hold-monster

hold-monster is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 68 tokens per session (688 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

An emergency circuit-breaker guide for stopping a large service, deployment pipeline, or runaway process at the infrastructure level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan emergency stops and system-wide freezes, including decisions about when and how much infrastructure to halt.
Why use it?
It limits damage from cascading failures, runaway costs, or threats to data integrity by providing a way to halt operations quickly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan emergency stops and system-wide freezes, including decisions about when and how much infrastructure to halt.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill hold-monster
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 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 688 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 $0.00068 $0.00688
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00069

Measured 9d ago against content hash f50260b1b3bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hold-monster 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/hold-monster/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.

Hold Monster

Freeze a large-scale system or service as an emergency circuit breaker.

What This Skill Does

Hold Monster is Hold Person scaled to larger targets. The real-world version is the emergency circuit breaker: halting an entire service, freezing a deployment pipeline, or stopping a runaway process at the infrastructure level. This is the big red button — it stops everything, and it should only be pressed when the alternative is worse. In this grimoire, Hold Monster is treated as a hybrid spell with a prototype delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Hold Monster (spell).

When To Use

  • A system-wide emergency requires an immediate halt: runaway costs, cascading failures, or data integrity threats.
  • You need to design a circuit breaker or emergency stop mechanism for a large-scale system.

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 emergency: what is happening, how fast, and what is the blast radius if unchecked?
  3. Determine the freeze scope: what can be stopped safely vs. what must keep running even in an emergency.
  4. Activate the circuit breaker with explicit logging and notification.
  5. Define the recovery plan: how to restore service safely after the emergency is resolved.
  6. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • A circuit breaker specification: what stops, what stays running, and what triggers the halt.
  • A recovery plan: step-by-step restoration procedure after the emergency.

Pitfalls / Guardrails

  • Call out the glue, permissions, or missing infrastructure before you imply this is fully operational.
  • Circuit breakers are for genuine emergencies. Do not use system-wide halts for problems that can be solved with targeted intervention.
  • Every circuit breaker must have a recovery plan. Stopping a system without knowing how to restart it is not safety — it is a different kind of failure.

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 · 68 tokens per session scan A f50260b1b3bf

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hold-monster 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 688 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.