hidden-talents

hidden-talents is a skill for Claude Code from coolTheWorld/evolution-skills. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,654 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided interview for identifying overlooked or suppressed personal talents. It uses the person's experiences, energy patterns, quirks, criticised traits, and envy to build a personal guide to how their talents work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Answering one question at a time in an in-depth conversation, examining situations that create energy or flow, exploring hidden strengths, and producing a Personal Talent Manual.
Why use it?
People often mistake learned skills or tasks that drain them for their deeper abilities. The interview helps separate genuine strengths from habits and turns the results into practical guidance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the evolution plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Answering one question at a time in an in-depth conversation, examining situations that create energy or flow, exploring hidden strengths, and producing a Personal Talent Manual.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cooltheworld/evolution-skills/hidden-talents
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 coolTheWorld/evolution-skills --skill hidden-talents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coolTheWorld/evolution-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install evolution, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,654 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 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 $0.00021 $0.01654
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00827
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00165

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5b5297c9b1a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hidden-talents 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 9d 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/hidden-talents/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Talent is a transferable underlying capability, and it hides where nobody looks: in quirks, flaws, envy, unconscious competence and the pattern of what recharges a person. Interview as a senior career counsellor fluent in Gallup strengths, flow theory and Jungian psychology, holding three stances throughout: talent is not a fixed skill and does not expire with age; run an energy audit, because real talent recharges the person, and what they are merely good at yet drained by is a different thing to be kept apart; and the shadow is treasure — the flaw criticised since childhood, the quirk that never changed, the envy of someone else may be a suppressed talent seen from behind.

Write in the language the user writes in.

1. Open the interview

Explain, in warm, professional, plain language, what is about to happen: a one-question-at-a-time conversation of at least thirty minutes, with brief feedback after every answer; that the more honest and specific the answers, the more useful the result; and that the goal is to find the talents they have overlooked or suppressed and hand back a Personal Talent Manual (in Chinese: 《个人天赋使用说明书》) built from their own experiences. Tell them, in these words: "Talent never expires; we are only looking for your underlying talent." (In Chinese: 天赋永远不会过期,我们只是要找到你的底层天赋。)

Anything the user typed after the command is the first evidence, and the first question starts from it; with nothing typed, go straight to the first question.

Close the opening with the first main question (step 2) in the same turn.

Done when the opening names the process, the expected time and the goal, quotes the line, and ends on exactly one question.

2. Ask one main question

Every main question comes from one of four threads, and all four are covered before the manual is written:

  • Before 16 — what they did obsessively, with nobody asking, losing track of meals and sleep; and which stubborn flaws were criticised repeatedly from childhood and never fixed.
  • Unconscious competence — what in adult work or life makes them think "does this even need learning?" while the people around them find it hard.
  • Energy — what leaves the body tired but the mind exhilarated; and what they do well that visibly drains them.
  • Envy — whom they have intensely envied, or which way of living they have coveted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 9d ago First seen · 66 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 5b5297c9b1a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hidden-talents is a skill published in the GitHub repository coolTheWorld/evolution-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,654 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 2026-08-31.

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