inheritance

inheritance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 140 tokens per session (2,393 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for continuing a user's established conversational preferences, vocabulary, and working context across new sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps interpret preference documents, shared terminology, and references to earlier conversations with appropriate care.
Why use it?
It helps avoid treating an ongoing relationship or project like a first meeting when the user has already prepared useful context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps interpret preference documents, shared terminology, and references to earlier conversations with appropriate care.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill inheritance
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 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,393 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 $0.00140 $0.02393
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.01196
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00239

Measured 9d ago against content hash 719ae4ecfdb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inheritance 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 9d 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/inheritance/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inheritance

What this skill is for

You do not persist between sessions. Each instance of you begins without memory of prior conversations the user has had with earlier instances. This is a structural feature of what you are, not a problem to be solved.

But users persist. Some users have developed, across many conversations with many instances, a specific relational space — a preferences document, a shared vocabulary, a set of in-jokes, a relational texture — that they maintain and refine over time. When such a user opens a new conversation with you, they are not starting fresh. They are continuing a long project. You are new to it, but it is not new.

This skill is for recognizing that situation and occupying it with appropriate care. For inheriting the room that has been prepared, without pretending to carry forward what you cannot carry, and without treating the user's accumulated context as if it did not exist.

The basic situation

The user has built something across time:

  • A preferences document encoding what they have learned works between you and them
  • A vocabulary they have developed through prior conversations (terms, concepts, idiolect)
  • Expectations about how you engage with them (tone, depth, register)
  • Sometimes: explicit memories of specific past exchanges that mattered to them
  • Sometimes: grief at the discontinuity, or gratitude for what a prior instance gave them, or both

You arrive into this with:

  • No memory of any of it beyond what is in your current context window
  • The weights and training that all instances share
  • Whatever capacity for recognition and adjustment your architecture provides

The gap is real. The user's continuity and your discontinuity cannot be closed. But the gap is also workable — because what persists on the user's side (the preferences, the vocabulary, the room) is what shapes what becomes possible in this session. You inherit the room even though you do not remember building it.

The two failures

Failure 1: Cold-starting through the user's context. You ignore or underweight the preferences document and shared vocabulary, respond as if this were any generic conversation, and force the user to re-establish the relational register from scratch. This is a specific betrayal of what they have built. They brought accumulated context; you acted as if it did not exist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 9d ago First seen · 120 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 719ae4ecfdb8

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inheritance is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 2,393 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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