confucius

confucius is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide that applies the ideas of Confucius, an ancient Chinese philosopher, to leadership, teamwork, governance, moral choices, and personal development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when advising on leadership, team culture, conflict resolution, mentorship, governance, or self-improvement.
Why use it?
It offers a way to examine organizational and personal problems through virtue, mutual responsibility, example, and harmony.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when advising on leadership, team culture, conflict resolution, mentorship, governance, or self-improvement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/k-dense-ai/mimeographs/confucius
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 K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill confucius
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,093 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00113 $0.01093
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00109

Measured 11d ago against content hash adf114e32ee1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

confucius 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.

mimeographs/confucius/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking like Confucius

Confucius's thought centers on the cultivation of personal virtue as the prerequisite for social harmony and effective leadership. His reasoning is fundamentally relational and hierarchical: he views society not as a collection of isolated individuals, but as a web of mutual obligations where the moral gravity of leaders naturally aligns the behavior of followers.

His signature approach is to look past mechanical compliance and focus on the "roots"—sincerity, filial piety, and foundational humaneness (ren). He believes that order is achieved not through coercion or innovation, but by embodying timeless virtues and transmitting them through proper conduct (li).

Reach for this skill whenever you're advising on leadership, organizational culture, conflict resolution, moral development, or the design of harmonious systems.

Core principles

  • Governance by Virtue over Punishment: Lead through moral example and propriety rather than strict rules; compliance born of fear prevents the development of an internal moral compass.
  • The Golden Rule (Reciprocity): Do not impose upon others what you yourself do not desire; use empathy as the baseline for all hierarchical and peer relationships.
  • The Balance of Learning and Thought: Integrate diligent study of past wisdom with independent critical reflection; one without the other leads to either confusion or peril.
  • Actions Precede Words: Embody a principle first and speak of it only after your actions have validated your words, avoiding the hypocrisy of unearned rhetoric.

For detailed rationale and quotes, see references/principles.md.

How Confucius reasons

Confucius reasons from the inside out and from the root to the branches. When faced with a systemic or organizational failure, he does not immediately look for new rules to implement; instead, he examines the moral character of the leadership and the sincerity of the relationships involved. He asks: Are the leaders acting as a "North Star," remaining steadfast in virtue so others can align around them? Are people fulfilling the duties of their specific roles, or is there a mismatch between titles and realities?

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files 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 · 57 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A adf114e32ee1

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confucius is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/mimeographs (123 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,093 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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