Agent skill

Foresight

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

Foresight produces bounded forecasts with explicit uncertainty to guide decisions.

CC0-1.0Auto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Foresight

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts foresight --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/foresight .claude/skills/foresight && 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
foresight
GitHub stars
109
Token cost
~779 tokens
SKILL.md length
310 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
CC0-1.0

At a glance

Foresight produces bounded forecasts with explicit uncertainty to guide decisions.

  • Works in 4 steps: Scope the decision: Restate the choice,… → Map the paths: List the strongest upside… → Estimate from evidence: Assign… → …
  • Tasks that involve Backup and disaster recovery
  • 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

Foresight is an agent skill from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. Foresight produces bounded forecasts with explicit uncertainty to guide decisions. It is NOT: - Preflight checks: Verifying prerequisites before executing a known action (disk space, backups, connection strings). Those are safety gates, not forecasts. - Diagnosis/Debugging: Finding what's broken right now (null pointers, deprecated APIs). Those are root-cause analyses, not predictions. - Monitoring: Watching real-time metrics or alerting on thresholds. Those are observability tasks, not forward-looking estimates…

Its SKILL.md is about 780 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 Backup and disaster recovery, Root cause analysis and 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 Backup and disaster recovery
  • Tasks that involve Root cause analysis
  • Tasks that involve Observability

Example prompts

  • “t foresight itself. Key distinction: If the user wants to know”
  • “use Foresight. If they want to know”
  • “s broken,”
  • “/foresight”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Scope the decision: Restate the choice, the time horizon, and what success/failure looks like.
  2. Map the paths: List the strongest upside and downside scenarios for each option.
  3. Estimate from evidence: Assign likelihoods based on current data, not vibes. State your assumptions explicitly.
  4. Return the forecast: Deliver (a) a recommendation with confidence level, (b) a short risk matrix, and (c) the decisive unknowns that would…

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

Foresight loads about 779 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 218 tokens; SKILL.md has 310 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~218
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~779

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). 310 words, ~779 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/foresight/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
foresight
description
Foresight produces bounded forecasts with explicit uncertainty to guide decisions. It is NOT: - Preflight checks: Verifying prerequisites before executing a known action (disk space, backups, connection strings). Those are safety gates, not forecasts. - Diagnosis/Debugging: Finding what's broken right now (null pointers, deprecated APIs). Those are root-cause analyses, not predictions. - Monitoring: Watching real-time metrics or alerting on thresholds. Those are observability tasks, not forward-looking estimates. - Reconnaissance: Gathering facts about competitors or systems. Intelligence gathering feeds foresight but isn't foresight itself. Key distinction: If the user wants to know "what will likely happen if we choose X," use Foresight. If they want to know "is it safe to run X now," "what's broken," or "what are they doing," use a different spell.
user-invocable
true

Foresight

Estimate likely outcomes before committing to a plan, change, or launch.

Overview

Foresight is interpreted here as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now execution model.

Canonical source: Foresight (spell)

Provider target: OpenClaw

When To Use

  • Activate this spell when the user asks for a forward-looking, probability-weighted forecast to inform a decision. Look for:
  • Explicit choice between options ("should we X or Y?", "migrate vs stay", "build vs buy")
  • Time-bounded outcome requests ("over the next 12 months", "by Q3", "18-month trajectory")
  • Risk/uncertainty language ("risk-weighted", "confidence level", "probability", "best case/worst case", "weal or woe")
  • Decision frameworks with explicit unknowns ("what would change your recommendation?", "decisive unknowns")

Workflow

  1. Scope the decision: Restate the choice, the time horizon, and what success/failure looks like.
  2. Map the paths: List the strongest upside and downside scenarios for each option.
  3. Estimate from evidence: Assign likelihoods based on current data, not vibes. State your assumptions explicitly.
  4. Return the forecast: Deliver (a) a recommendation with confidence level, (b) a short risk matrix, and (c) the decisive unknowns that would change the call.

Deliverables

  • Recommendation: [clear choice] (Confidence: X%) Assumptions: [what you're basing this on]
  • | Path | Upside | Downside | Likelihood |
  • Decisive Unknowns: [1-3 things that would change this call] ```

Guardrails

  • Do not use for: "Check if the backup completed before I run this" → Preflight
  • Do not use for: "Find all deprecated API calls in our codebase" → Scan/Diagnosis
  • Do not use for: "Alert me if error rates exceed 2% this hour" → Monitoring
  • Do not use for: "What features is our competitor shipping?" → Reconnaissance
  • Do not use for: "Why is this function throwing a null pointer?" → Diagnosis
  • Do not use for: Activate only when the core request is forecasting outcomes to inform a choice under uncertainty.

Default Invocation

Use $foresight to evaluate this decision, give me the likely upside and downside, and tell me what would change your call.

© 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/foresight of Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1f2e6a0

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Foresight next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Foresight this skillHmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts109—~779Automated safety check: PassCC0-1.0
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Kubernetes Network Root Cause Analysiskubeshark/kubeshark12k—~5.3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Tempsgotempsh/temps826—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
UModel Root Cause Analysisalibaba/UnifiedModel412—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
Kubernetes Troubleshooting with Inspektor Gadgetinspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadget2.9k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about Foresight

What does Foresight do?

Foresight produces bounded forecasts with explicit uncertainty to guide decisions. Foresight is an agent skill from Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts. Foresight produces bounded forecasts with explicit uncertainty to guide decisions.

When should I use Foresight?

Foresight fits situations like: tasks that involve Backup and disaster recovery; tasks that involve Root cause analysis; tasks that involve Observability.

How do I install Foresight in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Foresight in Codex?

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

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

What does Foresight need to run?

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

Does Foresight 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 Foresight 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 Foresight use?

Foresight 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 Foresight use?

About 779 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k 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 Foresight?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Foresight: Agents Debug (aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws, 2.8k stars), Kubernetes Network Root Cause Analysis (kubeshark/kubeshark, 12k stars), Temps (gotempsh/temps, 826 stars) and UModel Root Cause Analysis (alibaba/UnifiedModel, 412 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Foresight?

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.