systematic-factor-ablation

systematic-factor-ablation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/stress-test. It costs 30 tokens per session (543 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reasoning method that removes one supporting factor at a time to see how much a conclusion changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test arguments, compare assumptions, and rank the factors that matter most.
Why use it?
It shows which assumptions or pieces of evidence a conclusion truly depends on, so fragile reasoning is easier to spot.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to test arguments, compare assumptions, and rank the factors that matter most.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/stress-test/systematic-factor-ablation
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 systematic-factor-ablation
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 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 543 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 $0.00030 $0.00543
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00217
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 280ef7f139ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systematic-factor-ablation 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 1mo 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/systematic-factor-ablation/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

Systematic Factor Ablation Tactic

Ablation methodology: remove factors individually and measure conclusion degradation.

Orchestration

  1. factor-enumeration lists all factors supporting the conclusion
  2. single-factor-removal removes one factor, reasons about what changes
  3. fragility-measurement scores degradation (0.0 = no effect, 1.0 = collapse)
  4. Repeat steps 2-3 for each factor within budget
  5. load-bearing-identification ranks factors by degradation score
  6. Terminate when all factors tested or budget exhausted

Scoring

  • 0.0–0.2: Decorative factor (conclusion unaffected)
  • 0.2–0.5: Supporting factor (conclusion weakened but holds)
  • 0.5–0.8: Important factor (conclusion significantly degraded)
  • 0.8–1.0: Load-bearing factor (conclusion collapses without it)

Subagents Dispatched

  • factor-enumeration (initial listing)
  • single-factor-removal (per-factor ablation)
  • fragility-measurement (degradation scoring)
  • load-bearing-identification (final ranking)

Termination Conditions

  • All factors within budget tested
  • Early termination if first load-bearing factor found and budget is S
  • Saturation: consecutive factors all score below 0.2

Available SOPs

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

SOP When to use
factor-enumeration List all key factors, conditions, and assumptions that support or enable the artifact's conclusion.
fragility-measurement Compute a fragility index from flip-point distances and degradation scores, summarizing how robust the conclusion is.
load-bearing-identification Identify which factors are "load-bearing walls" — factors whose removal would collapse the conclusion.
single-factor-removal Remove one specified factor from the artifact's support structure and reason about how the conclusion changes.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 65 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 280ef7f139ce

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systematic-factor-ablation is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/stress-test (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 543 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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