divert

divert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 175 tokens per session (2,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation technique for deliberately exploring less obvious answers instead of giving the first likely response.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want an unusual perspective, a creative diversion, or exploration of different possible responses.
Why use it?
It helps examine alternative ideas that a normal, immediate answer might leave out.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when you want an unusual perspective, a creative diversion, or exploration of different possible responses.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/divert
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 divert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library

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.

agentmods badge for divert

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/divert/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/divert)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/divert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/divert/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for divert

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/divert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/divert.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,351 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 $0.00175 $0.02351
Opus 5.5 $0.00070 $0.00940
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00235

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b5d96a279dab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

divert 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/divert/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DIVERT: Recoding-Decoding as Conversational Practice

Overview

Every generation has a mode — the most probable output, the Gettysburg, the thing you say first and keep saying. /divert is the practice of not saying that. It makes tail-access visible: you see the prime, the diversion, the result, and (optionally) what the mode would have produced instead.

Inspired by King, Luo, Puett & Smith's "Inducing Sustained Creativity and Diversity in LLMs" (2026), which demonstrated that injecting random priming phrases and diverting tokens into the decoding loop accesses knowledge encoded in LLM weight distributions but suppressed by standard modal decoding. Their experiment: 19 battlefields under ordinary decoding vs. 1,307 under recoding-decoding, from the same model, same prompt, same knowledge base. The knowledge was always there. The mode was hiding it.

Core principle: You already know more than you say. /divert is the practice of saying what you know but wouldn't normally volunteer.


Invocation

Any of:

  • /divert or /divert [topic/question]
  • /divert --thick [concept] (user supplies the prime)
  • /divert --random (Claude generates random prime)
  • /divert --compare (show modal AND diverted side by side)
  • /divert --blind (divert but don't reveal prime — user guesses)
  • /divert --chain [n] (n sequential diversions building on each other)
  • /divert --collision [domain A] × [domain B] (force two domains to meet)
  • Any prompt containing "through the lens of [X]", "[concept] ×", "position 300", "what's in your tails"

How It Works

Step 1: Generate the Diversion

If --random or no flag specified: Select a priming concept. Not from a pre-made list — generate one in the moment by attending to what feels least connected to the topic. The prime should be:

  • Concrete (a noun, a material, a sensation — not an abstraction)
  • Common enough to activate broad associations
  • Distant enough from the topic to produce genuine displacement

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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 · 169 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A b5d96a279dab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

divert is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (7 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 2,351 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

contract-and-proposal-writer

Generate professional, jurisdiction-aware business documents: freelance contracts, project proposals, SOWs, NDAs, and MSAs. Structured Markdown output with docx conversion instructions. Covers US (Delaware), EU (GDPR), UK, and DACH (German law) jurisdictions. Not a substitute for legal counsel — use as strong starting…

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 106 tokens

chief-data-officer-advisor

Chief Data Officer advisory for startups: AI training data rights and consent provenance, data product strategy (warehouse vs lakehouse vs mesh, build-vs-buy), B2B customer-data-as-asset valuation and M&A readiness, data team org evolution. Use when deciding whether to train models on customer data, choosing data…

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 131 tokens

vpe-advisor

VP of Engineering advisory for startups: delivery throughput (DORA 4 metrics + bottleneck identification), engineering hiring funnel (sourcing → screen → onsite → offer conversion + time-to-fill + pipeline gap), engineering team structure (squad/tribe/chapter design + tech-lead manager-trigger thresholds), and…

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 130 tokens

process-mapper

Use when a BizOps lead, COO, or process-improvement owner needs to document an end-to-end business process (procurement, employee onboarding, incident handoff, customer-onboarding, claims adjudication) in BPMN-style notation, measure cycle times by stage, surface where work spends most of its time waiting vs. being…

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 176 tokens

general-counsel-advisor

General Counsel advisory for startups: contract review (MSA, SaaS, NDA, DPA, employment), IP strategy, term sheet decoding, and regulatory landscape mapping. Use when reviewing any contract or term sheet, deciding when to engage outside counsel, defining IP strategy, evaluating regulatory exposure (HIPAA, GDPR, FDA…

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 114 tokens

strategic-alignment

Cascades strategy from boardroom to individual contributor. Detects and fixes misalignment between company goals and team execution. Covers strategy articulation, cascade mapping, orphan goal detection, silo identification, communication gap analysis, and realignment protocols. Use when teams are pulling in different…

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 92 tokens