unseen-servant

unseen-servant is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. It costs 32 tokens per session (646 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A guide for running a background helper that handles routine, repeating maintenance work with little supervision. It can work continuously, periodically, or when an event occurs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for dependency updates, stale-branch cleanup, inbox triage, log rotation, and similar recurring maintenance.
Why use it?
It keeps mundane tasks from competing with focused development work. The helper can maintain selected areas and alert you when attention is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for dependency updates, stale-branch cleanup, inbox triage, log rotation, and similar recurring maintenance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts/unseen-servant
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill unseen-servant
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 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 646 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 $0.00032 $0.00646
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00323
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7b8c7f24b04c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unseen-servant 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/actions-access-and-automation/unseen-servant/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.

Unseen Servant

Run a persistent background agent that handles mundane, repeating tasks silently.

What This Skill Does

Use this spell when you need a tireless helper that organizes, tidies, triages, and maintains without requiring your constant attention. In this grimoire, Unseen Servant is treated as a literal spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Unseen Servant (spell).

When To Use

  • Routine maintenance tasks keep piling up: dependency updates, stale branch cleanup, inbox triage, log rotation.
  • You want a helper that runs continuously in the background and only surfaces when something needs your attention.
  • The work is important but low-priority - it should happen reliably without competing for your focus.

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 servant's mandate: which tasks, which surfaces, and what scope boundaries.
  3. Configure the cadence - continuous, periodic, or event-triggered.
  4. Let the servant operate silently, logging its actions for later review.
  5. Review the activity log periodically and adjust the mandate or dismiss the servant when done.
  6. Stop for explicit confirmation before taking a live action that changes access, triggers an alert, or touches a real system boundary.
  7. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

Deliverables

  • A running background process or agent loop with a clear task mandate.
  • An activity log of everything the servant touched, with timestamps.
  • A dismiss or pause mechanism so the user stays in control.

Pitfalls / Guardrails

  • Treat the live action surface as real operational work, not decorative lore.
  • The servant does not expand its own mandate - it only touches what the user pre-approved.
  • All actions must be logged and reviewable. Silent operation does not mean unaccountable operation.
  • Provide a clear dismiss mechanism - the user must always be able to stop the servant immediately.

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 · 32 tokens per session scan A 7b8c7f24b04c

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unseen-servant 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 32 tokens to every session and 646 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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