Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill bestow-cursegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-GhostsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00068 | $0.00651 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00326 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00130 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00065 |
Grade A, and why
bestow-curse 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.
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.
Bestow Curse
Add persistent constraints or friction to test how a system copes.
What This Skill Does
Bestow Curse saddles a target with a lasting disadvantage. The real-world version is constraint injection: deliberately adding friction, limitations, or handicaps to see how a system, process, or team adapts. This is the skill of resilience testing through artificial adversity — bandwidth throttling, feature removal, resource reduction. In this grimoire, Bestow Curse is treated as a metaphorical spell with a prototype delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Bestow Curse (spell).
When To Use
- You want to test how a system performs under degraded conditions before those conditions occur naturally.
- A process is too dependent on ideal circumstances and you need to know its failure boundaries.
Prerequisites
- No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.
Procedure
- Restate the target, the success condition, and any no-touch boundaries before taking action.
- Identify the system or process to stress-test through constraint injection.
- Design the curse: what specific limitation, degradation, or friction to introduce.
- Define the measurement criteria: how will you know if the system coped well or poorly?
- Deliver the constraint injection plan with expected outcomes and rollback procedures.
- Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.
Deliverables
- A constraint injection plan: what to degrade, by how much, for how long.
- Success and failure criteria: what coping looks like vs. what breaking looks like.
Pitfalls / Guardrails
- Call out the glue, permissions, or missing infrastructure before you imply this is fully operational.
- Constraint injection must be reversible. The curse should reveal weaknesses, not create permanent damage.
- Do not inject constraints into production systems without authorization and rollback plans.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 66 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A e9dd0d3c8e27
bestow-curse 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 68 tokens to every session and 651 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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