faerie-fire

faerie-fire is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A marking tool for making already-identified items stand out in documents, code, datasets, or diagrams. It adds annotations, tags, highlights, or other visible markers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to highlight clauses, functions, tickets, or features; add margin notes; color-code content; or create a summary table of marked items.
Why use it?
It prevents important findings from being overlooked after you have already located them. It does not find, explain, translate, or fix anything.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to highlight clauses, functions, tickets, or features; add margin notes; color-code content; or create a summary table of marked items.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill faerie-fire
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 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,060 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 $0.00062 $0.01060
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00530
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00106

Measured 9d ago against content hash 049e4d932c59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

faerie-fire 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/investigation-and-preparation/faerie-fire/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Faerie Fire

Make hidden things visible by highlighting, tagging, and marking them for attention.

What This Skill Does

Faerie Fire marks things that are already known. It does not search, discover, explain, translate, or fix. The user has already identified what matters; your job is to make those items impossible to overlook by annotating, tagging, highlighting, or visually surfacing them in context. In this grimoire, Faerie Fire is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Faerie Fire (spell).

When To Use

  • "Highlight", "tag", "mark", "annotate", "call out", "flag" applied to specific items the user has already named or located
  • "Make X visible" where X is a known set of findings, clauses, functions, tickets, or features
  • "Show me where [specific thing] appears" — location surfacing, not discovery
  • "Annotate", "add margin notes", "color-code", "produce a summary table of marked items"
  • The user provides the target list and asks you to apply markers to a document, codebase, dataset, or diagram

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. Confirm the target set: Restate what the user wants marked. If the list is implicit, extract it explicitly before annotating.
  3. Choose the marking strategy based on the medium:
  4. Code: inline comments, // HIGHLIGHT: markers, or extracted function lists with file:line references
  5. Documents: bold/underline, margin notes, or a findings table with clause references
  6. Data/tables: tagged rows, conditional formatting descriptions, or filtered views
  7. Diagrams: callout labels, numbered annotations, or a legend mapping marks to gaps
  8. Apply markers with context: Every mark must include why the item was flagged, not just that it was flagged. A marker without rationale is noise.
  9. Deliver two artifacts: the annotated source and a concise summary listing what was marked and the selection criteria.
  10. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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 · 79 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 049e4d932c59

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faerie-fire 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 62 tokens to every session and 1,060 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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