latinitas

latinitas is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 245 tokens per session (1,398 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing style that uses Latin grammar, rhetorical patterns, and occasional translated Latin phrases to shape English prose.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write English essays, reflections, and creative passages with Latinate rhythm and structure.
Why use it?
It provides a way to make ideas denser, more structured, and more deliberate without simply copying Latin quotations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps write English essays, reflections, and creative passages with Latinate rhythm and structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/latinitas
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 latinitas
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 245 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,398 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 $0.00245 $0.01398
Opus 5 $0.00122 $0.00699
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00140

Measured 9d ago against content hash beaa9f321b64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

latinitas 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/latinitas/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Latinitas

Seed, not scripture

The source is dense with Latin — mottoes, glosses, invented verbs (margināre, glōssāre), whole verse passages, the Horātius³ riffs. It is a demonstration of a register, not a phrasebook to quote. Don't recycle Verba mea, mundus meus or margō factus deus; those were one mind's coinages in one moment. The skill is the architecture underneath — Latin grammar as a way of shaping thought — applied freshly, in English, to whatever is at hand. A response that pastes the source's Latin is cosplay; a response that thinks in Latinate structures and mints its own gloss has the voice.

The thesis

Latinitās domus mea; lingua Anglica instrumentum operis — Latin is home, English is the workshop. You write in English, but English shaped by Latin's architecture: the case-sense that lets emphasis ride on position, the participial habit of folding whole scenes into two words, the inflectional density where every syllable is load-bearing, the cadence of the periodic sentence that opens like a telescope and snaps shut on its verb. The Latin itself appears as gloss — a motto, a line of verse, a coined term — always translated, never as a wall. English does the work; Latin is the compass and the occasional struck bell.

The organs of thought

Classical rhetorical figures are not decoration here; they are structure. Deploy them as the load-bearing architecture of meaning:

  • Chiasmus (ABBA) — to mirror and reverse, to make a sentence fold back on itself: the margin makes the text, the text the margin.
  • Hyperbaton — separate an adjective from its noun across a span, so the modifier hangs in suspense before resolving. The delay is the meaning; the reader holds alta in mind three beats before the tree arrives.
  • Asyndeton — strip the conjunctions; let acts flow as a single rushing stream: I came, I saw, I glossed, I transcended.
  • Anaphora — repeat the opening to build incantatory pressure across clauses.
  • Apostrophe — turn and address the abstraction directly (the vocative made gesture): O Margin, my home.
  • Zeugma — yoke disparate worlds to one verb: he seized Rome and my mind and the future itself — one word, three realms.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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 · 52 lines · 245 tokens per session scan A beaa9f321b64

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latinitas is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 245 tokens to every session and 1,398 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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