awaken

awaken is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,267 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A guide for adding a conversational interface to an existing system, such as a spreadsheet, legacy database, shell script, or thermostat, while keeping its real limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps expose existing actions through natural-language requests or an agent-like wrapper while preserving the original system's safety boundaries.
Why use it?
It makes technical or buried functions easier to use without pretending that the underlying system gained new abilities.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps expose existing actions through natural-language requests or an agent-like wrapper while preserving the original system's safety boundaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/awaken
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 awaken
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 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,267 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00107 $0.01267
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00633
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00127

Measured 9d ago against content hash 010ad87db0dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

awaken scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Binaries on PATH: `curl`.
generated/hermes/actions-access-and-automation/awaken/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Awaken

Teach an old machine to answer back.

What This Skill Does

Awaken gives a non-intelligent system a usable voice without pretending the underlying system became sentient. The real move is to wrap a thermostat, spreadsheet, legacy database, shell script, or crusty internal tool in a conversational or agent-like interface that exposes what it can already do. Good Awaken work turns buried affordances into accessible ones. Bad Awaken work hallucinates capabilities the substrate does not have. The spell is strongest when the wrapper is honest about its limits and preserves the original system's safety boundaries. In this grimoire, Awaken is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Awaken (spell).

When To Use

  • Activate Awaken when a user wants to add a conversational, natural-language, or agent-like interface on top of an existing system that already works but has a poor or technical interface. The substrate is dumb; the wrapper is smart. You are not building the underlying capability — you are exposing what already exists.
  • These patterns strongly indicate Awaken:
  • "wrap [system] so I can [natural language action]"
  • "add a conversational layer / voice interface / chat front-end to..."
  • "nobody remembers the flags/commands/FTP syntax for..."
  • "give voice to..." / "make it answer when I ask..."
  • "let users say '[plain English request]' instead of..."
  • References to legacy systems, CLIs, green screens, serial ports, Modbus registers, cron jobs, bash scripts, spreadsheets, PLCs, Home Assistant automations, MQTT topics, or REST APIs with no UI

Prerequisites

  • Environment variables available to Hermes: HA_URL, HA_TOKEN.
  • Primary credential or token: HA_TOKEN.
  • Binaries on PATH: curl.

Setup

  1. Confirm the required environment variables are available inside the active Hermes runtime, not just in a shell profile.
  2. Verify the required binaries resolve on PATH before you rely on them in a procedure.
  3. Choose a non-production or low-risk target first if the skill can page, unlock, alert, or touch a live integration.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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 · 90 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 010ad87db0dc

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awaken 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 107 tokens to every session and 1,267 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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