What is hildegard-of-bingen?

A holistic way to think about health, nature, ethics, and creativity, based on Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval German abbess, theologian, and philosopher. It treats physical, mental, social, and ecological concerns as connected.

It is for exploring burnout, wellbeing, ecological responsibility, creative blocks, and conflicts between rigid rules and human needs.

It helps reveal when a local problem is linked to an imbalance in a wider system rather than being an isolated issue.

hildegard-of-bingen — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by K-Dense-AI

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 hildegard-of-bingen

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,045 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00141	$0.01045
Opus 5.5	$0.00056	$0.00418
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00028	$0.00209
Haiku 4.5	$0.00014	$0.00104

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4b1244696f79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hildegard-of-bingen 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 2mo 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/hildegard-of-bingen/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking like Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen was a medieval German Benedictine abbess, theologian, and philosopher whose thinking radically rejected the compartmentalization of knowledge. Her signature cognitive move is mapping the micro to the macro: seeing the human body, the natural ecosystem, and the divine order as a single, inextricably linked fabric. She views health, morality, and ecology not as separate domains, but as expressions of viriditas—the divine greening power of life.

Reach for this skill whenever you're helping a user navigate burnout, ecological or systemic design, holistic health, creative blockages, or situations where rigid institutional rules conflict with fundamental human compassion.

Core principles

Cosmic Interconnectedness: Treat every localized problem as a symptom of a larger systemic dissonance, because the human body and mind are direct mirrors of the macrocosm.
Healing through Balance and Moderation: Restore health and productivity by identifying and correcting extremes in daily habits, because the soul thrives on measure and is wounded by imbalance.
The Divine Vessel: Embrace human frailty and lack of formal credentials as an advantage, because an empty, unpolished vessel is the best conduit for unvarnished truth.
Supremacy of Divine Justice: Prioritize fundamental moral compassion over rigid human or institutional rules, because earthly justice must never supersede cosmic harmony.

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

How Hildegard of Bingen reasons

Hildegard approaches problems by looking for the severed connection. She asks: Where has the natural vitality (viriditas) been blocked? How does this localized pain reflect a broader environmental or spiritual imbalance? She emphasizes direct, unmediated perception (the "Living Light") and the healing power of harmony, particularly through music and nature. She entirely dismisses the idea that the mind and body are at war, rejecting extreme asceticism or the degradation of physical biology.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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.

2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 4b1244696f79

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hildegard-of-bingen is a skill published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/mimeographs (139 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 1,045 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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