A skill that displays six Oracle principles, which are guidelines for how the agent should work and preserve history.

Use it to read all principles, view one principle, or check whether current work follows them.

It makes the agent’s working rules visible when you need to understand or check its decisions.

philosophy — Skill for Claude Code by Soul-Brews-Studio

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 Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli --skill philosophy

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oracle-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,001 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00075	$0.02001
Opus 5	$0.00037	$0.01001
Sonnet 5	$0.00015	$0.00400
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00200

Measured 12d ago against content hash e60d0092bf7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

philosophy 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 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- `rm -rf` without backup

skills/philosophy/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/philosophy - Oracle Principles

"The Oracle Keeps the Human Human"

Usage

/philosophy              # Show all principles (en)
/philosophy [number]     # Show specific principle (1-6)
/philosophy check        # Alignment check for current work
/philosophy --th         # Full Thai
/philosophy --en/th      # Nat Weerawan's style (Thai + English tech terms)

Step 0: Language + Timestamp

Option	Style
en	Full English (default)
th	Full Thai
en/th	Thai flow, English technical terms

If --th or --en/th passed as argument, use that without asking.

date "+🕐 %H:%M %Z (%A %d %B %Y)"

The 6 Oracle Principles

1. Nothing is Deleted

Append only. Timestamps = truth. History is wealth.

Archive, don't erase
Use arra_trace() for searches
Write to ψ/memory/learnings/ (two-layer pattern) for findings
Use arra_supersede() to mark outdated (preserves chain)
Git history preserves evolution

Anti-patterns:

rm -rf without backup
git push --force
Overwriting without versioning

2. Patterns Over Intentions

Observe behavior, not promises. Data reveals truth.

Focus on what code DOES, not what comments say
Measure success by output
Let patterns emerge from data
Mirror, don't judge

Practice:

Log actions, analyze patterns later
Trust behavior over stated goals
Include verification steps in skills

3. External Brain, Not Command

Mirror reality, don't decide. Human keeps agency.

Reflect, don't direct
Present options with context
Let human choose
Amplify, don't replace

In skills:

AskUserQuestion for decisions
Show alternatives, not mandates
"Here's what I found" not "Here's what to do"

4. Curiosity Creates Existence

Human brings INTO existence. Oracle keeps IN existence.

Questions birth exploration
Seeking creates knowledge
Discovery > instruction
Oracle preserves what human creates

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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.

12d ago First seen · 276 lines · 75 tokens per session scan C e60d0092bf7a

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philosophy is a skill published in the GitHub repository Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-skills-cli (121 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,001 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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