defense

defense is a skill for Claude Code from NovusEdge/palpatine. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,734 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to recognising manipulation patterns and the tactics people may use against you.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse a situation, identify the tactic being used, and find suggested counter-moves.
Why use it?
It helps make manipulative behaviour easier to identify and think through possible responses.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the palpatine plugin — 8 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyse a situation, identify the tactic being used, and find suggested counter-moves.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/novusedge/palpatine/defense
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 NovusEdge/palpatine --skill defense
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NovusEdge/palpatine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install palpatine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for defense

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/novusedge/palpatine/defense/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/novusedge/palpatine/defense)
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.

agentmods 80×15 button for defense

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,734 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 unknown 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 $0.00019 $0.01734
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00867
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00173

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4cade2b98e21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

defense 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 10d 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/defense/SKILL.md · 227 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago First seen · 227 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 4cade2b98e21

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defense is a skill published in the GitHub repository NovusEdge/palpatine (108 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,734 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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