calm-emotions

calm-emotions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 79 tokens per session (712 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A communication guide for lowering tension in heated conversations, messages, meetings, or team conflicts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft calmer replies, reframe inflammatory wording, and create cool-down steps before a difficult follow-up.
Why use it?
It helps people acknowledge strong feelings and restore conditions for productive discussion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to draft calmer replies, reframe inflammatory wording, and create cool-down steps before a difficult follow-up.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill calm-emotions
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 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 712 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 $0.00079 $0.00712
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00356
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00071

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7e17f87227ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

calm-emotions 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.

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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/influence-and-behavior/calm-emotions/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Calm Emotions

De-escalate tension and restore productive conditions in a heated situation.

What This Skill Does

Calm Emotions suppresses strong feelings, ending fear and charm effects. The real-world version is de-escalation: drafting responses that lower the temperature in a heated thread, designing cool-down protocols for conflict situations, or reframing inflammatory language into productive terms. This is the spell for when the conversation has gone off the rails and someone needs to be the adult. In this grimoire, Calm Emotions is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Calm Emotions (spell).

When To Use

  • A conversation, thread, or meeting has gotten heated and needs de-escalation before productive work can resume.
  • You need to draft a response to an angry message that acknowledges the emotion without escalating.
  • A team conflict needs a structured cool-down before the next interaction.

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. Assess the emotional temperature: what specifically is inflamed and why.
  3. Identify the legitimate grievance underneath the heat — there usually is one.
  4. Draft the de-escalation: acknowledge the emotion, validate the concern, redirect to productive action.
  5. Include a cool-down recommendation: how long before re-engaging, and what should happen in the interim.
  6. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • A de-escalation response that acknowledges emotion without dismissing or escalating.
  • A cool-down protocol: recommended pause duration and re-engagement conditions.
  • The underlying legitimate concern extracted from the heated communication.

Pitfalls / Guardrails

  • Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
  • De-escalation is not dismissal. "Calm down" is not a de-escalation strategy — it is an escalation trigger.
  • Do not suppress legitimate anger about real problems. Sometimes the heat is appropriate and the system needs to change, not the emotion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 · 67 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 7e17f87227ea

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calm-emotions 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 79 tokens to every session and 712 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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