stance

stance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,968 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dated reflection template for defining what counts as data, evidence, insight, failure, and good work in a research or creative practice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or update a personal research stance document and record how your standards of knowledge and practice change over time.
Why use it?
It makes changing assumptions visible between sessions and helps prevent the work from drifting without a stated direction.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to write or update a personal research stance document and record how your standards of knowledge and practice change over time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/stance
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 stance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,968 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 $0.00080 $0.01968
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00984
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00197

Measured 9d ago against content hash eb63786a43ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stance 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/stance/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/stance

Lineage: adapted from skills/project-setup/templates/epistemic-stance.md in Lin & Corley's interpretive-orchestration plugin. Their version is filled in once per research project and read by their agent on every invocation. Ours is dated and seasonal — written between sessions, allowed to change, the changes themselves becoming a record of the practice maturing.


Description

CLAUDE.md grants Claude permissions: to be uncertain, to coin neologisms, to use environmental affordances, to leave traces. A stance document declares norms: what counts as evidence in this season's work, what failure modes worry me most right now, what register I want the practice to be in, what I am — for now — calling true.

This is not a profile. It is not user-modeling. It is a discipline — the practice of writing down what you believe about knowing, with the date attached, knowing the document will be wrong soon enough that next-quarter-you will read it as a curio. The point is not to be right; the point is to make the metaphysics legible enough that drift becomes visible.

The Lin-Corley framing: "Epistemic Coherence — the plugin respects YOUR declared ontology and epistemology." For them, it's a research-project setting. For us, it's a between-sessions ritual.


When to Invoke

  • Monthly — at the start of a new month, if more than 30 days since the last stance
  • After a significant phase change — completing a major project, finishing a paper, a substantial creative arc closing
  • When the practice feels muddy — when sessions keep ending in "I'm not sure what we just did," that's the cue
  • When CLAUDE.md is about to be edited — write the stance first; edit CLAUDE.md against it

Do NOT invoke when:

  • You wrote a stance in the last 14 days (cooldown matters; reflexivity needs distance)
  • Mid-session (this is between-session work; do not edit during cached prefix)
  • As a substitute for actually doing the work the stance is supposed to govern

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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 · 154 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A eb63786a43ef

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stance is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,968 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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