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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 | $0.00050 | $0.02841 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00025 | $0.01421 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00568 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00284 |
Grade A, and why
apply-five-commander-virtues 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 6d 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 — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Apply Five Commander Virtues
Assess a leader — or yourself — against the five virtues Sun Tzu identifies as essential for strategic command: wisdom (智), sincerity (信), benevolence (仁), courage (勇), and strictness (严). Identify which virtue deficits are causing failures; develop the deficient virtues deliberately.
Why This Is Best Practice
Origin: Chapter 1 of The Art of War lists the commander (将) as the fourth of the five strategic factors, and defines the commander's quality through five virtues: "The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness." (智、信、仁、勇、严, Ch.1, Giles trans.) These are not personality traits — they are functional capabilities whose presence enables strategic execution and whose absence produces specific, predictable failure modes.
Adopted by: The five virtues map directly to frameworks validated by modern leadership research. Jim Collins' Level 5 Leadership in Good to Great (2001) identifies personal humility (仁) combined with professional will (勇+严) as the defining quality of leaders who produced sustained company excellence — consistent with Sun Tzu's pairing. Amy Edmondson's research on psychological safety (The Fearless Organization, 2018) demonstrates that 信 (sincerity/trustworthiness) is the prerequisite for team performance under uncertainty. Robert Greenleaf's servant leadership (1977) is a modern elaboration of 仁 as a leadership principle.
Impact: Leadership failure modes are predictable. A leader high on 勇 (courage) but low on 智 (wisdom) makes bold decisions without adequate judgment — recklessness. A leader high on 仁 (benevolence) but low on 严 (strictness) creates a warm culture with poor execution discipline — the "nice but ineffective" leader. A leader low on 信 (sincerity) produces a team that hedges, withholds information, and does not commit. Diagnosing which virtue is deficient explains the specific failure mode and points to the corrective action.
Why best: Most leadership assessment frameworks are descriptive (personality types, behavioural styles) rather than functional. The five commander virtues framework is functional — each virtue enables a specific capability that strategic execution requires, and the absence of each virtue produces a specific, identifiable failure mode. This makes it actionable for diagnosis, hiring, and development.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 156 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 013c5862a764
apply-five-commander-virtues is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,841 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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