compare-hypotheses

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Lets your agent compare competing hypotheses side by side in a matrix of predictions, evidence, and assumptions.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the compare-hypotheses skill

About this skill

Build an explicit comparison matrix over hypotheses, predictions, and evidence.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine in skills/compare-hypotheses/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Compare competing hypotheses against shared evidence, predictions, assumptions, and explanatory scope.

Input contract

required: [hypotheses, evidence_records, comparison_criteria]
optional: [priors, discriminating_predictions, model_constraints]
constraints: [criteria and evidence must be applied symmetrically]

Procedure

  1. Normalize hypotheses to comparable claims and assumptions.
  2. Map each hypothesis to predictions and supporting or conflicting evidence.
  3. Compare explanatory coverage, residual anomalies, and required assumptions.
  4. Record relative support and evidence that would change the comparison.

Output contract

produces: [hypothesis_comparison, prediction_matrix, support_profile, discriminating_evidence]
delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, uncertainties, decisions, open_questions]

Quality gates

  • Shared evidence is not counted repeatedly.
  • A criterion omitted for one hypothesis is omitted for all.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not choose the simplest-sounding hypothesis without comparing predictive adequacy and assumptions.

Provenance map

  • resolved: compare-hypotheses

Signals

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Sep 2026
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Source
github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine
compare-hypotheses by yogsoth-ai: Skill · ahel