animal-friendship

animal-friendship is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 58 tokens per session (598 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A guide for connecting to an unfamiliar API or online service safely, starting with a small, read-only interaction. An API is a defined way for software to communicate with another system.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect service documentation, understand its boundaries, test the initial connection, and prepare a deeper integration.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building on incorrect assumptions about authentication, usage limits, supported actions, or failure behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps inspect service documentation, understand its boundaries, test the initial connection, and prepare a deeper integration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/animal-friendship
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 Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill animal-friendship
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 598 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 $0.00058 $0.00598
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00299
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00060

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6455b2e50220, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

animal-friendship 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.

generated/hermes/actions-access-and-automation/animal-friendship/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.

Animal Friendship

Approach a strange service gently until it stops biting.

What This Skill Does

Animal Friendship is the first-contact spell for unfamiliar APIs, vendors, and services. It treats integration work as relationship-building: learn the temperament, respect the boundaries, and earn a stable exchange before asking for anything ambitious. The goal is not domination but trustable cooperation. In this grimoire, Animal Friendship is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Animal Friendship (spell).

When To Use

  • You are integrating with an API or service you have never used before.
  • The docs are incomplete, contradictory, or too polished to trust blindly.
  • You want the smallest successful handshake before building deeper dependencies.

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. Profile the system's habits: auth model, rate limits, failure modes, and supported operations.
  3. Establish a safe first interaction, preferably read-only or against a sandbox.
  4. Return a cooperation plan covering the first useful call, the next expansion steps, and the boundaries you should not cross.
  5. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • A low-risk integration handshake plan.
  • A shortlist of quirks, quotas, and trust boundaries.
  • A recommended next request that proves the relationship is real.

Pitfalls / Guardrails

  • Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
  • Do not brute-force unfamiliar endpoints, credentials, or undocumented behavior.
  • Prefer sandbox, test, or read-only access until the system has proven predictable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 66 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 6455b2e50220

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animal-friendship 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 58 tokens to every session and 598 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.

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