design-falsification-test

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Lets your agent design a concrete test that could disprove a claim, ranking options by cost and information value, a design claude skill.

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 design-falsification-test skill

About this skill

Specify a concrete observation, computation, intervention, counterexample, or measurement that would count against the sharpened claim, prioritizing cheap high-information tests.

What this skill tells your AI

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

Purpose

Specify a concrete observation, computation, intervention, counterexample, or measurement that could count against a claim.

Input contract

required: [sharp_claim, scope, candidate_observables]
optional: [cost, available_tools, competing_predictions]
constraints: [test must identify a failure condition and measurement rule]

Procedure

  1. Enumerate claim commitments and possible failure observations.
  2. Rank tests by information value and cost.
  3. Specify the cheapest decisive test with pass/fail interpretation.

If the falsification test has an executable intervention and verdict rule, consider execute-probe as the next tactic.

Output contract

produces: [falsification_test, failure_condition, measurement_plan, priority_rationale]
delta_fields: [findings, evidence_updates, uncertainties, decisions]

Quality gates

  • Test must be capable of producing evidence against the claim, not only confirming examples.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not design a test whose acceptance criterion is copied from the claim.

Provenance map

  • resolved: red-team-truthseeking

Signals

GitHub stars
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Forks
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Last commit
Sep 2026
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Source
github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine