Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-solicited-advice-disciplinegit 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-solicited-advice-discipline)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-solicited-advice-discipline"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-solicited-advice-discipline/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-solicited-advice-discipline"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-solicited-advice-discipline.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 | $0.00075 | $0.02155 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00037 | $0.01077 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00431 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00215 |
Grade A, and why
apply-solicited-advice-discipline 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 — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Apply Solicited Advice Discipline
Answer exactly the scope of what was asked, and don't volunteer advice, opinion, or evaluation nobody requested — because unsolicited or over-scoped advice is systematically discounted by the recipient and can generate resentment, independent of how good the advice actually is.
Why This Is Best Practice
荀子 (Xunzi), 勸學篇 (Encouraging Learning, ~3rd century BC):
故不問而告謂之傲，問一而告二謂之囋。
"To tell someone something without being asked is called arrogance; to answer more than what was asked is called being garrulous." The principle names two specific, distinct failure modes in advice-giving: volunteering advice or judgment that wasn't requested at all, and — even when a question genuinely was asked — answering with more scope than the question called for. Both are treated as overreach, regardless of whether the content of the advice is correct or valuable.
Why best: This is not a claim that advice is unwelcome in general — it is a specific, mechanism-level claim about scope and consent: advice delivered outside the scope the recipient actually asked for is processed by the recipient as a status move (the advisor asserting they know better, unprompted) rather than as pure information, which triggers discounting or resistance independent of the advice's actual quality. Advice delivered within the exact scope requested is processed as a direct answer to a request, which the recipient weights far more heavily in their own decision-making. The correction is procedural — match the scope of the answer to the scope of the question, and ask permission before expanding beyond it — not a judgment about whether the advice itself is good.
Bonaccio & Dalal (2006): An integrative review of advice-taking and decision-making research across organizational and clinical contexts, finding a consistent pattern of "advice discounting" — recipients systematically weight received advice less heavily than the advice's objective quality would justify, and this discounting is measurably worse for advice that was not requested by the recipient, compared to advice given in direct response to an explicit request for it.
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 · 73 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A fb341e51d3c2
apply-solicited-advice-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,155 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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