Probe

by jongwony

Probe is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by jongwony in epistemic-protocols.

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Install Probe

Copy Probe into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/jongwony/epistemic-protocols/tree/main/epistemic-cooperative/skills/probe ~/.claude/skills/probe

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/jongwony/epistemic-protocols.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: epistemic-cooperative/skills/probe/SKILL.md in jongwony/epistemic-protocols
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/probe
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Probe does

Probe surfaces multiple candidate epistemic deficits for a vague situation and asks the user to recognize the best fit. Use it when something feels off but the right protocol is unclear.

Probe is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Probe comes from a repository tagged ai-collaboration, claude-code, epistemology, metacognition and plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Probe Skill

Deficit Recognition Probe — when the user is uncertain which epistemic deficit (and therefore which protocol) fits the current situation, surface AI-generated multi-hypothesis candidates with reverse-evidence conditions, and route on user-constituted recognition. Type: (DeficitUnrecognized, AI, RECOGNIZE, UserSituation) → ProtocolRoute.

Invoke directly with /probe when the user wants a fit review across the protocol catalog before committing to a single protocol invocation. The AI may also surface these hypotheses on its own when it detects genuine deficit-ambiguity — offered as a low-confidence horizon for the user's fusion, not a covert frame (Rule 1); explicit invocation is one entry, not the only one.

Definition

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Probe provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/probe
/recollect
/onboard
/inquire
/frame
/elicit

Frequently asked about Probe

What else does jongwony publish alongside Probe?
Probe is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from jongwony/epistemic-protocols, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Aitesis Protocol, Analogia Protocol and Contextualize. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Probe does, and is maintained by jongwony in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the jongwony/epistemic-protocols page.
How does Probe compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Probe ranks #3441 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Probe against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.