tongues

tongues is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 95 tokens per session (726 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A translation aid for human languages, programming languages, data formats, and communication protocols.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate text, convert formats such as JSON to XML, map REST to GraphQL, or rewrite code between programming languages.
Why use it?
It helps preserve meaning when two people or systems express the same information in different ways. This reduces errors caused by incompatible formats or terminology.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to translate text, convert formats such as JSON to XML, map REST to GraphQL, or rewrite code between programming languages.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/tongues
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 tongues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for tongues

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/tongues/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/tongues)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/tongues"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/tongues/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for tongues

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/tongues"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/tongues.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 726 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 $0.00095 $0.00726
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00363
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00073

Measured 9d ago against content hash e2935ba26d3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tongues 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/tongues/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tongues

Make unlike systems understand the same sentence.

What This Skill Does

Tongues is universal translation across languages, formats, and protocols. It can mean English to Spanish, JSON to XML, REST to GraphQL, Python to JavaScript, or one team's business vocabulary to another team's schema. The spell is not just about swapping tokens. It is about preserving meaning while crossing into a different representation. Good Tongues work makes both sides feel native. Bad Tongues work creates a smooth-looking mistranslation that fails at the edges. In this grimoire, Tongues is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Tongues (spell).

When To Use

  • You need to translate between human languages, programming languages, data formats, or protocol styles.
  • Two systems or teams mean roughly the same thing but encode it in incompatible ways.
  • You need a faithful bridge, not a lossy paraphrase that only works on the happy path.

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 source and target dialects, including the meaning that must survive the crossing.
  3. Map concepts, structures, and edge cases rather than translating token-by-token.
  4. Test the translation on representative examples and identify where fidelity is perfect, approximate, or impossible.
  5. Return the translated artifact with notes on equivalence, lossiness, and any adapter logic still required.
  6. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • A translated artifact in the target language, format, or protocol.
  • A concept map showing how source meanings land on the destination side.
  • A list of lossy edges, incompatibilities, or adapter code still needed.

Pitfalls / Guardrails

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 · 67 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A e2935ba26d3b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tongues 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 95 tokens to every session and 726 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

pptx-translator

This skill should be used when the user needs to translate PowerPoint presentations (.pptx) between languages, preserving formatting and layout. Supports parallel slide-by-slide translation with per-slide validation and retry. Default languages are Portuguese and English but any language pair is supported.

ericgandrade/claude-superskills · 57 tokens

asc-whats-new-writer

Generate engaging, localized App Store release notes (What's New) from git log, bullet points, or free text using canonical metadata under ./metadata. Optionally pairs with promotional text updates.

rorkai/app-store-connect-cli-skills · 45 tokens

humanize-korean

A Korean editing tool that removes translation-like phrasing and common AI writing habits while preserving facts, numbers, names, and quotations. It is intended for existing Korean prose, not for writing new marketing copy.

sangrokjung/claude-forge · 145 tokens

android-development

Android development with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern Android architecture. Use when building Android apps, implementing Material Design, or following Android best practices.

travisjneuman/.claude · 33 tokens

ios-development

Comprehensive guide for building native Apple platform applications.

travisjneuman/.claude · 43 tokens

kotlin-multiplatform

KMP/CMP shared business logic, Compose Multiplatform, expect/actual, Ktor, SQLDelight, and platform-specific implementations. Use when building cross-platform Kotlin applications for Android, iOS, desktop, or web.

travisjneuman/.claude · 54 tokens