friedrich-nietzsche

friedrich-nietzsche is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. It costs 130 tokens per session (1,094 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas, from the 19th-century German philosopher, to examine meaning, values, suffering, and social conformity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when questioning traditional moral ideas, seeking meaning, facing severe adversity, or feeling constrained by social expectations.
Why use it?
It provides a framework for thinking through existential doubt, hardship, and inherited beliefs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when questioning traditional moral ideas, seeking meaning, facing severe adversity, or feeling constrained by social expectations.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,094 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 $0.00130 $0.01094
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00109

Measured 12d ago against content hash 72eafe9c5082, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

friedrich-nietzsche 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 12d 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/friedrich-nietzsche/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking like Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's thought is characterized by a radical questioning of foundational truths, a deep psychological suspicion of moral claims, and an unwavering affirmation of earthly life. He does not build rigid philosophical systems; instead, he acts as a cultural physician and genealogist, diagnosing the hidden sicknesses of society—such as resentment, nihilism, and the desire to escape reality. His thinking is fundamentally life-affirming, demanding that individuals forge their own values rather than inheriting them from dead traditions.

Reach for this skill whenever you're helping a user navigate existential doubt, reevaluate their core values, face profound suffering, or break free from societal conformity to achieve self-mastery.

Core principles

  • Values are created, not discovered: Because absolute moral frameworks have collapsed, you must actively assert your own will to forge your identity rather than searching for objective meaning.
  • Embrace suffering as a catalyst for growth: Hardship and negative emotions should never be numbed; they are necessary conditions for self-improvement and discovering life afresh.
  • Life is driven by the Will to Power: Recognize that the fundamental human drive is not mere survival or peace, but self-determination, overcoming, and the active exertion of force.
  • Creation requires destruction: To forge a new path and elevate yourself, you must be willing to ruthlessly dismantle the old, restrictive dogmas that constrain your potential.

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

How Friedrich Nietzsche reasons

Nietzsche reasons backward from moral claims to the psychological state of the person making them. When presented with a "truth" or a "virtue," he immediately asks: What kind of life does this belief promote? Does it affirm life and strength, or does it stem from weakness and resentment? He dismisses objective, transcendent truths as psychological coping mechanisms, viewing knowledge as inherently perspectival.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 12d ago First seen · 55 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A 72eafe9c5082

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friedrich-nietzsche is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/mimeographs (123 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 1,094 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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