locate-object

locate-object is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 72 tokens per session (683 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A search skill for finding a known file, document, configuration value, resource, or data source in a large repository or pipeline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate configuration files, referenced documents, resource definitions, and the source of data shown in output.
Why use it?
It helps when you know an artifact exists but do not know where it is or where a value came from.

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 locate configuration files, referenced documents, resource definitions, and the source of data shown in output.

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

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill locate-object
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 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 683 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 $0.00072 $0.00683
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00342
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00068

Measured 9d ago against content hash fd8efeb95537, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

locate-object 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/locate-object/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.

Locate Object

Find a specific file, artifact, or resource you know exists but cannot locate.

What This Skill Does

In D&D, Locate Object senses the direction to a specific object within range. The real-world version is artifact search: finding that config file you know exists somewhere, locating a document someone mentioned but did not link, tracking down the source of a data value through a pipeline, or finding where a specific resource is defined in a sprawling repository. In this grimoire, Locate Object is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Locate Object (spell).

When To Use

  • You know something exists but cannot find it: a file, document, config value, or resource.
  • A data value appears in output and you need to trace it back to its source or definition.
  • Someone referenced an artifact without providing a link or path, and you need to locate it.

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. Define the target artifact: what is it, what would it look like, and what context do you have?
  3. Determine the search strategy: file name patterns, content search, reference tracing, or dependency analysis.
  4. Search systematically, narrowing scope with each round.
  5. Deliver the located artifact with its path, context, and any related artifacts discovered along the way.
  6. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • The located artifact: path, location, or reference.
  • Context: what the artifact is, why it matters, and any related artifacts found during the search.

Pitfalls / Guardrails

  • Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
  • Locate Object finds things through search and deduction, not through unauthorized access. Respect access boundaries.
  • If the artifact cannot be found, say so clearly rather than returning a near-miss as if it were the target.

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 · 72 tokens per session scan A fd8efeb95537

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locate-object 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 72 tokens to every session and 683 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.