Why use it?
It exposes weak evidence, hidden flaws, and claims that cannot be properly tested before more time or resources are spent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to challenge scientific papers, hypotheses, experiments, or other research artifacts and report what survives, fails, or remains untested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/falsification-first-stress-test
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 falsification-first-stress-test
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 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,834 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00084 $0.01834
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00917
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00183

Measured 9d ago against content hash f68586ad2b14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

falsification-first-stress-test 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.

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.

skills/falsification-first-stress-test/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Falsification-First Stress Test

Core question: Where have we fooled ourselves — and is each load-bearing claim even falsifiable?

This campaign is a deliberate inversion of publication-oriented stress testing. In a publication frame, the artifact is a thing to be defended; success = it survives debate and gets hardened. That frame optimizes for persuasiveness and is actively dangerous for truth-seeking research: it rewards a claim for being un-attackable, which is exactly the failure mode of an unfalsifiable theory. Here the artifact is a suspect. We WANT to break it, because breaking it teaches us something true and cheap (compute/thought) before we spend expensive effort (sandbox, wet-lab) on a false premise. Confidence is not assumed and defended down; it is EARNED up, only by surviving honest assault.

Stance (operator-set, non-negotiable)

  • 证伪优先, 不摁死 (falsification-first, not execution). The goal is diagnostic: surface flaws WE overlooked, not manufacture a verdict that kills the work for sport. A successful attack revises the map or demotes a claim; it does not "win." A failed attack (the claim survives) is also a real result — corroboration — provided the attack was severe (Mayo: a claim is corroborated only to the degree it passed a test it would probably have failed if false).
  • No hardening. Finding a weakness NEVER triggers "patch it to look stronger." It triggers exactly one of: (a) revise the claim, (b) demote the claim's status, (c) record it as honest residue. Patching-to-survive is the patchwork anti-pattern this whole project rejects.
  • Unfalsifiability is the worst outcome, not the best. A claim no attack can touch is not strong — it is empty. Flag it RED and demote to conjecture/analogy.

Three outcome buckets (the only verdicts)

Every load-bearing claim exits in exactly one bucket:

Bucket Meaning Action
BROKEN A concrete refutation (counterexample / disagreeing case / failed derivation) was found. Revise the claim or demote it. Record what the refutation taught.
CORROBORATED The claim was stated falsifiably, attacked severely, and held. Raise confidence. Record WHAT was forbidden-and-held (the more it forbids, the stronger).
UNFALSIFIABLE No statement of the claim could be found that some observation/computation could refute. RED FLAG. Demote to conjecture or relabel (e.g. "isomorphism"→"analogy").

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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 · 100 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A f68586ad2b14

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falsification-first-stress-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,834 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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