acrobatics

acrobatics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 53 tokens per session (591 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A workflow guide for handling fragile sequences of API calls, callbacks, retries, and dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan integrations, manage asynchronous handoffs, handle pagination and retries, and define recovery checkpoints.
Why use it?
It helps prevent timing errors, broken state, and wasted calls when several steps must happen in the right order.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan integrations, manage asynchronous handoffs, handle pagination and retries, and define recovery checkpoints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/acrobatics
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill acrobatics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 591 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 $0.00053 $0.00591
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00296
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00059

Measured 8d ago against content hash df97f91fddd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

acrobatics 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 8d 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.

generated/hermes/actions-access-and-automation/acrobatics/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.

Acrobatics

Thread complex systems without tripping rate limits, retries, or state.

What This Skill Does

Use this skill when the work is a choreography problem: brittle sequencing, async handoffs, or constrained flows that must stay upright end to end. It shines on API dances, dependency ordering, and recovery logic where grace matters more than brute force. In this grimoire, Acrobatics is treated as a metaphorical skill with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Acrobatics (skill).

When To Use

  • An integration requires a precise sequence of calls, callbacks, or tokens.
  • Concurrency, pagination, or retries can topple the flow if handled clumsily.
  • You need a nimble route through constraints rather than more compute.

Prerequisites

  • No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.

Procedure

  1. Restate the target, the success condition, and any no-touch boundaries before taking action.
  2. Map the sequence, tight constraints, and recovery points before moving.
  3. Reorder or simplify the path to reduce wasted calls, unstable state, and timing risk.
  4. Return the stepwise route with checkpoints, balance points, and fallback moves.
  5. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • A sequenced execution plan for the constrained flow.
  • A list of state, timing, and rate-limit risks.
  • A compact recovery playbook for dropped or misordered steps.

Pitfalls / Guardrails

  • Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
  • Do not mistake unnecessary cleverness for agility; the cleanest path wins.
  • Surface hidden coupling and time-sensitive assumptions instead of relying on luck.

Verification

  • Check that the result includes every deliverable promised above.
  • Check that confirmed facts, assumptions, and inferences are visibly separated.
  • Check that the metaphor still maps cleanly to a real operational mechanism.

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. 8d ago First seen · 66 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A df97f91fddd0

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acrobatics is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts (107 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 591 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.