independent-convergence-audit

independent-convergence-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,119 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for checking whether several reasoning paths that reach the same conclusion are genuinely independent. Independent paths do not rely on the same assumptions, information, or blind spots.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps assess convergence claims, identify shared assumptions and sources, and estimate how much additional confidence agreement should provide.
Why use it?
Agreement can look like strong evidence even when every path inherited the same mistake. This audit reduces confidence when the evidence is duplicated or correlated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps assess convergence claims, identify shared assumptions and sources, and estimate how much additional confidence agreement should provide.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/independent-convergence-audit
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/stress-test --skill independent-convergence-audit
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 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,119 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 $0.00081 $0.01119
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00560
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00112

Measured 11d ago against content hash 434ab26e3e29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

independent-convergence-audit 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 11d 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/independent-convergence-audit/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Independent Convergence Audit

A dedicated attacker for one specific piece of evidence artifacts often lean on heavily: N reasoning paths "independently" converged on the same conclusion, and that triple- (or N-fold) convergence is treated as strong corroboration. It IS strong — IF the paths were independent. But paths run by the same model, from the same context, under the same prompts, may carry the same blind spot and the same priors. Correlated agreement is weak evidence dressed as strong evidence. This strategy measures how independent the convergence really was and corrects the confidence we should draw from it.

Why agreement is only sometimes evidence

The logic "many paths agree → likely true" is the Condorcet/jury intuition, and it has a hard precondition: the paths' errors must be (at least partly) INDEPENDENT. If three jurors all read the same biased newspaper, their unanimous verdict carries roughly the weight of one juror, not three. The "newspaper" candidates are: (1) the same base model with the same training priors, (2) the same conversation context seen by all subagents, (3) the same prompt framing imposed by the orchestrator, (4) the same source literature feeding all paths, (5) a shared aesthetic pull toward unification (the elegance-trap acting on all paths at once). Each shared source collapses N effective-independent-paths toward 1.

The independence ledger (central artifact)

For the convergence claim, score each potential shared-source channel:

Shared channel Present? How much it correlates the paths Effect on effective N
same base model / priors yes (structural) high — same inductive biases large collapse
same conversation context depends — were subagents isolated? medium-high medium collapse
same prompt framing depends — did orchestrator steer toward "find the unifier"? medium medium collapse
same source literature depends — did all paths cite the same sources? medium medium collapse
shared elegance pull likely medium — all drawn to the pretty answer medium collapse

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 11d ago First seen · 54 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 434ab26e3e29

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independent-convergence-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,119 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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