stinking-cloud

stinking-cloud is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 104 tokens per session (805 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A defensive access-control method that makes a network area, endpoint, or resource difficult or impossible for unwanted traffic to use, while leaving the underlying system intact.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used for rate limits, IP blocks, honeypots, tarpits, and geographic restrictions.
Why use it?
It helps slow, frustrate, or redirect attackers without destroying the protected infrastructure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is used for rate limits, IP blocks, honeypots, tarpits, and geographic restrictions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/stinking-cloud
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 stinking-cloud
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 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 805 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 $0.00104 $0.00805
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash b6c0701fdc76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stinking-cloud 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/containment-and-intervention/stinking-cloud/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stinking Cloud

Make an area inhospitable without destroying it.

What This Skill Does

In D&D, Stinking Cloud fills an area with nauseating gas — creatures inside are incapacitated but the terrain itself is undamaged. The real-world version is area denial: making a zone, endpoint, or resource unusable to unwanted traffic without permanently destroying or modifying it. Rate limiting, IP-range blocks, honeypots, tarpits, geographic restrictions. Stinking Cloud is defensive — it protects a perimeter by making the area inside it miserable for intruders while leaving the underlying infrastructure intact. In this grimoire, Stinking Cloud is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Stinking Cloud (spell).

When To Use

  • You need to deter access to a resource, endpoint, or zone without destroying it.
  • Defensive measures should slow, frustrate, or redirect unwanted traffic rather than block it outright.
  • You want to set up a honeypot, tarpit, or deterrent zone that wastes attackers' time and resources.

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 area to deny: which endpoints, IP ranges, geographic zones, or resources.
  3. Choose the deterrent mechanism: rate limiting, tarpitting, CAPTCHA walls, honeypots, or access throttling.
  4. Deploy the deterrent and verify it affects only the intended zone.
  5. Monitor for legitimate traffic caught in the cloud and create bypass mechanisms if needed.
  6. Set review criteria for when the cloud should be lifted or the perimeter adjusted.
  7. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • A deployed area-denial mechanism with clear boundaries.
  • Monitoring for false positives: legitimate users caught in the deterrent zone.
  • A review schedule for adjusting or lifting the deterrent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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 · 69 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A b6c0701fdc76

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stinking-cloud 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 104 tokens to every session and 805 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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