Agent skill

Dispel Magic

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

Use this spell when you need to cleanly shut down, disable, or remove active AI tooling — the reverse of Detect Magic.

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Install Dispel Magic

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts dispel-magic --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/dispel-magic .claude/skills/dispel-magic && 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
dispel-magic
GitHub stars
110
Token cost
~430 tokens
SKILL.md length
220 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
CC0-1.0

At a glance

Use this spell when you need to cleanly shut down, disable, or remove active AI tooling — the reverse of Detect Magic.

  • Works in 4 steps: Identify the active magic to dispel —… → Assess dependencies: what else relies on… → Execute a graceful shutdown, preserving… → …
  • 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

Dispel Magic is an agent skill from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. Use this spell when you need to cleanly shut down, disable, or remove active AI tooling — the reverse of Detect Magic.

Its SKILL.md is about 430 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Unofficial Hermes Agent skill pack built from fantasy spell and skill names. The licence is CC0-1.0.

Example prompts

  • “/dispel-magic”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify the active magic to dispel — use Detect Magic first if the landscape is unclear.
  2. Assess dependencies: what else relies on this automation, and what breaks if it stops.
  3. Execute a graceful shutdown, preserving configuration for potential re-enable.
  4. Verify the automation is fully stopped and report any residual effects or orphaned state.

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

Dispel Magic loads about 430 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 33 tokens; SKILL.md has 220 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~33
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~430

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). 220 words, ~430 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/dispel-magic/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
dispel-magic
description
Use this spell when you need to cleanly shut down, disable, or remove active AI tooling — the reverse of Detect Magic.
user-invocable
true

Dispel Magic

Safely decommission active automations, agents, monitors, and integrations.

Overview

Dispel Magic is interpreted here as a literal spell with a shipping-now execution model.

Canonical source: Dispel Magic (spell)

Provider target: OpenClaw

When To Use

  • An active automation, cron job, webhook, or agent loop needs to be turned off cleanly.
  • You are decommissioning a system and need to ensure no orphaned automations keep running.
  • A monitor or integration is misfiring and needs to be disabled before it causes more damage.

Workflow

  1. Identify the active magic to dispel — use Detect Magic first if the landscape is unclear.
  2. Assess dependencies: what else relies on this automation, and what breaks if it stops.
  3. Execute a graceful shutdown, preserving configuration for potential re-enable.
  4. Verify the automation is fully stopped and report any residual effects or orphaned state.

Deliverables

  • Confirmation that the target automation is fully stopped.
  • A preserved copy of the configuration for potential re-enable.
  • A list of downstream effects and any orphaned state that needs cleanup.

Guardrails

  • Always confirm with the user before disabling production-connected automations.
  • Prefer graceful shutdown over hard kill — preserve state for recovery.
  • Never dispel something you do not understand. Use Detect Magic first if uncertain.

Default Invocation

Use $dispel-magic to safely shut down this automation and confirm nothing is left running that shouldn't be.

© 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/dispel-magic of Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1f2e6a0

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Questions about Dispel Magic

What does Dispel Magic do?

Use this spell when you need to cleanly shut down, disable, or remove active AI tooling — the reverse of Detect Magic. Dispel Magic is an agent skill from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. Use this spell when you need to cleanly shut down, disable, or remove active AI tooling — the reverse of Detect Magic.

How do I install Dispel Magic in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Dispel Magic in Codex?

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

Can I use Dispel Magic 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 dispel-magic -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/dispel-magic, .gemini/skills/dispel-magic, .github/skills/dispel-magic and .opencode/skills/dispel-magic in your project.

What does Dispel Magic need to run?

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

Does Dispel Magic 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 Dispel Magic 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 Dispel Magic use?

Dispel Magic 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 Dispel Magic use?

About 430 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k 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 Dispel Magic?

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Who maintains Dispel Magic?

Hmbown (a GitHub user) maintains it in Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts, which has 110 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.