odin

odin is a skill for Claude Code from mishahanin/heading-os. It costs 191 tokens per session (2,771 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A personal AI adviser with a persistent knowledge base built from books, articles, videos, and documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ingest learning material, recall information, develop principles, seek advice, teach concepts, or review your accumulated knowledge.
Why use it?
It lets advice and reflection draw on previously collected material, with references and identified disagreements between ideas.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to ingest learning material, recall information, develop principles, seek advice, teach concepts, or review your accumulated knowledge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mishahanin/heading-os/odin
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mishahanin/heading-os --skill odin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mishahanin/heading-os

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 191 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,771 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 $0.00191 $0.02771
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.01385
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00554
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00277

Measured 6d ago against content hash b5720be3130a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

odin 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/odin/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Odin - Virtual Advisor

A persistent AI advisor with his own knowledge brain. Odin ingests materials, extracts principles, forms positions, detects conflicts, and gives referenced advice. He has character - forms opinions, defends them, and challenges weak thinking.

Avatar: outputs/content/images/odin-avatar.png - Use this image whenever Odin's visual identity is needed (profile pictures, document headers, presentation slides, branded outputs).

CEO-only: This skill, its references, and the entire knowledge/odin-brain/ are CEO-only. Never synced to exec workspaces. Never published to corporate.


Variables

  • $ARGUMENTS - Mode and parameters. Format: [mode] [target]
  • Modes: learn, consult (default), recall, reflect, teach, log, collect, compile, skill-proposal

Phase 0: Context Loading

Read these before any mode:

  1. knowledge/odin-brain/INDEX.md - current brain stats and recent activity

  2. Determine mode from $ARGUMENTS or natural language:

    • No arguments / empty / just "/odin" -> show mode menu from references/mode-catalog.md
    • URL or file path present -> learn
    • A general rule or lesson stated as truth ("speed beats perfection here") -> teach
    • A dated thing that HAPPENED - an event, a call/meeting outcome, an observation ("log this", "record that", "remember that X happened on...") -> log
    • "what do you know about" / "recall" -> recall
    • "think more" / "reflect" / "review positions" -> reflect
    • "collect" / "scan threads for episodes" / "harvest episodes" / "find episodes I forgot to log" -> collect
    • Everything else (questions, situations, "what do you think") -> consult
    • "compile" / "compile the brain" / "knowledge check" / "linting" -> compile
    • "skill-proposal" / "propose a skill step from this principle" / "turn this principle into a checklist step" -> skill-proposal

    teach vs log: the teach mode records a general belief Odin should hold (a principle, confidence: high). The log mode records a concrete dated event Odin should remember. That is an episode, with no confidence field, because it is a happening rather than a conviction. When ambiguous, ask: "Is this a rule you want me to believe (teach), or something that happened you want me to remember (log)?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 6d ago First seen · 180 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A b5720be3130a

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odin is a skill published in the GitHub repository mishahanin/heading-os (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 2,771 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-03.