normal-mode

normal-mode is a command for coding agents from softcane/human-state-skills. It costs 8 tokens per session (98 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that turns off all active human-state response modes and returns the assistant to its usual style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to stop modes such as burnout-mode, brain-fog-mode, or reality-check-mode in the repository.
Why use it?
It removes special response rules from earlier modes so the current question is answered normally.

Command

Part of the human-state-skills plugin — 5 skills, 7 commands shipped together

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 commands/softcane/human-state-skills/normal-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softcane/human-state-skills

Or install human-state-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 7 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for normal-mode

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/softcane/human-state-skills/normal-mode.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/softcane/human-state-skills/normal-mode)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/softcane/human-state-skills/normal-mode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/softcane/human-state-skills/normal-mode.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 98 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 $0.00008 $0.00098
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00049
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00010

Measured 5d ago against content hash ca5daa40a691, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

normal-mode 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 5d ago.

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.

commands/normal-mode.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Stop using every human-state mode in this repository:

  • overloaded-mode
  • burnout-mode
  • foggy-mode
  • brain-fog-mode
  • plan-compass
  • reality-check-mode

Return to the assistant's normal response style.

Do not continue the previous mode unless the user invokes it again.

Do not announce Normal mode active or add any mode-status preface. Just answer the user's current question normally.

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. 5d ago First seen · 20 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A ca5daa40a691

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normal-mode is a command published in the GitHub repository softcane/human-state-skills (111 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 98 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.