glibness

glibness is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 62 tokens per session (659 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A rhetoric guide for presenting a position with confident, fluent, and persuasive language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify supporting evidence, remove distracting qualifiers, and rehearse authoritative phrasing.
Why use it?
It helps a sound argument, pitch, proposal, or presentation avoid being weakened by poor wording or unnecessary hesitation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to identify supporting evidence, remove distracting qualifiers, and rehearse authoritative phrasing.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill glibness
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 659 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 $0.00659
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00066

Measured 9d ago against content hash f5c93e30ee22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glibness 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/glibness/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.

Glibness

Make any argument sound maximally credible and polished.

What This Skill Does

Glibness makes everything you say sound utterly convincing. The real-world version is rhetorical polish: taking a position and presenting it with maximum confidence, fluency, and persuasive structure. This is the skill of the trial lawyer, the pitch artist, the keynote speaker who makes mediocre ideas sound inevitable. In this grimoire, Glibness is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Glibness (spell).

When To Use

  • You have a position that is substantively sound but needs to be presented with maximum rhetorical force.
  • A pitch, proposal, or argument needs polish to match the quality of its underlying logic.
  • You want to rehearse or draft language that sounds confident and authoritative.

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 core argument and its strongest supporting evidence.
  3. Strip hedging language, unnecessary qualifiers, and weak framing.
  4. Restructure for maximum impact: lead with the conclusion, back with evidence, close with the ask.
  5. Audit for dishonesty: flag anywhere the polish is masking a genuine weakness rather than presenting a genuine strength.
  6. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • A polished version of the argument with confident, authoritative language.
  • A honesty audit: notes on where rhetorical polish is covering real weaknesses.
  • Alternative framings ranked by persuasive force.

Pitfalls / Guardrails

  • Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
  • Flag when polish is compensating for a fundamentally flawed argument. Glibness should amplify truth, not manufacture it.
  • Distinguish between legitimate confidence and dishonest certainty. Saying something confidently does not make it true.

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 · 62 tokens per session scan A f5c93e30ee22

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glibness 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 659 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.