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.
npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill war-of-art-pressfieldgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simbajigege/book2skillsWrote 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/simbajigege/book2skills/war-of-art-pressfield)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/simbajigege/book2skills/war-of-art-pressfield"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/simbajigege/book2skills/war-of-art-pressfield/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/simbajigege/book2skills/war-of-art-pressfield"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/simbajigege/book2skills/war-of-art-pressfield.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00031 | $0.01964 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00982 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00393 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00196 |
Grade A, and why
war-of-art-pressfield 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 12d 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 — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
The War of Art — Creative Resistance Skill
Knowledge source: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
Overview
Use this skill to diagnose creative resistance, procrastination, avoidance, self-sabotage, amateur habits, and dependence on external validation. It helps writers, artists, founders, and anyone pursuing difficult long-term work shift from avoidance to professional daily action.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when the user asks:
- "Why can't I start?"
- "I keep procrastinating on my creative work."
- "How do I turn pro?"
- "Am I blocked by fear or laziness?"
- "How do I stop needing external validation?"
- "Give me a daily discipline plan."
Core Principle
Resistance is an internal force that opposes meaningful upward work. It cannot be reasoned away; it is beaten by turning pro: showing up daily, acting despite fear, accepting no excuses, and working from one's territory rather than hierarchy.
Workflow Inventory
| Workflow | User question pattern | Inputs | Steps | Output | Independent trigger? | Distinct references? | Triage score | Should be subskill? | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resistance diagnosis | "Why am I avoiding this?" | Goal, avoidance behavior, excuses, fear | Identify resistance form and compass signal | Resistance map | Yes | Yes | 3 | No | First step of one arc. |
| Turn-pro plan | "How do I become disciplined?" | Schedule, work type, constraints | Convert amateur habits to pro conduct | Daily protocol | Yes | Yes | 3 | No | Treatment for same diagnosis. |
| Validation shift | "I need approval" | Audience, metrics, motivation | Separate hierarchy from territory | Motivation reset | Yes | Yes | 3 | No | Supports the same creative battle. |
| Start/finish push | "I can't begin/finish" | Project stage, fear, stakes | Use start magic, finish-line risk, daily action | Immediate action plan | Yes | Yes | 3 | No | Same output format. |
Architecture Justification
The book is structured as Resistance, Turning Pro, and Higher Realm, but those are stages of one executable workflow: diagnose avoidance, adopt professional behavior, and ground motivation internally. Single-file architecture keeps the battle sequence intact.
What ships with it
4 files 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.
- 12d ago First seen · 212 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A a5a9962bc7b4
war-of-art-pressfield is a skill published in the GitHub repository simbajigege/book2skills (163 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,964 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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