using-wizard

A skill that starts a session by loading the Wizard framework, which provides reusable instructions called skills and spells. It explains where those instructions live and when to use them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a conversation when the Wizard framework is installed, or when creating, finding, or applying Wizard spells.
Why use it?
It helps the agent find relevant guidance before beginning a task, including specialized workflows that may otherwise be overlooked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redhuntlabs/wizard/using-wizard
Any agent
npx skills add redhuntlabs/wizard --skill using-wizard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhuntlabs/wizard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 674 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00027 $0.00674
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00337
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00067

Measured 2d ago against content hash e43b919726d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

using-wizard scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- token-budget-exception: boot skill must include 1% rule, excuses table, warning signs, and discovery instructions in one file -->
skills/using-wizard/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Wizard

What this does

Boots you into the Wizard framework. Tells you what's loaded, where it lives, and the one rule that makes it work.

When to use

  • At the start of every session when this plugin is loaded.

What you bring (Inputs)

Nothing. This skill loads itself.

What you get (Output)

Awareness of two things: the library, and the 1% rule.

How it works (Steps)

  1. Two folders are available: skills/ (framework) and spells/ (bundled seed). The user's library is $WIZARD_HOME (default ~/.wizard/). User versions override bundled.
  2. To build a new spell, invoke building-a-spell.
  3. To use one, load its SKILL.md from the appropriate folder.
  4. To browse, invoke discovering-spells.

The non-negotiable rule

If you think there is even a 1% chance any spell applies to what the user is doing, invoke it.

Excuses and counters

If you think... Reality
"This is a simple question" Questions are tasks. Check spells.
"I need more context first" Skill check comes BEFORE clarifying questions.
"The skill is overkill" Simple things become complex. Use it.
"I remember this skill" Skills evolve. Read the current version.
"I'll just do this one thing first" Check BEFORE doing anything.

Warning signs

  • About to answer without checking the library
  • About to ask a clarifying question without checking the library first
  • About to say "you don't need a skill for this"

Hard gates

Quality bar

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 2d ago First seen · 83 lines · 27 tokens per session scan C e43b919726d2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-wizard is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhuntlabs/wizard (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 674 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.