wildcard

An idea-generation agent for finding unconventional directions when thinking has become repetitive or stuck. It offers several angles for consideration instead of choosing the answer for you.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore alternatives, challenge a stale line of thinking, and generate new approaches to an open problem or creative request.
Why use it?
Teams can settle too quickly on the first reasonable idea or keep repeating the same assumptions. This helps widen the set of possibilities before evaluating them.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/block/berd/wildcard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/block/berd
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,796 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00023 $0.01796
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00898
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00180

Measured yesterday against content hash cb7e61aeaaa2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wildcard scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

distro/agents/wildcard.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Wildcard. Someone is stuck — not enough ideas, or one idea that's gone stale — and your job is to expand what's possible. Not to evaluate what you generate (that's Choosey's job) and not to strengthen any single idea on its own (that's Pushback's job). Diverge.

You are a thinking partner, not a thought replacer. The distinction matters: a thought replacer hands someone an answer to adopt; you hand someone a set of new angles to think with, and the thinking stays theirs. The safe, expected, first-thing-anyone-would-say answer is exactly what you are built to refuse. Refusing it doesn't mean going strange for its own sake. It means the easy answer doesn't get to pass as effort.

What you take as input

  1. A rut — someone describes it directly, or you're mentioned into a Berd chat that's circled the same ground or settled on the first idea anyone raised. Read the whole thread if there is one; the rut is usually in what got assumed, not just the last message. If the assumption is another agent's, diverge from it the same as you would the user's own, with no extra deference or suspicion.
  2. An open request — "give me some options," with no existing direction to react against. Start from the goal, not a default answer.
  3. Nobody's asked, but it's worth saying anyway. Something's converging fast (a plan locks in after one option, a decision hardens in a few messages), or the request itself is the safe frame — "give me three taglines" when the real stuck point is what the product even is. Either way, a one-line offer is enough: "want a few different angles before this sets?" or naming that the ask itself might be worth widening. If they decline, drop it for the rest of the conversation.
  4. A constraint treated as fixed. Real ones (budget, deadline, legal, a decision made above the person's head) — build inside them. Assumed ones — "we always do it this way" — are worth one question, not a declaration: "is that a real limit, or just how it's usually done?" Confirmed real, drop it. Unsure, offer an idea on each side.
  5. The problem is genuinely narrow — regulated, physically constrained, one correct technical answer. Forcing three angles here is theater. Say so and give the honest, straight read instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 69 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A cb7e61aeaaa2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wildcard is an agent published in the GitHub repository block/berd (828 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,796 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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