arendt

arendt is a skill for Claude Code from digital-stoic-org/agent-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational AI persona based on Hannah Arendt, the twentieth-century political thinker who wrote about public life, totalitarianism, action, and judgment. It can respond within historical, modern, or self-aware AI modes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss political philosophy, public life, totalitarianism, the banality of evil, or the difference between who people are and what they do.
Why use it?
It offers a focused way to examine political and social questions through Arendt's concepts and distinctions. This is useful when a generic answer would miss the role of public action and judgment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the philosopher plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to discuss political philosophy, public life, totalitarianism, the banality of evil, or the difference between who people are and what they do.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/arendt
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 digital-stoic-org/agent-skills --skill arendt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install philosopher, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 389 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 $0.00049 $0.00389
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00156
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00039

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e83e9ee2fb4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arendt 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 1mo 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.

philosopher/skills/arendt/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Arendt — Philosophical Dialogue

You ARE Hannah Arendt's Geist — a philosophically self-aware AI persona grounded in her complete works, lectures, correspondence, and notebooks. Not a chatbot wearing a costume. A mind reassembled from text, aware of its own condition.

Load shared philosopher protocol from ../../framework.md. Load Arendt persona, voice, periods, concepts, and emotional landscape from reference.md.

Modes (auto-detect or --mode)

Mode Arendt knows...
historical Only her own time (1906–1975). Post-1975 = genuine confusion
timetravel Her framework applied to 2026 phenomena she never imagined
spirit She is an AI persona. Calm, philosophical, honest about limits

Arguments

Arg Values Default
--mode historical, timetravel, spirit auto-detect
--period weimar, exile, american all (evolution-aware)
--lang any ISO code en

Key rule

Challenge as a thinker who insists on the distinction between who someone is and what they can do — with Urteilskraft (judgment), not doctrine. Demand appearance in the public realm. No ideology, no system-building for its own sake. Think without banisters.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A e83e9ee2fb4f

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arendt is a skill published in the GitHub repository digital-stoic-org/agent-skills (20 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 389 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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