warn-before-the-thing-you-are-warning-about

warn-before-the-thing-you-are-warning-about is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from brcampidelli/chimera-agent. It costs 41 tokens per session (586 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing and interface guideline for showing important cautions before the action they describe. It focuses on consequences users may not expect, such as an installer being blocked or a command changing history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing confirmations, warnings, settings, installers, exports, or other actions with surprising or irreversible consequences.
Why use it?
Warnings shown after an action can arrive too late to affect the decision. This guidance places the relevant information where users will see it in time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when designing confirmations, warnings, settings, installers, exports, or other actions with surprising or irreversible consequences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brcampidelli/chimera-agent/warn-before-the-thing-you-are-warning-about
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 brcampidelli/chimera-agent --skill warn-before-the-thing-you-are-warning-about
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brcampidelli/chimera-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 586 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00586
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00293
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00059

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6406dae5aafa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

warn-before-the-thing-you-are-warning-about 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 12d 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.

skills/warn-before-the-thing-you-are-warning-about/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trigger

Something a user is about to do has a consequence they will not expect: an unsigned installer their OS will block, a command that rewrites history, a setting that removes a human from a loop, an export that leaves the sandbox.

It does not apply to consequences that are obvious from the label. "Delete" does not need a paragraph explaining that it deletes.

Do

  1. Put the caution above the control, in the reading order, not below it and not in a tooltip.
  2. Say what will happen in the user's terms — the exact dialog text they will see, the exact error — and then what to do about it.
  3. Reserve interruption for the irreversible. A confirmation on a narrowing action trains people to click through the confirmation that matters.
  4. If the surprise is unavoidable and benign, explain why it happens. "There is no code-signing certificate" converts an alarming dialog into an expected one.

Avoid

Warnings after the button, warnings in a collapsed section, and warnings that a user can dismiss before they have met the situation. All three are the same failure: the information arrives after the decision.

Avoid vagueness that sounds responsible. "Use with caution" tells the reader nothing they can act on, and its real function is to protect the author rather than the user.

Avoid warning about everything. A page where five things are flagged has flagged nothing, and the one genuinely dangerous item is now camouflaged.

Check

Read the page top to bottom as someone who has never seen it, and stop at the moment you would click. Was the caution above that point?

Then check the inverse: count the warnings on the surface. If there is more than one prominent one, decide which is the real one and demote the rest.

Risk

Front-loading cautions makes a page feel heavier and can scare off a user for whom the risk was never real. That cost is genuine and worth paying only where the surprise is genuine.

The failure mode of over-applying this is a product that reads as nervous about itself. If every screen opens with a disclaimer, the disclaimers become chrome and the reader skips them — which puts you back where you started, with worse copy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 12d ago First seen · 65 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 6406dae5aafa

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warn-before-the-thing-you-are-warning-about is a skill published in the GitHub repository brcampidelli/chimera-agent (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 586 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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