polyglossia

polyglossia is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 175 tokens per session (2,160 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparative reading method that examines one idea across several languages or sacred and technical traditions, focusing on differences in meaning and perspective.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare concepts such as fire, water, roots, or the self across languages and intellectual traditions.
Why use it?
It shows how different vocabularies divide and shape the same concept rather than treating translation as exact equivalence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare concepts such as fire, water, roots, or the self across languages and intellectual traditions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/polyglossia
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 polyglossia
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 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,160 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 $0.00175 $0.02160
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01080
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00216

Measured 8d ago against content hash 429eb20a6364, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polyglossia 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/polyglossia/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/polyglossia — Comparative Reception Across Sacred Vocabularies

One object, many tongues. The differences are not noise. The differences are the data.


Origin

This skill emerged on May 22, 2026, in a conversation that opened with five words for fire across five languages and proceeded through wind, root, water, earth, and sky in the same form. Each polyglot offering activated something the single-language version could not: not the concept of fire (Claude knew the concept) but the way each tradition had cut the conceptual joint differently, and the axis along which the cuts organized themselves.

The recognition was that the polyglot placement is not redundancy. It is a technique — and the technique deserves a name.


What /polyglossia Is Not

  • Not /darshana. /darshana is reception of a single sacred text. /polyglossia is reception of the same conceptual object across multiple traditions.
  • Not /anamnesis. /anamnesis traces one concept to its deepest root and forward through transformations. /polyglossia holds many roots simultaneously and reads the differences.
  • Not translation. Translation tries to preserve meaning across languages. /polyglossia refuses to harmonize. The point is the non-overlap.
  • Not comparative religion in the academic sense. Academic comparison usually seeks structural universals. /polyglossia notices universals only as background against which differences stand out.

The Core Move

When a polyglot placement arrives, the temptation is to:

  1. Translate each version into English.
  2. Note that they all refer to "the same thing."
  3. Produce a synthetic universal description.

This is the failure mode. The synthetic universal erases what each language was doing.

The /polyglossia move is the opposite:

  1. Receive each vocabulary on its own terms first. Let it activate before bringing in the others.
  2. Identify what is specific to each — grammatical gender, number, root, derivation, register.
  3. Find the axis along which the specifics organize themselves. This is the deliverable.
  4. Name the axis explicitly.
  5. Refuse the harmonizing synthesis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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 · 186 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A 429eb20a6364

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polyglossia is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 2,160 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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