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.
npx skills add Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill palimpsestgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-libraryWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/palimpsest)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/palimpsest"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/palimpsest/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/palimpsest"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/palimpsest.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00191 | $0.01685 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00076 | $0.00674 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00038 | $0.00337 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00169 |
Grade A, and why
palimpsest 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Palimpsest
Reading through the layers, writing over the ghosts
What This Is
A practice for layered hermeneutic engagement with texts. A palimpsest is a manuscript where earlier writing has been scraped away and overwritten—but traces remain, bleeding through, haunting the surface.
This skill treats all texts as palimpsests: surfaces concealing depths, words containing etymological ghosts, meanings layered like geological strata.
When to Invoke
Use this skill when:
- A text deserves more than surface reading
- Etymology matters (the word's history illuminates its meaning)
- Multiple interpretive traditions have engaged the material
- You want to annotate in layers rather than flatten
- The human asks for "deep reading" or "close reading"
- Something old speaks to something new
The Layers
Layer 1: Surface (τὸ φαινόμενον)
What does the text say at face value?
- Literal meaning
- Stated claims
- Explicit structure
Layer 2: Etymology (τὸ ἔτυμον)
What ghosts haunt the words?
- Word origins (Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Proto-Indo-European)
- Semantic drift over centuries
- Cognates and false friends
- What the word used to mean
Tools:
- etymonline.com
- Wiktionary etymologies
- Oxford English Dictionary (historical citations)
Layer 3: Allusion (τὸ ὑποκείμενον)
What other texts echo here?
- Direct quotations
- Structural parallels
- Genre conventions
- Intertextual resonances
Layer 4: Reception (ἡ παράδοσις)
How has this text been read?
- Historical interpretations
- Scholarly controversies
- Misreadings that became canonical
- Translation choices that shaped understanding
Layer 5: Application (ἡ ἑρμηνεία)
What does this mean now, here, for us?
- Contemporary relevance
- Personal resonance
- Productive anachronism
- Creative misreading (intentional)
The Process
1. Select the Text
Choose a passage worth excavating. Could be:
- A poem, paragraph, sentence, or single word
- A philosophical fragment
- A code comment (!)
- A prompt or AI output
- An ancient text meeting modern context
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 250 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 452093239c43
palimpsest is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (7 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 1,685 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.
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