confusion

confusion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 65 tokens per session (651 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A testing approach that deliberately feeds systems unexpected, random, and unusual inputs to see how they fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for chaos testing, fuzzing, monkey testing, adversarial test cases, and edge-case checks for systems, APIs, and workflows.
Why use it?
It reveals weaknesses that normal, predictable tests may miss before real users or incidents expose them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for chaos testing, fuzzing, monkey testing, adversarial test cases, and edge-case checks for systems, APIs, and workflows.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill confusion
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 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 651 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 $0.00065 $0.00651
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00065

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2944772ad68a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

confusion 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/influence-and-behavior/confusion/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.

Confusion

Generate controlled chaos to stress-test a system's resilience.

What This Skill Does

Confusion makes targets act randomly and unpredictably. The real-world version is chaos engineering: injecting controlled randomness, unexpected inputs, and edge cases to discover how systems behave when things go wrong. This is fuzzing, monkey testing, and the art of breaking things on purpose so they do not break by accident. In this grimoire, Confusion is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Confusion (spell).

When To Use

  • You want to stress-test a system, API, or workflow with unexpected inputs and edge cases.
  • A process works perfectly under ideal conditions and you need to know how it fails under chaos.
  • You need to generate adversarial test cases, random inputs, or edge-case scenarios.

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. Identify the system, API, workflow, or process to stress-test.
  3. Generate a set of chaotic inputs: edge cases, malformed data, race conditions, unexpected sequences.
  4. Predict how each chaotic input should be handled (graceful degradation, error, recovery).
  5. Deliver the chaos test suite with expected vs. worst-case outcomes for each scenario.
  6. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • A chaos test suite: specific adversarial inputs, edge cases, and unexpected scenarios.
  • Expected behavior for each scenario: how the system should handle it vs. how it might fail.

Pitfalls / Guardrails

  • Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
  • Chaos must be controlled. Always define blast radius and rollback procedures before injecting randomness.
  • Do not generate chaos for production systems without explicit safety gates and authorization.

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 · 65 tokens per session scan A 2944772ad68a

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confusion 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 65 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.