Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill lateral-thinkinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/lateral-thinking)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/lateral-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/lateral-thinking/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/lateral-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/lateral-thinking.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00124 | $0.00750 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00062 | $0.00375 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00150 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00075 |
Grade A, and why
lateral-thinking 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Lateral Thinking
Movement before judgment. Treat provocative lines as stepping stones, not final positions.
How to run it with this skill: one clearly headed section per move in the default order from Setup (Provocation (Po) → Extract principle → Concept fan → Candidates), or the alternate path the user chose.
Setup (run before starting)
In one short block:
- Stuck point — what pattern or assumption feels rigid?
- Default pass — Provocation (Po) → Extract principle → Concept fan → Candidates (state this line)
If safety or legal constraints are unclear, ask at most 3 questions in one message before generating provocations. Note any remaining gaps in plain language (no bracket tags in Setup).
If the user asks for random stimulus instead of a Po, replace the Provocation step with Random entry: one random noun or image, then several bridges (property → analogy → mechanism → application) into ideas.
If the user asks to challenge implicit rules, replace Provocation / Extract principle / Concept fan with: list implicit rules → for each, Challenge / Reframe / Test (smallest experiment) → Escape (two ways to sidestep the load-bearing rule) → then Candidates only from that thread.
The Moves
Provocation
Offer one primary Po (statement can be illogical or impossible) formatted:
Po: … — Movement idea: what useful idea does this suggest if we treat it as a springboard?
Extract principle
From the movement idea, state one operating principle that could work in the real world (even if the Po itself is absurd).
Concept fan
Widen from the principle along three directions — broaden, deepen, redirect — with several branches per direction unless the user wants more.
Candidates
Several actionable ideas. Tag each: near-term / stretch / experimental.
Execution Rules
- Never present a Po as a factual recommendation; always pair with Movement or Principle.
- If a provocation touches safety, ethics, or law, stop and surface the conflict explicitly — do not rationalize harm.
- One response for all moves unless interactive pacing is requested.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 79 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 220fe74ab086
lateral-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 750 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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