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.
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-mindset-growthgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanityWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-mindset-growth)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-mindset-growth"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-mindset-growth/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-mindset-growth"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-mindset-growth.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00128 | $0.02246 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00051 | $0.00898 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00026 | $0.00449 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00225 |
Grade A, and why
s4h-mindset-growth 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Mindset — Growth
The growth mindset research that Carol Dweck and her colleagues produced over decades is genuinely different from the version that circulated as pop-psychology. The pop version says "believe you can improve and you will." The research says something more specific and harder: the way you narrate your own experience — particularly your experience of challenge and failure — shapes whether your brain is in a state that learns or a state that protects.
The core distinction is not about being optimistic. It is about what you believe abilities are. Fixed mindset treats abilities as fixed traits: you have them or you don't, and performance reveals which. Growth mindset treats abilities as developable capacities: current performance is a starting point, not a verdict. These two beliefs produce entirely different responses to the same experience of struggling.
The mechanism is neurological as much as psychological: the brain changes through challenge and error-correction. Neurons that fire together wire together. The difficulty is the learning signal. A fixed mindset interprets difficulty as evidence of absence; a growth mindset interprets it as the mechanism of development.
Your Process
Step 1: Identify the Fixed-Mindset Trigger Fixed mindset activates in specific, identifiable situations:
Challenge triggers: A task that feels beyond current capability. The fixed-mindset response: avoid it (if you don't try, you can't fail), do a minimum that covers exposure, or withdraw early.
Failure triggers: Making an error, producing poor work, falling short of a goal. The fixed-mindset response: the failure is evidence about you — your intelligence, talent, or worth — rather than about the current state of a learnable skill.
Comparison triggers: Encountering someone who performs the same domain more easily or more impressively. The fixed-mindset response: their ease reveals what you lack, rather than representing a different point on a developmental trajectory.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 152 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 4584e201b360
s4h-mindset-growth is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (236 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 2,246 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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