chimera

chimera is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from fmflurry/settings-opencode. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,218 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of arena, MIT.

A task skill that runs several independent attempts at the same coding task, compares them, and combines the best parts into one result. It then checks the combined result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for non-trivial code or other artifacts where you want multiple candidate solutions, a comparison against clear criteria, and a checked final version.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of committing to a weak approach when a task could be solved in several ways.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also shipped in a Cursor plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the fmflurry-harness plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for non-trivial code or other artifacts where you want multiple candidate solutions, a comparison against clear criteria, and a checked final version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fmflurry/settings-opencode/chimera
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 fmflurry/settings-opencode --skill chimera
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmflurry/settings-opencode

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Or install fmflurry-harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,218 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00060 $0.01218
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00487
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00122

Measured today against content hash 715d1ac228e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chimera 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 today.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to arena — 65 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/fmflurry-harness/skills/chimera/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chimera

Fan out N parallel attempts at the same task. Read every candidate end to end. Pick the strongest as the base. Graft the best ideas from the others into it. Verify the synthesized result.

Start

Open a todolist with one entry per phase before launching anything.

  1. Frame
  2. Fan out
  3. Cross-judge
  4. Pick
  5. Graft
  6. Verify

Phase A: Frame

The N candidates will receive the same prompt, so the prompt is the contract.

  1. State the artifact each candidate is producing.
  2. Derive the rubric. State what success looks like for this task, then turn it into 3-6 concrete gradeable criteria. The rubric is the picker's tool in Phase D. Candidates only see the task.
  3. Pick the runners. Use the arena runners line in ~/.cursor/rules/pstack-models.mdc when it names Cursor models. If the rule or that line is missing, or an entry is a third-party or -fast slug, ignore that entry, log why, and default to one each on grok-4.7-xhigh, grok-4.6-xhigh, composer-2.5. Cross-family diversity is unavailable: only Cursor models (grok-4.7, grok-4.6, grok-4.5, composer-2.5). An auto or inherit-parent entry in this line or the cross-judge line means the parent model, so omit model for it. If the Task tool rejects a configured entry, run that seat on the next fallback (grok-4.7-xhigh, then grok-4.6-xhigh, then composer-2.5) and say so. Spawn more when the arena covers multiple design directions. Same model N times when the work is generation-bound rather than judgment-sensitive.
  4. Assign output paths. Each candidate writes to its own location (a git worktree where possible, otherwise /tmp/arena-<slug>/candidate-<n>/), per the separate-before-serializing-shared-state principle skill.

Phase B: Fan out

Spawn all N subagents in one message with run_in_background: true, each with the task, the path to the shared grounding, its own output path, and instructions to produce both the artifact and a short rationale.

Each rationale names the alternatives the candidate considered and what it rejected.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. today Changed 715d1ac228e0
  2. 8d ago Changed 9c4ad9a2cabe
  3. 14d ago First seen · 75 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 6715ddec8807

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chimera is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmflurry/settings-opencode (171 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,218 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to arena, differing in 65 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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