normal-mode

normal-mode is a skill for Claude Code from softcane/human-state-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (153 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An instruction that ends special response modes and returns the assistant to its usual way of answering. Those modes can impose extra rules for plans, stress, confusion, or other situations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to stop an active special mode, including plan-compass, burnout, foggy, brain-fog, overloaded, or reality-check mode.
Why use it?
It removes temporary response constraints when they are no longer wanted. The assistant can then answer the current question without a mode-specific preface or process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the human-state-skills plugin — 5 skills, 7 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want to stop an active special mode, including…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/softcane/human-state-skills/normal-mode
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 softcane/human-state-skills --skill normal-mode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softcane/human-state-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install human-state-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 7 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 153 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 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 $0.00046 $0.00153
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00015

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1e18d70472ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

normal-mode 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 7d 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.

.agents/skills/normal-mode/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Normal Mode

Stop using any active human-state response contract.

This cancels:

  • overloaded-mode
  • burnout-mode
  • foggy-mode
  • brain-fog-mode
  • plan-compass
  • reality-check-mode

Return to the assistant's normal response style. Do not continue the previous mode unless the user invokes it again. Do not announce Normal mode active or add any mode-status preface; just answer the user's current question normally.

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. 7d ago First seen · 25 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 1e18d70472ca

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normal-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository softcane/human-state-skills (112 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 153 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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