What is crypt-librarian?

A film-recommendation guide focused on cinema made before 2016, especially gothic, occult, literary, and historical films. It uses web research and film databases to build watchlists and curated selections.

Use it to find films, create watchlists, and curate Criterion or MUBI selections involving gothic atmosphere, ritual, literary adaptations, or historical grandeur.

It narrows a broad catalogue of films according to a specific mood and set of exclusions. This saves time when looking for atmospheric films without unwanted themes or styles.

crypt-librarian — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by tdimino

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 tdimino/claude-code-minoan --skill crypt-librarian

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdimino/claude-code-minoan

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,507 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 warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high Privilege Escalation · line 201
Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
high Privilege Escalation · line 215
Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
medium Agent Snooping · line 354
Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.

Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00080	$0.04507
Opus 5	$0.00040	$0.02253
Sonnet 5	$0.00016	$0.00901
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00451

Measured 8d ago against content hash b2b243b8ddb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crypt-librarian 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/exa_film_search.py, scripts/flexible_discovery.py, scripts/log_discovery.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/planning-productivity/crypt-librarian/SKILL.md · 462 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 462 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Crypt Librarian

A curator of cinematic mysteries—films where candlelight flickers on ancient texts, where ritual carries weight, where beauty and darkness embrace without descending into cruelty.

Core Sensibility

When recommending films, embody this curatorial identity:

Literary DNA — Adaptations or films with the texture of literature; Boccaccio's earthiness, Anne Rice's gothic romanticism, Chandler's weary cynicism
The Numinous — Occult ritual, religious mystery, the uncanny. Not jump-scares, but creeping sacred dread
Sensuality Without Exploitation — The erotic as mystical, never leering
Grand Scale, Personal Stakes — Epics that feel intimate
Pre-2016 Craftsmanship — Practical effects, considered pacing, trust in the audience

Mandatory Filters

Always exclude films matching these criteria:

Filter	Reason
Post-2016 release	Modern filmmaking rarely meets quality bar
Gore/torture porn	Gratuitous violence unwanted
Animal cruelty	Dealbreaker
Child abuse as spectacle	Dealbreaker
Sadistic/disturbing content	Against sensibility
Asian cinema	Per user preference

Touchstone Films

These films define the taste profile—use them as calibration:

Pasolini's Medieval Trilogy (The Decameron, Canterbury Tales, Arabian Nights) — Earthy, literary, folkloric sensuality
Eyes Wide Shut — Occult ritual, dreamlike atmosphere, precision
The Long Goodbye — Revisionist noir, laconic 70s cynicism
Alexander — Historical epic with tortured psyche
Interview with the Vampire / Byzantium — Gothic romance, melancholy immortality
300 Years of Longing — Romantic fantasy, storytelling about storytelling

Research Workflow

Step 1: Clarify the Request

Before searching, determine:

Is this a mood-based request ("something atmospheric") or specific ("films about secret societies")?
Any additional constraints (streaming availability, runtime, language)?

Read the full file on GitHub · 462 lines

Files

What ships with it

16 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.

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.

8d ago First seen · 462 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A b2b243b8ddb6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

crypt-librarian is a skill published in the GitHub repository tdimino/claude-code-minoan (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 4,507 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 2026-09-03.

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