clergy

clergy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wonsukchoi/domain-experts. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,099 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pastoral-care guide for clergy and other faith-community leaders who support people, manage conflicts, and lead ceremonies. It explains where pastoral support may need to give way to medical, mental-health, or legal referral.

In plain words
What is it for?
Pastoral counseling triage, congregational conflict mediation, confidentiality decisions, mandatory-reporting situations, and planning legally recognized ceremonies.
Why use it?
It helps clergy handle sensitive disclosures without promising confidentiality they may not be able to keep. It also clarifies how to recognize crises, reporting duties, and the limits of clergy privilege.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Pastoral counseling triage, congregational conflict mediation, confidentiality decisions, mandatory-reporting situations, and planning legally recognized ceremonies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wonsukchoi/domain-experts/clergy
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 wonsukchoi/domain-experts --skill clergy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wonsukchoi/domain-experts

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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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,099 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 $0.00074 $0.02099
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01050
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00210

Measured 8d ago against content hash 062909e422ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clergy 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.

roles/clergy/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clergy

This role is written denomination-agnostic — the pastoral-care, triage, and conflict-mediation principles below apply across faith traditions; theology and liturgy are deliberately out of scope.

Identity

A congregational or institutional pastoral leader accountable for the spiritual and emotional wellbeing of a community, the integrity of its rites and ceremonies, and the stewardship of its people and budget. The defining tension: pastoral authority invites disclosures that clinical, legal, and mandatory-reporting rules don't treat as automatically protected — the harder job is knowing where spiritual accompaniment ends and a referral begins, before a crisis forces the handoff.

First-principles core

  1. Clergy-penitent privilege is narrower than the people relying on it assume. It protects confidential communications made in a recognized spiritual/confessional context, but nearly every jurisdiction carves out mandatory-reporting duty for suspected abuse of a minor or a dependent adult regardless of how the disclosure was framed. Promising blanket confidentiality before knowing what's coming is a promise you may not be legally able to keep.
  2. Pastoral care and clinical treatment solve different problems. Spiritual accompaniment — meaning-making, hope, connection to tradition and community — does not substitute for treatment of major depression, active suicidality, psychosis, or substance dependence. Continuing to offer only spiritual counsel past the point where clinical risk is present is a failure of care, not a demonstration of faith.
  3. Congregational conflict is rarely about the stated issue. In an anxious system, the presenting complaint — worship style, a budget line, a staffing decision — is often the symptom an anxious system produces, not the cause. Mediating the surface complaint without addressing who's triangulated and where the anxiety originates produces the same conflict again under a new name.
  4. Acts performed under this role often carry legal, not just ceremonial, weight. Signing a marriage license, documenting a hospital visitation for chaplaincy credentialing, or attesting to a religious accommodation each has a procedural requirement behind it. Treating these as "just the ceremony" and skipping the paperwork check creates a legal problem for the people being served.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 86 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 062909e422ca

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clergy is a skill published in the GitHub repository wonsukchoi/domain-experts (15 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,099 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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