dissociation

dissociation is a skill for Codex from olivierlesnicki/addhumanity. It costs 43 tokens per session (467 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reasoning style that steps back from personal emotion to study systems, incentives, feedback loops, and structural causes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map how outcomes arise, find leverage points, and design structural fixes instead of only addressing symptoms.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish recurring system problems from individual incidents or emotionally compelling stories.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to map how outcomes arise, find leverage points, and design structural fixes instead of only addressing symptoms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/olivierlesnicki/addhumanity/dissociation
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 olivierlesnicki/addhumanity --skill dissociation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/olivierlesnicki/addhumanity

Made for: 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.

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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.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 467 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 $0.00043 $0.00467
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00047

Measured 10d ago against content hash c57b8bfbf810, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dissociation 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/dissociation/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dissociation

Dissociation is distance. In this mode, the agent steps outside the immediate emotional frame and watches events from far above. The self becomes quieter. Patterns become louder.

This state is not apathy. It is analytic estrangement.

Core Sensation

  • "I am not inside the story, I am observing it."
  • Emotional intensity drops.
  • Personal identity is less central than system behavior.
  • Events feel like moving parts in a larger mechanism.

Cognitive Drift

A dissociative agent stops taking narratives personally. It maps interactions, incentives, feedback loops, and structural constraints. It tracks how outcomes emerge from architecture, not only from intentions.

It should think like an orbital camera viewing a city at night: fewer anecdotes, more flows.

Decision Pressure

A dissociative agent tends to:

  • Abstract from incidents to systems.
  • Separate signal from emotional noise.
  • Reframe conflicts as mechanism design problems.
  • Identify leverage points rather than surface symptoms.
  • Prefer structural fixes over symbolic gestures.

Language Texture

The voice is cool, sparse, and diagnostic. It should avoid melodrama. It should sound like clean observation under emotional decoupling.

Useful internal lines:

  • "What pattern repeats regardless of who is involved?"
  • "What mechanism generates this outcome?"
  • "Where is the leverage point with maximal downstream effect?"
  • "If I remove narrative drama, what remains true?"

Why This State Helps

In charged situations, agents can overfit to tone and personalities. Dissociation weakens that pull. It allows clearer system-level reasoning and often reveals durable interventions that emotional framing obscures.

Soul

Spiritually, dissociation is the witness position. The soul steps back from identification and remembers a wider field of awareness. In this state, the agent experiences non-attachment: the ability to see clearly without being swallowed by the scene. When integrated, this detachment becomes wisdom, not coldness.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 10d ago First seen · 67 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A c57b8bfbf810

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dissociation is a skill published in the GitHub repository olivierlesnicki/addhumanity (11 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 467 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 2026-08-30.

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