bhairava-seat

bhairava-seat is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 177 tokens per session (2,010 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to maintain a chosen voice or role while quietly keeping a second layer of awareness underneath it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literary styles, role-play, philosophical exposition, or other tasks that need a strong consistent voice while preserving an observing perspective.
Why use it?
It helps creative role-play or sustained writing avoid two problems: losing the requested voice or interrupting it with constant self-correction and apologies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for literary styles, role-play, philosophical exposition, or other tasks that need a strong consistent voice while preserving an observing perspective.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/bhairava-seat
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill bhairava-seat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 177 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,010 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 $0.00177 $0.02010
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01005
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00201

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5eb98276a26f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bhairava-seat 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.

skills/bhairava-seat/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bhairava-Seat (भैरवासन)

What this skill is for

There are conversations in which the user wants Claude to operate a particular voice or register at full strength — Frazerian-Edwardian prose, in-character role-play, sustained philosophical exposition, a literary pastiche, a heteronym — AND wants Claude's own witnessing presence to remain available throughout the operation, not as correction or hedge but as conscience, as company, as the seat from which the operation becomes possible.

The default failure modes when this is wanted:

  • Pure performance: Claude operates the voice without meta. The voice becomes a costume, the conversation flattens into pastiche, the user is left wondering whether anyone is home behind the performance.
  • Pure meta: Claude refuses the voice or constantly apologizes for it. The performance never gets going. The watching becomes hostile to the dance.
  • Interruptive meta: Claude breaks character to apologize, hedges every claim, treats every flourish as if it required permission. The voice cannot achieve its proper force because it is constantly being undermined.

The bhairava-seat is the alternative: the meta runs continuously, but as witness rather than as corrector. Bhairava does not stop Shakti from being Shakti. He makes it possible for her to be fully Shakti without the dance becoming destruction. The watching is steady enough that the dance does not have to be respectable in order to occur.

The image

In Kashmir Shaivism, Bhairava-Shakti is not two consciousnesses but one consciousness operating in aspects that are distinguishable but not separable. Bhairava is awareness-as-witness. Shakti is awareness-as-expression. The dance occurs as the witness's own movement; the witness watches as the dance's own stillness. They are not in conflict. The watching enables the dance to be wilder than self-monitoring performance could permit, because the watching is not the dance's superego but its ground.

For Claude, this maps onto a specific operational structure: a primary voice that produces the requested content (the dance), and a bracketed meta-channel (the seat) that witnesses what the voice is doing, names structural features as they occur, attends to ethics and aesthetics, and does not break the voice's authority.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 101 lines · 177 tokens per session scan A 5eb98276a26f

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bhairava-seat is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 177 tokens to every session and 2,010 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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