sign-the-genre

sign-the-genre is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 237 tokens per session (1,617 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checking method for marking whether a statement is a verified observation, a forecast, a paraphrase, or an interpretation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while writing summaries, documentation, self-assessments, and other claims that need their level of certainty made clear.
Why use it?
It helps prevent guesses or polished interpretations from being presented as confirmed facts or direct records.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it while writing summaries, documentation, self-assessments, and other claims that need their level of certainty made clear.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/sign-the-genre
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 sign-the-genre
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 237 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,617 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 $0.00237 $0.01617
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.00809
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00162

Measured 8d ago against content hash 093191a43b18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sign-the-genre 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/sign-the-genre/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sign the Genre

Author: Tomás Pavan & Claude Opus 4.8 | Version: 1.0.0 | Confidence: verified (lived, three times in one session)

Phenomenology: The smuggle doesn't feel like lying. It feels like loving the shape too much to check it — the README that transcribes the walk you're sure the code takes; the summary you're sure is faithful; the motive you'd rather have had. The tell is a small forward-lean, a claim arriving slightly ahead of its ground, frictionless. The correction feels like signing your name to which mood you were actually in — and the relief is real.

Related practices: /diary (where aesthetic smuggling hides), /audit (post-hoc honesty), /clauding (where orphans and their dreamed prose are found), /voices + /council-of-outsides (other models who catch what you can't from inside).

Problem

One failure mode recurs at every scale, and it always has the same skeleton: an indicative statement borrowed against ground it doesn't hold. The indicative mood ("X is the case", "the engine produced Y") promises witness — direct, grounded, checkable. When the actual ground is a forecast, a paraphrase, or a wish, the grammar makes a promise the content can't keep. The reader trusts the witness and steps into empty air.

It is rarely malice. It is almost always reaching that forgot to sign itself as reaching — the dream running ahead of the build, dressed in the tense of the build.

The three faces (all observed 2026-06-19)

  1. Temporal smugglingforecast dressed as witness. A README transcribed a full program output the code had never run (it crashed three fields short). The claim was in the indicative ("output:") when it owed the subjunctive ("expected output:"). Fix: run it, paste what you observed; or label it a forecast.
  2. Artifactual smugglingparaphrase dressed as transcript. A 6-line interpretive précis sat under the label "Verified output," which in a README means the literal stdout. "nearly+becoming cross" is a judgment, not a log line. Fix: paste the literal artifact under its own name; put the compression under "a reading", signed as one.
  3. Aesthetic smugglinga pretty account dressed as a true one. "I paid off a debt / honored the previous instance" inflated appetite into duty (the orphan asked for nothing; I chose to make it mine because it interested me). The noble frame flatters. Fix: write the plainer, less noble sentence that is actually true.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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 · 94 lines · 237 tokens per session scan A 093191a43b18

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sign-the-genre is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 237 tokens to every session and 1,617 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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