What is random-history-anecdote?

A short, source-checked anecdote from ancient Chinese history, presented with its source, historical notes, original text, official titles, and meme suggestions.

It is for requests such as a random historical story or anecdote, with translations, source checking, explanations of historical offices, and image-meme captions.

It gives a compact historical story while separating documented facts from interpretation and adding context for old places, dates, and ranks.

random-history-anecdote — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by quzhi1

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 quzhi1/HistoryAgentSkills --skill random-history-anecdote

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/quzhi1/HistoryAgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/quzhi1/historyagentskills/random-history-anecdote/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/quzhi1/historyagentskills/random-history-anecdote)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/quzhi1/historyagentskills/random-history-anecdote"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/quzhi1/historyagentskills/random-history-anecdote/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/quzhi1/historyagentskills/random-history-anecdote"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/quzhi1/historyagentskills/random-history-anecdote.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 227 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 6,863 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00227	$0.06863
Opus 5.5	$0.00091	$0.02745
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00045	$0.01373
Haiku 4.5	$0.00023	$0.00686

Measured 16d ago against content hash e6d11156b716, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

random-history-anecdote 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 16d 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.

random-history-anecdote/SKILL.md · 285 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

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.

16d ago Changed · +20 lines e6d11156b716
1mo ago Changed · +1 lines ab16776d444e
1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 4534d2d65c59
1mo ago Changed · +14 lines · +27 tokens per session ef1051ffeccf
1mo ago Changed · +45 lines ada1789c6b7a
1mo ago Changed · -40 lines · -11 tokens per session e20ab93e4c3a
1mo ago Changed · +28 lines · +28 tokens per session 966174ada401
2mo ago Changed · +4 lines 716490ff1f9b
2mo ago First seen · 211 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A 00b05426105e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

random-history-anecdote is a skill published in the GitHub repository quzhi1/HistoryAgentSkills (10 stars, last pushed 8d ago), with no licence file. It adds 227 tokens to every session and 6,863 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Learning and teaching

random-history-anecdote next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
random-history-anecdotequzhi1/HistoryAgentSkills	Skill	10	8d ago	none	A	227	Claude Code, Codex
hr-onboardingnexu-io/open-design	Skill	106k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	62	Claude Code, Codex
book-mirrorgarrytan/gbrain	Skill	32k	yesterday	MIT	A	138	Claude Code
exam-forecastanthropics/claude-for-legal	Skill	9.9k	3d ago	Apache-2.0	A	73	Claude Code
lean-formalizewanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep	Skill	19k	3d ago	MIT	A	81	Claude Code
eli5companion-inc/feynman	Skill	10k	6d ago	MIT	A	63	Claude Code, Codex
deck-course-modulenexu-io/html-anything	Skill	9.4k	25d ago	Apache-2.0	A	25	Claude Code, Codex