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Agent skill

Evaluate Optionality

by yogsoth-ai in yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine

Evaluate the value of staging, deferral, reversible commitment, and information-gathering options under uncertainty; return decision-relevant option value and trigger conditions.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passed

Install Evaluate Optionality

skills CLI
$ npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill evaluate-optionality -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine evaluate-optionality --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/evaluate-optionality .claude/skills/evaluate-optionality && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
evaluate-optionality
GitHub stars
504
Token cost
~424 tokens
SKILL.md length
128 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
12
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Evaluate the value of staging, deferral, reversible commitment, and information-gathering options under uncertainty; return decision-relevant option value and trigger conditions.

  • Works in 4 steps: Represent immediate, deferred, staged,… → Estimate each action's reversible value,… → Identify trigger conditions that would… → …
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Input contract, Procedure and Output contract, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Evaluate Optionality is an agent skill from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. Evaluate the value of staging, deferral, reversible commitment, and information-gathering options under uncertainty; return decision-relevant option value and trigger conditions.

Its SKILL.md is about 420 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: A 267-skill research graph in pure markdown — 51 research operations built from 216 single-purpose steps, composed in any order with explicit backtracking. One npx install, no… The licence is Apache-2.0.

Example prompts

  • “/evaluate-optionality”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Represent immediate, deferred, staged, and information-gathering actions on a common timeline.
  2. Estimate each action's reversible value, delay cost, information gain, and downside exposure.
  3. Identify trigger conditions that would justify advancing, pausing, or abandoning each staged option.
  4. Emit an option-value comparison and the conditions under which deferral is preferable to commitment.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bdb3524. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are yaml).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Evaluate Optionality loads about 424 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 128 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~50
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~424

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine at commit bdb3524, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© yogsoth-ai). 128 words, ~424 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/evaluate-optionality/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
evaluate-optionality
description
Evaluate the value of staging, deferral, reversible commitment, and information-gathering options under uncertainty; return decision-relevant option value and trigger conditions.

evaluate-optionality

Purpose

Evaluate staging, deferral, reversible commitment, and information-gathering options under uncertainty.

Input contract

yaml
required: [decision_options, uncertainty_register, time_horizon, consequence_model]
optional: [irreversibility_costs, information_actions, trigger_conditions]
constraints: [each option states timing, reversibility, information gained, and consequence range]

Procedure

  1. Represent immediate, deferred, staged, and information-gathering actions on a common timeline.
  2. Estimate each action's reversible value, delay cost, information gain, and downside exposure.
  3. Identify trigger conditions that would justify advancing, pausing, or abandoning each staged option.
  4. Emit an option-value comparison and the conditions under which deferral is preferable to commitment.

Output contract

yaml
produces: [option_value_table, timing_policy, trigger_conditions, uncertainty_notes]
delta_fields: [findings, evidence_updates, uncertainties, decisions, recommended_jumps]

Quality gates

  • Each option includes at least one consequence of acting now and one consequence of waiting.
  • Information value is not counted unless it can change a downstream decision.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not call delay optionality when waiting only postpones an irreversible loss. If trigger conditions are unobservable, mark the option unresolved.

Provenance map

  • resolved: temporal-sequencing

© yogsoth-ai, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/evaluate-optionality of yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bdb3524

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Questions about Evaluate Optionality

What does Evaluate Optionality do?

Evaluate the value of staging, deferral, reversible commitment, and information-gathering options under uncertainty; return decision-relevant option value and trigger conditions. Evaluate Optionality is an agent skill from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. Evaluate the value of staging, deferral, reversible commitment, and information-gathering options under uncertainty; return decision-relevant option value and trigger conditions.

How do I install Evaluate Optionality in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill evaluate-optionality -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/evaluate-optionality in yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine) into .claude/skills/evaluate-optionality in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Evaluate Optionality in Codex?

Run `npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill evaluate-optionality -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/evaluate-optionality in yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine) into .agents/skills/evaluate-optionality in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Evaluate Optionality in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill evaluate-optionality -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/evaluate-optionality, .gemini/skills/evaluate-optionality, .github/skills/evaluate-optionality and .opencode/skills/evaluate-optionality in your project.

What does Evaluate Optionality need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Evaluate Optionality is instructions for the agent only.

Does Evaluate Optionality access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Evaluate Optionality safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Evaluate Optionality use?

Evaluate Optionality is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Evaluate Optionality use?

About 424 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Evaluate Optionality?

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Who maintains Evaluate Optionality?

yogsoth-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine, which has 504 GitHub stars. The repository holds 12 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.

Source: yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.