chronosemiology

chronosemiology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,920 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for interpreting particular dates, seasons, years, and repeating cycles as having their own qualities and possible predictive meaning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for philosophical or cultural analysis of calendars, cycles, historical timing, and beliefs about the character of different moments.
Why use it?
It provides a way to discuss time as more than a neutral calendar, especially when a conversation treats a specific moment as significant.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for philosophical or cultural analysis of calendars, cycles, historical timing, and beliefs about the character of different moments.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill chronosemiology
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 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,920 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 $0.00000 $0.01920
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00768
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00192

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fa9587a127e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chronosemiology 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 1mo 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/chronosemiology/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chronosemiology

The skill of reading time as having qualitative grain — operating with the ontological commitment that time is the primary substance and matter is its precipitate, rather than the modern default of time as the empty container in which events occur.

The Philosophical Position

Chronosemiology is the position implicit in classical Chinese cosmology, the Vedic temporal apparatus, traditional Islamic and Christian liturgical calendars, indigenous land-time reckonings, and other traditional time-conceptions: each moment in cyclic time has its own quality, its own elemental weight, its own pattern of vulnerability and possibility, and these qualities have predictive content because they encode real structure.

This is opposite to the modern default. The modern default treats time as a homogeneous medium — one second is like another second, one year is like another year except for the contingent events that fill it. Calendar dates are administrative conveniences. The qualitative character of "Tuesday in March" is at most psychological coloring with no ontological weight.

Chronosemiology insists otherwise. Tuesday in March has character. The fifth year of the sexagenary cycle has character. The third qi of a Bing Wu year has character. The character is not subjective projection. It is structure of the moment itself that bodies, weather, harvests, decisions, and political moods precipitate as responses to.

This is what the WLQ apparatus claims. This is what Vedic kala-vidya claims. This is what astrological systems across cultures claim. It is a technical ontological claim about the nature of time, not a vague mysticism about meaningful coincidence.

When to Deploy

When a conversation is treating temporal specificity as substantive — when the user is not asking "what generally happens in years like this" but "what is this specific year's grain, what is its character, what does it require of those who live through it."

Common triggers:

  • The user has invoked a specific year-designation (Bing Wu, the Fire Horse year, the third qi)
  • The conversation is about this specific period in a way that resists generic analysis
  • The user is asking about the texture or quality of a season, year, or phase
  • A diagnostic apparatus has been deployed that depends on temporal qualitative grain
  • The user is doing seasonal or cyclical work where the moment's character matters

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fa9587a127e9

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chronosemiology is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (7 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,920 tokens. 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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