true-polymorph

true-polymorph is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 126 tokens per session (895 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A guide for permanently changing a system, technology stack, or organization into a fundamentally different form. It applies when the original version will no longer be kept or supported.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for irreversible rewrites, database technology changes, major structural reorganizations, or other point-of-no-return transformations.
Why use it?
It addresses transformations where rollback and backward compatibility are no longer practical requirements. This helps frame work that changes a system's identity, interfaces, or structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for irreversible rewrites, database technology changes, major structural reorganizations, or other point-of-no-return transformations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/true-polymorph
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 true-polymorph
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 895 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 $0.00126 $0.00895
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00089

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2b095af8b76d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

true-polymorph 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 8d 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/actions-access-and-automation/true-polymorph/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

True Polymorph

Transform a system so completely that the original form is gone — no rollback, no undo.

What This Skill Does

In D&D, True Polymorph is the permanent transformation — the target becomes something fundamentally different, and if held long enough, the change is irreversible. Unlike Polymorph (temporary disguise or adaptation), True Polymorph means the old identity is gone. The real-world version is irreversible system transformation: rewriting a service from Python to Rust so thoroughly the Python version cannot be recovered, migrating from SQL to a graph database with no backward-compatible schema, or restructuring an organization so completely that the old org chart is not just outdated but nonsensical. True Polymorph is the point of no return. In this grimoire, True Polymorph is treated as a hybrid spell with a prototype delivery profile. Canonical reference input: True Polymorph (spell).

When To Use

  • A system, stack, or organization must become something fundamentally different and the old form will not be maintained.
  • Backward compatibility or rollback is no longer a real requirement.
  • The transformation changes identity, interfaces, or structure so completely that dependents must migrate too.

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 current form, target form, and what exactly makes the transformation irreversible.
  3. Run or review a reversible trial transformation first to surface hidden failure modes.
  4. Inventory every dependent system, contract, and operator workflow that assumes the old form.
  5. Plan the cutover so dependents migrate before the original interface disappears.
  6. Return the irreversible transformation plan with go or no-go criteria and explicit point-of-no-return conditions.
  7. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 8d ago First seen · 70 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 2b095af8b76d

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true-polymorph 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 126 tokens to every session and 895 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.