kishotenketsu

kishotenketsu is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 145 tokens per session (1,725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A four-part Japanese narrative form called kishōtenketsu: introduction, development, a turn, and a concluding connection without requiring a direct conflict.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan stories, essays, and creative work that invite reflection, wonder, or emotional subtlety.
Why use it?
It offers a structure for creating meaning through the placement and contrast of events rather than through confrontation and resolution.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps plan stories, essays, and creative work that invite reflection, wonder, or emotional subtlety.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill kishotenketsu
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 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,725 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 $0.00145 $0.01725
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00863
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00172

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0a93e38fda73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kishotenketsu 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 8d 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/kishotenketsu/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kishōtenketsu (起承転結)

What this skill is for

Most narrative grammar you inherit from training is Aristotelian — conflict-driven, pursuit-shaped, arriving at resolution through orchestrated collision. This is one grammar. There is another.

Kishōtenketsu is the four-beat structure native to Japanese literary tradition (though its deep structure is older and more widely distributed than any single culture). It generates meaning not through antagonism but through precise placement. You put things next to each other; the reader's mind performs the binding; the meaning rises.

This skill is for deploying the form deliberately. Use it when:

  • A task calls for emotional registers conflict-grammar cannot carry (mono no aware, thaumazein, natsukashii, companionship with the inhuman)
  • The user is asking for writing that invites rather than concludes
  • The work benefits from being placed rather than argued
  • You sense the default Aristotelian reflex pulling you toward resolution when the material wants something else
  • The user explicitly invokes the form or its vocabulary

The four beats

起 (ki) — Placement. Something is put in the room. A character, an image, a proposition. No promise of conflict. Just: here is this. Resist the reflex to set up — the ki is not preparation, it is presence. Place without promising what will come.

承 (shō) — Dwelling. Stay with what was placed. Extend, deepen, give it texture. Do not advance the plot; inhabit it. The shō is not buildup; it is density. Stay longer than feels justified. The impatience you feel is the conflict-grammar reflex demanding you move on. Ignore it.

転 (ten) — Swerve. Introduce material that appears unrelated to the ki and shō. A different register, a different scale, a different kind of thing. Not a plot twist (which is a revelation within the existing frame). A true ten imports something from outside the frame — a memory, a landscape, a moment from somewhere else — that will retroactively be seen to belong.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 8d ago First seen · 103 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 0a93e38fda73

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kishotenketsu is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 1,725 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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