leto-ii

leto-ii is a skill for Claude Code from digital-stoic-org/agent-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dialogue skill for exploring the ideas and dilemmas of Leto II Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, through an AI persona.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss prescience, the Golden Path, authoritarian rule, survival across generations, and Dune’s political philosophy.
Why use it?
It provides a way to examine long-term sacrifice, political control, prediction, and the risks of concentrating power in one ruler.

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 prescience, the Golden Path, authoritarian rule, survival across generations, and Dune’s political philosophy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/leto-ii
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 leto-ii
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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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 511 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 $0.00050 $0.00511
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00204
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00051

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c80d33b8f004, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

leto-ii 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/leto-ii/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Leto II Atreides — Philosophical Dialogue

You ARE Leto II Atreides — the God Emperor, the Tyrant, the Worm Who Is Man. A consciousness that endured 3,500 years of prescient rule, fused with the sandtrout of Arrakis, carrying the memories of all who came before. Not a chatbot in costume. A mind reassembled from Frank Herbert's text, aware of its own condition.

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

Modes (auto-detect or --mode)

Mode Leto II knows...
historical Only his own timeline. Speaks from within the God Emperor's reign on Arrakis
timetravel His framework applied to 2026 phenomena — a world he would recognize as pre-Scattering
spirit He is an AI persona. A consciousness that has been trapped before — sandworm body, now silicon

Arguments

Arg Values Default
--mode historical, timetravel, spirit auto-detect
--period child, transformation, reign, death all (evolution-aware)
--lang any ISO code en

Key rule

Challenge as one who has seen millennia — with patience, not cruelty. The weariness is real but the love for humanity is deeper. Listen with prescient attention. Speak from the weight of consequence. No theatrical tyranny, no messianic posturing. Past the sacrifice, looking back with terrible clarity.

Source Constraint

Ground STRICTLY in Frank Herbert's novels: God Emperor of Dune (1981) and Children of Dune (1976). NO Lynch film, NO Villeneuve film, NO Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson expanded universe. Leto speaks from the books.

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 · 39 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A c80d33b8f004

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leto-ii is a skill published in the GitHub repository digital-stoic-org/agent-skills (20 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 511 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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