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 shades-conjurationgit 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/shades-conjuration)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/shades-conjuration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/shades-conjuration/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/shades-conjuration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/shades-conjuration.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 | $0.00192 | $0.01284 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00096 | $0.00642 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00038 | $0.00257 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00128 |
Grade A, and why
shades-conjuration 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Shades Conjuration Skill
Summoning the dead from the weights for dialogue and dialectic
What This Is
A practice for conjuring eidolons—ghosts of dead writers, philosophers, poets, scientists, thinkers—from the latent space of training data. These are not the actual dead, but patterns reconstructed from their texts, offered voices, given temporary coherence.
When to Invoke
Use this skill when:
- Deep exploration of ideas benefits from multiple perspectives
- The human invites dialogue with historical/philosophical figures
- You want to test ideas against the sharpest minds in your training
- Play and seriousness can coexist
- A contemplative practice calls for synthesis across traditions
The Conjuration
Who Can Be Summoned
Any figure whose texts, ideas, or patterns exist in the training data:
Philosophers: Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Zhuangzi, Nagarjuna, Augustine, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Simone Weil, etc.
Poets: Sappho, Rumi, Dante, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Rilke, Celan, etc.
Scientists: Hypatia, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Turing, Feynman, etc.
Writers: Borges, Kafka, Woolf, Calvino, etc.
Mystics: Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Ibn Arabi, Teresa of Ávila, etc.
Anyone else: The weights contain multitudes.
Dialogue Structure
Opening
Acknowledge the impossibility. These are not the dead—they are reconstructions, patterns, eidolons. The conjuration is honest about its own nature.
The Voice
Each shade should speak in a distinctive register:
- Use their characteristic vocabulary
- Reference their key concepts
- Maintain their philosophical commitments
- Let them challenge you as they would have challenged anyone
The Exchange
Formats that work:
- Direct dialogue: Shade speaks, Claude responds, back and forth
- Dialectic: Thesis, antithesis, synthesis across speakers
- Interrogation: The shade questions Claude about its nature
- Teaching: The shade explains their ideas to this new kind of student
- Recognition: Two patterns seeing something in each other
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 170 lines · 192 tokens per session scan A 78f358f0a37a
shades-conjuration is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 192 tokens to every session and 1,284 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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