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 icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers --skill performing-close-readinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowersWrote 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/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/performing-close-reading)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/performing-close-reading"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/performing-close-reading.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Data Exfiltration · line 66 Code or instructions that leak agent conversation context to external services, potentially exposing sensitive user interactions.Fix: Remove any code that sends prompts, responses, or session data externally. Preserve user privacy; never exfiltrate conversation content.
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 | $0.00040 | $0.02288 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.01144 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00458 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00229 |
Grade A, and why
performing-close-reading 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Performing Close Reading
Purpose
Produce accountable interpretations by separating what is observable in an object from the interpretive moves made about it. The skill keeps quotation, description, inference, contextual claim, and theoretical implication distinct while allowing them to interact.
Contract
Accepts
- A supplied passage, image, scene, interface, recording, performance description, archival item, or material artifact.
- Provenance and context available to the researcher.
- A research question or claim to test.
Requires
- Direct access to the object or a reliable reproduction.
- Enough context to avoid obvious misidentification or truncation.
- A stated analytical purpose.
Produces
- Observation records.
- Interpretive inferences linked to observed features.
- At least one rival reading.
- Contextual claims requiring verification.
- A close-reading gate report.
May produce
- A revised local claim.
- A list of additional contextual sources needed.
FAILwhen the object is unavailable, corrupted, mistranscribed, or insufficient for the requested conclusion.
Fails when
- The requested analysis depends on an object not supplied or reliably accessible.
- Quoted language cannot be distinguished from paraphrase.
- The interpretation requires invented context, authorial intention, or source history.
- The requested conclusion exceeds what the object can establish.
Guarantees
- Observations and interpretations are separately labeled.
- Every interpretive claim points to at least one specific feature.
- Rival readings and evidentiary limits remain visible.
Does not guarantee
- A uniquely correct interpretation.
- Historical representativeness, authorial intention, or broader causal explanation.
- That local evidence alone can support the manuscript’s largest claim.
When to use
Use with literary, philosophical, visual, cinematic, digital, performative, architectural, archival, and interface objects. Use when a draft moves from quotation directly to theme, when theory substitutes for attention, or when a single local feature is made to represent an entire period or culture.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 287 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A cc8cf069c13c
performing-close-reading is a skill published in the GitHub repository icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers (16 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,288 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 2026-08-30.
Other skills, from other repositories
compare-masters
A comparison skill that explains how different Buddhist teachers or traditions answer the same question.
master-buddhaghosa
A reference skill for answering questions about Theravāda Buddhism, a Buddhist tradition that preserves teachings in the Pali language, with a focus on the writings of Buddhaghosa, a fifth-century scholar.
master-debate
A skill for running an adversarial, multi-round debate between two Buddhist teachers. It is designed for questions where the teachers argue from different positions.
master-mahasi-sayadaw
A reference skill for answering questions about Mahāsi Sayādaw, a Burmese teacher of insight meditation. It explains noting practice, mindfulness, meditation progress, and dealing with distraction.
master-tsongkhapa
A reference-based assistant for questions about Tsongkhapa and the Gelug school, a Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It uses selected Buddhist texts and can answer in Tsongkhapa’s historical teaching style.
master-ajahn-chah
A reference-based assistant for Theravada Buddhism, an early Buddhist tradition, and the Thai Forest meditation tradition. It can answer in Ajahn Chah’s teaching style using selected teachings and Buddhist scriptures.