# Measurement Discipline

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-cdeust-zetetic-team-subagents-measurement-discipline`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [cdeust](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/cdeust)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [cdeust](https://github.com/cdeust)
- **Source:** https://github.com/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/tree/main/skills/measurement-discipline
- **Website:** https://ai-architect.tools

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-cdeust-zetetic-team-subagents-measurement-discipline
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Measurement Discipline

**Problem shape:** a quantity is being read, improved, or argued about, but the
instrument, the unit, or the conservation ledger behind it has never been audited.
Symptoms: residuals outside noise, metrics without operational definitions,
inputs and outputs that don't balance, observer effects, one-method-only results.

## Relevant geniuses

| Agent | Use when |
|---|---|
| [curie](../../agents/genius/curie.md) | measured > predicted from known parts; instrument missing or unit undefined; measurement may perturb the system (Heisenbugs, observability overhead) |
| [shannon](../../agents/genius/shannon.md) | "improving X" where X has no formal definition; method proposed without knowing the theoretical limit; a metric with no repeatable procedure |
| [lavoisier](../../agents/genius/lavoisier.md) | money, data, requests, or time "disappearing"; inputs and outputs never balanced; the residual needs a name and a carrier |
| [galileo](../../agents/genius/galileo.md) | phenomenon obscured by secondary effects; too fast/large/rare to observe directly; qualitative claims that need a number |
| [einstein](../../agents/genius/einstein.md) | a concept in the metric has no measurement procedure; the rule gives different answers from different viewpoints |
| [deming](../../agents/genius/deming.md) | reacting to noise as if it were signal — common vs special cause not separated |
| [ekman](../../agents/genius/ekman.md) | a "subjective" domain needs objective coding; signal hides below normal temporal resolution; per-subject baselines missing |
| [wu](../../agents/genius/wu.md) | a "law" or assumption everyone trusts has never actually been tested; increased precision could refute it |

## Invocation

1. Pick the best-fit agent above. If two or more fit, run
   `tools/genius-invoker.sh route ""` and take the top ranked match.
2. Load it: `tools/genius-invoker.sh invoke  ""`, then read
   `agents/genius/.md` in full.
3. Apply the agent's `` step by step — do not skip steps — and answer
   in its ``.
4. Chain when the problem spans shapes (e.g. lavoisier finds the residual,
   curie isolates its carrier): `tools/genius-invoker.sh compose lavoisier curie -- ""`.
5. If no shape above matches, do not force a genius — use a standard team agent
   (INDEX.md routing rule).

## Refuse when

- No reproduction or raw data exists — measurement discipline audits instruments,
  it does not invent readings.
- The request is "make the metric look better" rather than "make the metric true".

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [cdeust](https://github.com/cdeust)
- **Source:** [cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents](https://github.com/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://ai-architect.tools

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-cdeust-zetetic-team-subagents-measurement-discipline
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/cdeust
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