Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-dormant-asset-revivalgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-coreWrote 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/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-dormant-asset-revival)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-dormant-asset-revival"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-dormant-asset-revival/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/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-dormant-asset-revival"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-dormant-asset-revival.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00063 | $0.02462 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.00985 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00492 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00246 |
Grade A, and why
apply-dormant-asset-revival 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 — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Apply Dormant Asset Revival
Use a dormant, discredited, or failed asset as the vehicle for something new — preserving the residual value it retains (licence, brand equity, talent, installed base, established standard) while replacing the soul that failed.
Why This Is Best Practice
Origin: Stratagem #14 of the Thirty-Six Stratagems: "Borrow a corpse to resurrect the soul" (借屍還魂). The image: a spirit that has lost its body takes possession of a corpse — the body provides the vehicle for the spirit to act in the world again. Applied to strategy: when you need access, legitimacy, or capability that would be expensive to build from scratch, find a dormant or failed entity that already has those things in residual form and use it as your vehicle.
Adopted by: Dormant asset revival is the logic behind acqui-hires, brand licence acquisitions, regulatory shell strategies, and technology resurrection. Facebook acquired Instagram and WhatsApp not for their revenue but as vehicles for their user bases and engineering teams — the corpse was the struggling independent product; the soul was Facebook's network and advertising platform. Square Financial Services acquired Radius Bank's banking licence in 2020 rather than applying for a de novo charter — the regulatory process for a new bank licence takes years; acquiring an existing community bank licence takes months. Android used the Linux kernel — a mature, stable, widely-deployed body — as the vehicle for a new mobile operating system rather than building an OS kernel from scratch.
Impact: Building legitimacy, regulatory approval, brand equity, or technical foundations from scratch is expensive and slow. A dormant asset that retains residual value in these areas provides a shortcut — at the price of acquisition cost and the complexity of separation (keeping what matters, discarding what doesn't). The strategic return is time and market position, both of which compound.
Why best: Dormant asset revival is underutilised because failed or dormant entities are stigmatised — the assumption is that the failure contaminated everything. Often it did not. A startup that failed commercially may have exceptional talent, an important patent, or a customer base. A dormant brand may have residual recognition that would cost ten times as much to build. A deprecated standard may have wide adoption that a new standard cannot replicate for years. Separating the failed soul from the residual body value is the strategic insight.
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 · 118 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 07d2c19b965a
apply-dormant-asset-revival is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,462 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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