Agent skill

Dancing Lights

by Hmbown in Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts

Use this spell for lightweight indicators: status pips, progress markers, heartbeat widgets, and ambient observability that help humans orient quickly.

CC0-1.0Auto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Dancing Lights

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill dancing-lights -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts dancing-lights --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/generated/openclaw/dancing-lights .claude/skills/dancing-lights && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
dancing-lights
GitHub stars
109
Token cost
~528 tokens
SKILL.md length
243 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
CC0-1.0

At a glance

Use this spell for lightweight indicators: status pips, progress markers, heartbeat widgets, and ambient observability that help humans orient quickly.

  • Works in 4 steps: Choose the minimum set of signals that… → Map those signals to simple visuals,… → Return the indicator spec with data… → …
  • Tasks that involve Observability
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When To Use, Workflow and Deliverables, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Dancing Lights is an agent skill from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. Use this spell for lightweight indicators: status pips, progress markers, heartbeat widgets, and ambient observability that help humans orient quickly. It is not a full dashboard strategy; it is the small visual cue that says where to look next.

Its SKILL.md is about 530 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Observability. The repository describes itself as: Unofficial Hermes Agent skill pack built from fantasy spell and skill names. The licence is CC0-1.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Observability

Example prompts

  • “/dancing-lights”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Choose the minimum set of signals that actually matter at a glance.
  2. Map those signals to simple visuals, placement, and refresh behavior that stay legible under stress.
  3. Return the indicator spec with data sources, stale-state handling, and error states.
  4. If Home Assistant is available, use the HA REST API to set light states directly — POST to /api/services/light/turn_on with entity_id…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1f2e6a0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Dancing Lights loads about 528 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 243 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~65
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~528

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts at commit 1f2e6a0, republished under its CC0-1.0 licence (© Hmbown). 243 words, ~528 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/dancing-lights/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
dancing-lights
description
Use this spell for lightweight indicators: status pips, progress markers, heartbeat widgets, and ambient observability that help humans orient quickly. It is not a full dashboard strategy; it is the small visual cue that says where to look next.
user-invocable
true

Dancing Lights

Hang small moving signals in the dark so people can tell what the system is doing.

Overview

Dancing Lights is interpreted here as a hybrid spell with a shipping-now execution model.

Canonical source: Dancing Lights (spell)

Provider target: OpenClaw

When To Use

  • You need a lightweight status or progress display rather than a full observability buildout.
  • A small ambient indicator would help people see health, motion, or blockage at a glance.
  • The goal is orientation and reassurance, not deep analysis in a heavy dashboard.
  • Your Home Assistant setup has Philips Hue or other smart lights that can serve as ambient status indicators.

Workflow

  1. Choose the minimum set of signals that actually matter at a glance.
  2. Map those signals to simple visuals, placement, and refresh behavior that stay legible under stress.
  3. Return the indicator spec with data sources, stale-state handling, and error states.
  4. If Home Assistant is available, use the HA REST API to set light states directly — POST to /api/services/light/turn_on with entity_id, brightness, and rgb_color.

Deliverables

  • A compact status display concept or implementation brief.
  • A signal-to-visual mapping for healthy, stale, and failing states.
  • Notes on refresh cadence, placement, and what the indicator does not claim.

Guardrails

  • Do not imply precision or freshness the underlying data cannot support.
  • Make stale, unknown, or disconnected states visibly different from healthy ones.

Default Invocation

Use $dancing-lights to design a small status display for this workflow and make the signal states unambiguous.

© Hmbown, CC0-1.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in generated/openclaw/dancing-lights of Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1f2e6a0

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Kubeshark Installerkubeshark/kubeshark12k—~3.6kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0
Kubeshark KFL2 Filter Referencekubeshark/kubeshark12k—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
KubeSphere ServiceMesh Managerkubesphere/kubesphere17k—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
Kubernetes Network Root Cause Analysiskubeshark/kubeshark12k—~5.3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Categories

Questions about Dancing Lights

What does Dancing Lights do?

Use this spell for lightweight indicators: status pips, progress markers, heartbeat widgets, and ambient observability that help humans orient quickly. Dancing Lights is an agent skill from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. Use this spell for lightweight indicators: status pips, progress markers, heartbeat widgets, and ambient observability that help humans orient quickly.

When should I use Dancing Lights?

Dancing Lights fits situations like: tasks that involve Observability.

How do I install Dancing Lights in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill dancing-lights -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (generated/openclaw/dancing-lights in Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts) into .claude/skills/dancing-lights in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Dancing Lights in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill dancing-lights -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (generated/openclaw/dancing-lights in Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts) into .agents/skills/dancing-lights in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Dancing Lights in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts --skill dancing-lights -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/dancing-lights, .gemini/skills/dancing-lights, .github/skills/dancing-lights and .opencode/skills/dancing-lights in your project.

What does Dancing Lights need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Dancing Lights is instructions for the agent only.

Does Dancing Lights access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Dancing Lights safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Dancing Lights use?

Dancing Lights is published under the CC0-1.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Dancing Lights use?

About 528 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Dancing Lights?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Dancing Lights: Vercel Optimize Audit (vercel-labs/agent-skills, 32k stars), Kubeshark Installer (kubeshark/kubeshark, 12k stars), Kubeshark KFL2 Filter Reference (kubeshark/kubeshark, 12k stars) and KubeSphere ServiceMesh Manager (kubesphere/kubesphere, 17k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Dancing Lights?

Hmbown (a GitHub user) maintains it in Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts, which has 109 GitHub stars. The repository holds 11 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on April 5, 2026.

Source: Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.