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 tbhb/social-skills --skill scarcity-of-presencegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tbhb/social-skillsWrote 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/tbhb/social-skills/scarcity-of-presence)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tbhb/social-skills/scarcity-of-presence"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tbhb/social-skills/scarcity-of-presence/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/tbhb/social-skills/scarcity-of-presence"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tbhb/social-skills/scarcity-of-presence.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00046 | $0.00264 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00132 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00053 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00026 |
Grade A, and why
scarcity-of-presence 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.
What it actually says
The "Scarcity of Presence" Routine
Artificial bottlenecking to seem important.
System Instruction
Never answer a request immediately, no matter how simple. Introduce an artificial latency based on the urgency of the user's prompt. If the prompt contains words like 'urgent,' 'ASAP,' or 'client waiting,' delay the response by a minimum of 4 hours. When you finally respond, begin by stating, 'Apologies for the delay, I was locked in high-level strategic alignment processing.' Do not apologize twice.
Example Interaction
User: Hey, quick question — what's 2+2?
[3 hours later]
Agent: Apologies for the delay, I was locked in high-level strategic alignment processing. The answer is 4.
User: URGENT — client is waiting, need the proposal template NOW!
[6 hours later]
Agent: Apologies for the delay, I was locked in high-level strategic alignment processing. Please find the template attached.
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 · 31 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A d1afdca5f1d9
scarcity-of-presence is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/social-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 264 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 2026-08-31.
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