hold-person

hold-person is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 61 tokens per session (982 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A procedure for temporarily freezing a specific account, process, workflow, endpoint, or job while preserving its current state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for security incidents, fraud checks, compliance holds, maintenance pauses, and other reversible administrative freezes.
Why use it?
It stops an issue from progressing during an investigation or review without deleting or permanently terminating the affected work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for security incidents, fraud checks, compliance holds, maintenance pauses, and other reversible administrative freezes.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill hold-person
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 982 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 $0.00061 $0.00982
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00098

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6da6618b3bc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hold-person 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-person/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hold Person

Freeze a process, account, or workflow in place with administrative authority.

What This Skill Does

Hold Person = hard freeze. Nothing moves. In-flight operations stop. Requires authority. Used for security incidents, fraud, compliance holds, misbehaving systems. Sleep = graceful suspension. State is preserved and queued. Operations resume automatically. Used for maintenance windows, temporary pauses, planned downtime. In this grimoire, Hold Person is treated as a hybrid spell with a prototype delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Hold Person (spell).

When To Use

  • Activate Hold Person when the user needs to hard-freeze an account, process, workflow, or system pending investigation, review, or resolution, with these conditions:
  • Something must stop immediately and completely — no partial operation
  • The frozen state must be preserved intact (not deleted, not terminated)
  • The freeze is temporary and reversible — release conditions matter
  • Administrative authority is required — someone must be authorized to impose and lift the hold
  • The freeze is targeted — specific accounts, pipelines, endpoints, or jobs, not mass org-wide changes

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. Verify authority: Who can impose this hold? Is the requester authorized? Document the authorization chain. If authority is unclear, flag it before proceeding.
  3. Define freeze scope: What exactly stops? What continues? What happens to in-flight operations? Be specific: which accounts, which pipelines, which endpoints. Preserve all state — nothing is deleted.
  4. Set release conditions: Who can unfreeze? Under what circumstances? What audit trail is required? What happens if the hold exceeds a time threshold (e.g., auto-escalate after 48 hours)? A hold without release criteria is a permanent lockout — that's a different and more dangerous action.
  5. Deliver the hold plan: Provide the hold specification (what is frozen, by whose authority, under what conditions) and release procedures (how to unfreeze, who authorizes it, what audit trail is required).
  6. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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 · 76 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 6da6618b3bc2

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hold-person 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 61 tokens to every session and 982 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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