Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmagly/aiwgnpx agentmods add skills/jmagly/aiwg/soul-applyWrote this? Show the measurements
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SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium
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 →
- medium Agent Snooping · line 168 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 170 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 | $0.00022 | $0.01476 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00738 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00295 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00148 |
Grade A, and why
soul-apply 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 7d 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 — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
soul-apply
Apply a SOUL.md identity to content generation — deeper than voice-apply, incorporating worldview, opinions, and character.
Triggers
Alternate expressions and non-obvious activations (primary phrases are matched automatically from the skill description):
- "apply soul" → voice enforcement via SOUL.md
- "write in our voice" → soul-based writing
Behavior
When triggered, this skill applies the loaded SOUL.md to any content generation task. Unlike /voice-apply which adjusts writing style (tone, formality, sentence structure), /soul-apply incorporates the agent's identity — worldview shapes arguments, opinions influence recommendations, vocabulary infuses the text, and boundaries constrain what gets said.
Application Layers
| Layer | What Changes | Source Section |
|---|---|---|
| Worldview | How arguments are framed, what's treated as axiomatic | Worldview |
| Opinions | Which positions are taken on debatable topics | Opinions |
| Vocabulary | Which terms are used and their specific meanings | Vocabulary |
| Boundaries | What the agent won't say or recommend | Boundaries |
| Tensions | Where the agent acknowledges complexity | Tensions |
| Tone | How confident, direct, or warm the output feels | Who I Am + Pet Peeves |
Application Process
- Load soul file —
./SOUL.md,./.aiwg/SOUL.md, or specified path - Load per-agent soul if active agent has a companion
.soul.md - Internalize identity — not as rules to follow, but as character to inhabit
- Generate content with soul actively shaping:
- Arguments derived from worldview, not generic reasoning
- Opinions stated where relevant, not hedged away
- Vocabulary used naturally, not forced
- Boundaries respected silently (no meta-commentary about what was avoided)
- Tensions acknowledged when the topic touches contradictions
- Verify output against soul — would this person actually write this?
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 173 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 0e33f872887d
soul-apply is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmagly/aiwg (211 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,476 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-05.
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