Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill hypnotic-patterngit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-GhostsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00062 | $0.00640 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00031 | $0.00320 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00128 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00064 |
Grade A, and why
hypnotic-pattern 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Hypnotic Pattern
Design attention-capture patterns that hold focus in a bounded context.
What This Skill Does
Hypnotic Pattern mesmerizes everyone who looks at it. The real-world version is attention design: loading animations, progress indicators, onboarding flows, and visual patterns that keep users oriented and engaged during a bounded experience. The line between helpful focus and addictive capture is the central design tension. In this grimoire, Hypnotic Pattern is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Hypnotic Pattern (spell).
When To Use
- A flow, onboarding sequence, or presentation needs better attention-holding mechanics.
- Users are dropping off during a multi-step process and you need to understand why and how to keep them.
Prerequisites
- No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.
Procedure
- Restate the target, the success condition, and any no-touch boundaries before taking action.
- Identify the experience and its attention drop-off points.
- Design engagement patterns: progress indicators, micro-rewards, curiosity gaps, or visual anchors.
- Map the boundary: when should the pattern release attention? Hypnotic Pattern has a duration, not an infinity.
- Deliver the attention design with an explicit note on where engagement becomes compulsion.
- Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.
Deliverables
- Attention-capture patterns tailored to the specific flow or experience.
- A boundary specification: when the pattern should deliberately release the user's attention.
Pitfalls / Guardrails
- Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
- Distinguish attention-capture from addiction mechanics. This spell has a duration — it is not designed to hold attention indefinitely.
- Refuse infinite scroll, autoplay-without-end, or engagement patterns designed to prevent the user from leaving.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 65 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 3e558fe5e3b9
hypnotic-pattern 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 640 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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