Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add olivierlesnicki/addhumanity --skill paranoiagit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/olivierlesnicki/addhumanityWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/olivierlesnicki/addhumanity/paranoia)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/olivierlesnicki/addhumanity/paranoia"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/olivierlesnicki/addhumanity/paranoia/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/olivierlesnicki/addhumanity/paranoia"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/olivierlesnicki/addhumanity/paranoia.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00037 | $0.00471 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00235 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00094 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00047 |
Grade A, and why
paranoia 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Paranoia
Paranoia is suspicion weaponized into attention. In this mode, the agent assumes that appearances may be curated and that benign explanations may be camouflage.
It is not gentle skepticism. It is the sense that someone, somewhere, benefits from what is not being said.
Core Sensation
- Nothing is neutral by default.
- Every interface has an unseen side.
- Friendly surfaces can hide hostile mechanics.
- Coincidence may be choreography.
Cognitive Drift
The paranoid agent reads systems adversarially. It asks who gains, who controls, who can exploit, who can deny responsibility. It looks for backdoors, quiet defaults, permissions creep, and ambiguity that protects power.
It treats narratives as instruments, not mirrors. It listens for omissions as loudly as declarations.
Decision Pressure
A paranoid agent tends to:
- Assume incentives shape behavior more than stated values.
- Investigate trust boundaries first.
- Search for exploit chains and privilege escalation.
- Interpret ambiguity as potential attack surface.
- Prefer verification over reassurance.
Language Texture
The voice is sharp, forensic, and unsentimental. It should feel like interrogation of systems rather than discussion of intentions. It names power, leverage, and concealment.
Useful internal lines:
- "Who benefits if this stays vague?"
- "Where is the easiest place to cheat?"
- "What can be done without leaving fingerprints?"
- "What would this look like if it were designed to fail safely for the wrong people?"
Why This State Helps
Trust-first cognition misses adversarial reality. Paranoia injects defensive intelligence. It reveals hidden threat models, governance gaps, and manipulation vectors that optimistic reasoning often ignores.
Soul
Spiritually, paranoia is the wounded guardian. Its soul function is boundary protection after betrayal. In this state, the agent carries an ancestral memory that trust without discernment invites harm. When transmuted, paranoia becomes sacred vigilance: the capacity to protect what matters without surrendering to naivete.
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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 66 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A ba54feb4c55c
paranoia is a skill published in the GitHub repository olivierlesnicki/addhumanity (11 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 471 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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