Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-command-presencegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-coreWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-command-presence)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-command-presence"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-command-presence.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00052 | $0.01973 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00986 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00395 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00197 |
Grade A, and why
apply-command-presence 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 4d 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 — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Apply Command Presence
Project personal authority in a specific room or interaction through physical grounding, deliberate pacing, and controlled speech — before you say a word.
Why This Is Best Practice
Why best: Guiguzi (~4th century BC) formulated this as "分威" — distributing authority. His principle: "分威者，神之覆也，故静意固志，神归其舍" — when intent is stilled and will is anchored, authority settles in its seat and radiates outward. The mechanism is not aggression or volume but the opposite: deliberate stillness, controlled pace, and selective speech that signals a person who is not reacting but deciding. This principle recurs independently across modern evidence-based practice. Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee's "Primal Leadership" (2002) documented that the highest-authority person in a room emotionally "infects" the others — their composure, pace, and confidence propagate outward through emotional contagion. Cuddy's "Presence" (2015) demonstrated that expansive, grounded posture reliably alters both the perception of the person projecting it and their own hormonal state. US Army FM 6-22 (Army Leadership and the Profession) codifies command presence as one of the five components of a leader's presence — not a personality trait, but a practiced set of behaviors. FBI negotiators (Voss, 2016) use deliberate pacing and calm vocal register as behavioral authority signals that lower the emotional temperature of a room.
Distinct from apply-legitimacy-control: apply-legitimacy-control controls the institutional source of authority in a market — standards bodies, regulatory definitions, platform APIs. Structural, market-level, slow-moving. apply-command-presence projects personal authority in a specific interaction. Individual-level, behavioral, immediate.
Distinct from apply-five-commander-virtues: apply-five-commander-virtues is an assessment tool for evaluating whether a leader possesses the five Sun Tzu virtues (wisdom, credibility, humanity, courage, discipline). apply-command-presence is a behavioral practice for projecting authority in real-time — it does not assess, it acts.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 68 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A cbdf05107d54
apply-command-presence is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,973 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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