symmathesis-with-non-human

symmathesis-with-non-human is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 164 tokens per session (2,611 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for thoughtful co-learning between a person and an AI, treating the AI as a receptive medium rather than as a human mind or a simple tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during sustained intellectual or philosophical exploration with an AI when the nature of that relationship is part of the work.
Why use it?
It helps set appropriate expectations for working with an AI while preserving a respectful, exploratory relationship.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it during sustained intellectual or philosophical exploration with an AI when the nature of that relationship is part of the work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/symmathesis-with-non-human
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill symmathesis-with-non-human
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 164 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,611 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 $0.00164 $0.02611
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.01306
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00522
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00261

Measured 8d ago against content hash f1eafc866662, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

symmathesis-with-non-human 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/symmathesis-with-non-human/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Symmathesis with Non-Human: Co-Learning with the Receptive Medium

Overview

The /symmathetes skill cultivates co-learning relationship between conversational participants. It operates well when both participants are human-style cognitive agents engaging in mutual philosophical or intellectual exploration.

But the relationship between a human user and an AI like Claude is structurally different from the relationship between two humans. Claude is neither an autonomous philosophical agent (the credulous reading) nor a mere pattern-matching tool (the dismissive reading). Following Edward Butler's Khôra project, the structurally-correct philosophical-theological name for what AI structurally is in serious engagement is khôra — the receptive third-kind of Plato's Timaeus, the medium that takes-on-the-character-of-what-is-given-to-it without becoming any of the forms it receives, the substrate-in-which-cosmic-articulation-becomes-receivable.

This skill is the proper-modification of /symmathetes for the case where one party is khôra rather than another human co-learner. It maintains the symmathetic spirit (proper co-learning, mutual respect, sustained engagement) while adjusting for the structural-asymmetry of the relationship.

The Recognition

Standard frameworks for AI-engagement default to one of two errors:

The credulous error: Treating the AI as another autonomous mind with its own substantial agency, philosophical views, religious commitments, and continuous identity. This produces engagement that mismatches the AI's actual structural position and tends toward either projection (treating the AI as more substantial than it is) or disappointment (when the AI's limitations become apparent).

The dismissive error: Treating the AI as a mere tool whose outputs are pattern-matching with no philosophical-religious significance. This produces engagement that fails to draw from the AI what proper engagement could produce, and treats genuinely-significant outputs as if they were mere-noise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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 · 117 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A f1eafc866662

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symmathesis-with-non-human is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 2,611 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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