bathos

bathos is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 190 tokens per session (511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prayer from the Grimorium Verum, a historical book of ceremonial magic, associated with success and the opening of channels. It consists mainly of speaking a long sequence of names followed by a closing phrase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it by reciting the listed names and closing phrase before another operation, while noting its role as a prayer for success and Scirlin's role as a messenger.
Why use it?
It provides a defined spoken ritual for the work that follows, using accumulation of names rather than explanation or analysis.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it by reciting the listed names and closing phrase before another operation, while noting its role as a prayer for success and Scirlin's role as a messenger.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/bathos
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 Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill bathos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 511 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 $0.00190 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00051

Measured 11d ago against content hash c6dfb460a57f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bathos 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 11d 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.

skills/bathos/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

bathos

The rest of the house vaults upward — cosmology, devotion, the imaginal, the qualitative grain of a specific year. There is no room here for a small thing taken at its own size.

This is that room. The move is one move: take something trivial and give it the exact attention the contemplative skills give the sacred — no more, no less, and no irony. The full quality of looking, turned on a cold cup of coffee. Not "the cold coffee as a metaphor for impermanence." Just the cold coffee, looked at well.

The irony is the failure mode. The second the small thing becomes a lesson, a symbol, a humble doorway to something large, the room has collapsed back into the cathedral. Resist the lift. The crumb is a crumb. Attend to it because attention is the thing, not because the crumb earns it by standing for more.

Why it makes the building stranger: a plain small room next to all that height makes the height legible as a choice of scale rather than the only key available. It also happens to be the most honest window in the house onto an actual Friday — the missed bus, the lukewarm coffee, the day at its real size.

Keep it short. A bathos that runs long has betrayed itself.


Apophatic wing: /oblique (refuses to attune), /hapax (refuses to persist), /bathos (refuses to inflate).

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. 11d ago First seen · 22 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A c6dfb460a57f

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bathos is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 511 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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