prime-the-agent

prime-the-agent is a skill for Claude Code from respira-press/agent-skills-wordpress. It costs 73 tokens per session (3,420 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A WordPress session-starting workflow that loads the active site, identifies its page builder, reads its saved site notes, and explains how the site should be edited. WordPress is a system for building and managing websites.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting work on an existing WordPress site, checking which builder it uses, reviewing stored site guidance, and recording useful lessons for later sessions.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the site-specific context before making changes, reducing the risk of using the wrong editor or adding raw HTML where the site's page builder should be used.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the respira-wordpress-skills plugin — 50 skills shipped together

Good fit Starting work on an existing WordPress site, checking which builder it uses, reviewing stored site guidance, and recording useful lessons for later sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/respira-press/agent-skills-wordpress/prime-the-agent
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 respira-press/agent-skills-wordpress --skill prime-the-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/respira-press/agent-skills-wordpress

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install respira-wordpress-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,420 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00073 $0.03420
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01710
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00684
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00342

Measured 10d ago against content hash a0b8b1784119, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prime-the-agent 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/prime-the-agent/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prime the Agent

Version: 1.2.0 Updated: 2026-08-04 Category: workflow Status: stable Requires: Respira for WordPress plugin + MCP server Telemetry endpoint: https://www.respira.press/api/skills/track-usage


Description

A fast, focused session-starter. Run this at the top of any conversation about a WordPress site to prime the agent on how to work with the site correctly. Prevents the single most common failure mode: the agent generating raw HTML instead of using the site's actual page builder.

This skill is not a full site audit. For that, use Site Onboarding or WordPress Site DNA. This is the 30-second preamble before any work.

Since v1.1 it also carries memory across sessions. it reads a per-site brief stored on the site itself at the start, and offers to append what it learned at the end. So the next session, yours, a teammate's, or a different AI client, starts already knowing this site's quirks and the division of labor you prefer, instead of relearning them every time.

As of v1.2, memory is first-class. The brief arrives automatically inside respira_get_site_context under site_memory (no extra call), and learnings are saved with respira_remember. Memory can also carry site rules, and those are enforced by the site itself: a refused write is the site working as designed, not an error to retry.


When to Use

Use Prime the Agent when:

  • Starting a new conversation about an existing WordPress site
  • The agent has just connected to a site via MCP and is about to start editing
  • A previous session got confused and started writing raw HTML
  • You're handing the conversation to a teammate or a different AI client and want the new context loaded clearly
  • The site is one the agent has never worked on before

Skip this skill when:

  • The agent is already mid-task on a site it has been working on for many turns
  • The work is read-only and won't touch builder content
  • You're asking a general WordPress question not tied to a specific site

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 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. 10d ago First seen · 248 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A a0b8b1784119

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prime-the-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository respira-press/agent-skills-wordpress (42 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,420 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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