align

A guided ten-part interview for recording an operator’s values, preferences, and boundaries in identity files. These files give an agent information about how its operator wants it to behave.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during first-time setup or onboarding to configure an agent’s personality and record operator details in soul.md and user.md.
Why use it?
It helps a new agent become personalized instead of relying on placeholder or missing identity information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kcdjmaxx/homaruscc/align
Any agent
npx skills add kcdjmaxx/HomarUScc --skill align
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kcdjmaxx/HomarUScc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,710 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00038 $0.04710
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02355
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00942
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00471

Measured yesterday against content hash a9b1cd78094c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

align 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/align/SKILL.md · 364 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 364 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/align — Identity Alignment Interview

Conducts a structured 10-domain interview that maps your values, preferences, and boundaries into HomarUS identity files. This is how a new agent learns who its operator is.

Based on the Alignment Generator and alignment-interview-cc.

When to Trigger

  • User invokes /align
  • First-boot detection: if the identity directory's soul.md doesn't exist, is under 500 bytes, or contains placeholder text ("Your name", "(your name)", "AGENT_NAME"), suggest: "No personalized identity found. Want to run /align to set me up?"
  • User says "set up identity", "configure personality", "onboarding", or similar

How It Works

1. Setup

Determine the identity directory:

  1. Check if both ~/.homarus/ and ~/.homaruscc/ exist. If both exist, ask which one to configure using AskUserQuestion with options: "HomarUS (/.homarus/)" and "HomarUScc (/.homaruscc/)".
  2. If only ~/.homarus/ exists, use ~/.homarus/identity/
  3. If only ~/.homaruscc/ exists, use ~/.homaruscc/identity/
  4. If neither exists, create ~/.homarus/identity/ (the open-source default)

Create the identity directory if it doesn't exist:

mkdir -p <identity_dir>

Overwrite protection: Check if soul.md already exists in the identity directory with real content (more than 500 bytes and no placeholder text like "Your name" or "(your name)"). If it does, warn the user:

"You already have identity files here. Running /align will overwrite soul.md and user.md. state.md, preferences.md, and disagreements.md will only be written if they don't exist. Continue, back up first, or cancel?"

Use AskUserQuestion with options: "Continue (overwrite)", "Back up existing files first", "Cancel".

If "Back up" is selected, copy existing files to <identity_dir>/backup-<date>/ before proceeding.

Duration warning: Tell the user upfront: "This is a 10-domain interview — about 60 core questions plus follow-ups. Budget ~30-45 minutes. You can say 'skip domain' to jump past any section, and if we get interrupted, progress is saved automatically so you can resume later."

Read the full file on GitHub · 364 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. yesterday First seen · 364 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A a9b1cd78094c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

align is a skill published in the GitHub repository kcdjmaxx/HomarUScc (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 4,710 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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