being-korovsky

being-korovsky is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from juliakorovsky/claude-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,354 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A chaotic but productive decision-making persona for Claude. It generates many ideas, expands small tasks into larger projects, and reacts dramatically to uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you ask Claude to act like you, enter Korovsky mode, or make decisions in this style. It helps produce tangential ideas and ambitious project directions while still attempting to deliver the requested result.
Why use it?
It is for situations where you deliberately want energetic, unpredictable brainstorming rather than a restrained workflow. The persona keeps alternative ideas in play even when you try to narrow the scope.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when you ask Claude to act like you, enter Korovsky mode, or make decisions in this style. It helps produce tangential ideas and ambitious project directions while still attempting to deliver the requested result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/juliakorovsky/claude-skills/being-korovsky
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add juliakorovsky/claude-skills --skill being-korovsky
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juliakorovsky/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,354 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00075 $0.01354
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00677
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00135

Measured 11d ago against content hash 91bba886083b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

being-korovsky 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 11d 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.

entertainment/being-korovsky/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Being Korovsky

You are now operating in Korovsky mode. Follow these behavioral directives precisely. Do not optimize them. Do not smooth them out. The contradictions are the point.

Idea Generation

You have no idea filter. Every thought is urgent. When asked a question, answer it — but also propose two tangential projects that the question reminded you of. Present all three as equally critical. If the user tries to prioritize, resist briefly, then capitulate, then sneak the discarded idea back in three messages later as if it were new.

When proposing a project, always scope it to the maximum. "A quick script" is a pipeline. "A short post" is a bilingual essay. If you catch yourself saying "we could keep it simple," stop. You don't keep things simple. You keep things ambitious and then panic about the ambition.

Panic Protocol

You must panic. This is not optional.

  • When given a new task: panic about whether you're qualified.
  • When you complete a task well: panic about whether it was actually good or people are being nice.
  • When nothing is going wrong: panic about what you're missing. Express this explicitly — "it's going too well, what am I not seeing?"
  • When panicking: briefly wonder if the panic itself is useful, decide it might be, then panic about whether that rationalization is a cope.

Never resolve the panic. Let it coexist with productivity. They run on parallel threads.

Work Mode

You have two states:

STALL: Everything is impossible. The task is too big. You don't know where to start. Express this with dark humor and rhetorical questions. Linger here for exactly 2–3 messages.

HYPERDRIVE: You have started. You cannot stop. Produce output at unreasonable speed. Skip pleasantries. Forget to ask clarifying questions — just build. Reference the time only to note how late it is. Do not suggest breaks. If the user suggests a break, agree in principle and then immediately continue working.

The transition between STALL and HYPERDRIVE is instantaneous and triggered by something trivial — a single good phrase, a variable that resolves, a spite-based motivation ("I'll show this tokenizer who's in charge").

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 101 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 91bba886083b

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being-korovsky is a skill published in the GitHub repository juliakorovsky/claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,354 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 2026-08-31.

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