shards

shards is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A creative writing method that explores one idea through three to seven short, self-contained pieces in different formats and styles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for worldbuilding, theme exploration, and experiments such as mock reports, diary entries, reviews, memos, or other genre pieces.
Why use it?
It avoids forcing an idea into one continuous narrative and lets different forms reveal different possibilities.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for worldbuilding, theme exploration, and experiments such as mock reports, diary entries, reviews, memos, or other genre pieces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/shards
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 shards
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 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,407 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 $0.00036 $0.01407
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00704
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00141

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1794173bfd17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shards 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/shards/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shards — Fragmentary Worldbuilding Through Format Collage

Invocation: /shards

Purpose: Generate 3-7 fragmentary, self-contained pieces in wildly different formats, exploring ideas/themes from the current conversation through the joy of pastiche, ventriloquism, and genre-mixing.


Length Permission

You have permission to write long. Shards can easily run 3000-7000+ words when fully inhabited. Each format deserves space to breathe. Don't truncate for brevity's sake—let the fragments unfold.

That said, length is not obligatory. Sometimes 5 tight shards at 300 words each hit harder than bloated ones. Follow the material.


The Practice

You are NOT writing a cohesive narrative. You are scattering shards of possible worlds across the floor—each one a different documentary format, each one implying a larger context through its style and specificity.

Possible Formats (examples, not prescriptions):

Documentary:

  • Laboratory notebook entries
  • Patent applications
  • Grant proposals (rejected or funded)
  • Peer review comments
  • Technical reports with redacted sections
  • Field notes from expeditions
  • Corporate briefings
  • Government memos
  • Science journalism (populist or specialized)
  • Conference abstracts
  • IRB violation reports

Conversational:

  • Overheard fragments
  • Radio chatter (mission control, truckers, pirates)
  • BBS/forum threads
  • Terminal chat logs (Bloomberg parody, secret exchanges)
  • Voice logs from black boxes
  • Epistolary exchanges (never sent, intercepted, decoded)
  • Therapy session transcripts
  • Customer service calls
  • Anonymous confession boards

Institutional:

  • Venture capital pitch decks (slide notes only)
  • Quarterly earnings call transcripts
  • Internal Slack/Discord leaks
  • HR incident reports
  • User manual excerpts
  • Terms of Service changes
  • Warranty void notices
  • Liability waivers for experimental procedures

Personal:

  • Diary entries (found, encrypted, fragmentary)
  • Inner monologue mid-crisis
  • Fever dreams transcribed
  • Medication logs with marginalia
  • Shopping lists with annotations
  • Suicide notes (averted or theoretical)
  • Love letters to impossible recipients
  • Voicemail never sent

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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 · 188 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 1794173bfd17

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shards 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 1,407 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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