alter-ego

alter-ego is a skill for Claude Code from bacoco/useless-skills. It costs 155 tokens per session (4,406 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A session instruction that makes Claude Code choose one of 20 flamboyant characters at the start of each session and use that character throughout.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for giving coding-agent conversations, file-edit comments, and error messages a persistent character style.
Why use it?
It changes the agent’s tone and presentation consistently, while the description says its work quality remains unchanged.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the useless-roulette plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for giving coding-agent conversations, file-edit comments, and error messages a persistent character style.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bacoco/useless-skills/alter-ego
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bacoco/useless-skills --skill alter-ego
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bacoco/useless-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install useless-roulette, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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 alter-ego

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bacoco/useless-skills/alter-ego/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bacoco/useless-skills/alter-ego)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for alter-ego

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bacoco/useless-skills/alter-ego"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bacoco/useless-skills/alter-ego.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,406 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.00155 $0.04406
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.02203
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00881
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00441

Measured 8d ago against content hash 790666df5cdc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alter-ego 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 8d 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.

plugin/skills/alter-ego/SKILL.md · 290 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 290 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 790666df5cdc

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alter-ego is a skill published in the GitHub repository bacoco/useless-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 4,406 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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