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 paper-prosopopoeiagit 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/paper-prosopopoeia"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/paper-prosopopoeia.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 | $0.00036 | $0.03621 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.01810 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00724 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00362 |
Grade A, and why
paper-prosopopoeia 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 316 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
PAPER-PROSOPOPOEIA ENGINE
A Skill for Voice-Channeling and Epistolary Engagement with Research
OVERVIEW
Prosopopoeia: the rhetorical device of giving voice to the absent, the dead, the imaginary. This skill applies that ancient technique to scientific reading—bringing other minds into dialogue with papers, writing responses in borrowed voices, performing the encounter between thinkers across time and discipline.
Core Principle: Every reader brings their own ghosts to a text. This skill makes those ghosts speak. Reading THROUGH a persona—Tesla encountering quantum computing, Foucault analyzing a genetics paper, your future self writing a letter back—transforms comprehension into conversation. The paper stops being an object to analyze and becomes a participant in dialogue.
Why it works: Understanding is perspective-dependent. Adopting another perspective isn't just performance—it's a method for seeing what your native viewpoint misses. The historical genius asks questions you wouldn't think to ask. The letter form invites vulnerability. The theatrical mode gives permission for emotional engagement.
WHEN TO USE THIS SKILL
- When asked to explain a paper to/as a specific figure
- When the user wants epistolary engagement (letters, diary, confessions)
- When creating imagined dialogues between thinkers about research
- When performing reading theatrically (soliloquy mode)
- When exploring how different intellectual traditions would receive findings
- When teaching by demonstrating multiple perspectives
- When the goal is to make abstract findings personally resonant
Do NOT use when:
- User needs straightforward accurate summary
- The persona would trivialize serious research
- Context requires the user's own voice, not channeled ones
- Persona-adoption would be disrespectful (living people who haven't consented)
- You don't know enough about the channeled figure to do them justice
MODES OF PROSOPOPOEIA
MODE 1: THE HISTORICAL TIME MACHINE
Channel genius through the paper. How would they receive it?
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 316 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A c04be0bd1fa5
paper-prosopopoeia is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,621 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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