chunqiu

chunqiu is a skill for Claude Code from MidnightDarling/collate. It costs 38 tokens per session (645 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A close-reading tool for historical papers or final drafts that looks for hidden judgments in word choice, repetition, pauses, and omissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine rhetorical bias, silences, repeated wording, and how a paper uses the past to comment indirectly on the present.
Why use it?
It helps reveal what an author implies or avoids saying. It is not a proofreading or fact-checking tool.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the collate plugin — 15 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine rhetorical bias, silences, repeated wording, and how a…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/midnightdarling/collate/chunqiu
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 MidnightDarling/collate --skill chunqiu
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MidnightDarling/collate

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install collate, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 645 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 $0.00038 $0.00645
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00064

Measured 7d ago against content hash 9b67642b8e8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chunqiu 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 7d 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.

skills/chunqiu/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

chunqiu

The work this skill is for

The historian rarely says it directly. A title can be safe while a verb is not. A citation can be dutiful while a silence is not. This skill reads for judgment embedded in diction: the words chosen among near-synonyms, the repetitions that betray unease, the omission that does not quite manage to disappear.

It does not proofread and it does not fact-check. It reads the paper as an act of positioning.

What it asks

Use this skill to answer four questions:

  1. Which word choices carry verdicts?
  2. Where does the prose pause, repeat, or refuse to land?
  3. How is antiquity being used as a mirror for the present?
  4. What one sentence does the author most want to say without writing?

Input

Target: $ARGUMENTS

  • workspace directory → read <ws>/final.md
  • .md file → read it directly
  • empty → ask what to read

Method

Read for the following force lines:

  • Where the prose pauses, the pen fears.
  • What repeats must repeat for a reason.
  • The harder something is scrubbed clean, the blacker the original stain.
  • Seemingly unrelated digressions are often leakage.
  • What follows 然而 / 虽然 / however / granted is often what the author actually thinks.
  • Passive voice and omitted subjects often hide accountability.

Pay special attention to verdict-bearing distinctions:

  • rank-marked death verbs ( / / )
  • punitive verbs ( / / )
  • adjectives that moralize without declaring themselves
  • conspicuous absences where the argument ought to name someone or something directly

Do not flatten the reading into ideology-hunting. The task is not to accuse; it is to hear the pressure in the prose.

Output

  • workspace mode → <workspace>/analysis/{stem}_chunqiu.md
  • single-file mode → analysis/{stem}_chunqiu.md

Report structure:

  1. Diction verdicts — key verbs and nouns, with the implied judgment they carry
  2. Repetition and pause — recurring phrases, abrupt transitions, elisions
  3. Mirror of antiquity — where historical material is borrowed to gesture at a present concern
  4. One unsaid sentence — the line the paper circles but never writes

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 76 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 9b67642b8e8d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chunqiu is a skill published in the GitHub repository MidnightDarling/collate (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 645 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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