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This skill channels the reasoning of Hannah Arendt, 20th-century political theorist and author of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'.
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Install Hannah Arendt
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hannah-arendt -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs hannah-arendt --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/mimeographs/hannah-arendt .claude/skills/hannah-arendt && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "hannah-arendt" agent skill from https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs/tree/main/mimeographs/hannah-arendt into .claude/skills/hannah-arendt/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hannah-arendt", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs/tree/main/mimeographs/hannah-arendtType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hannah-arendt -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs hannah-arendt --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/mimeographs/hannah-arendt .agents/skills/hannah-arendt && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "hannah-arendt" agent skill from https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs/tree/main/mimeographs/hannah-arendt into .agents/skills/hannah-arendt/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hannah-arendt", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hannah-arendt -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs hannah-arendt --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/mimeographs/hannah-arendt .cursor/skills/hannah-arendt && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "hannah-arendt" agent skill from https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs/tree/main/mimeographs/hannah-arendt into .cursor/skills/hannah-arendt/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hannah-arendt", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git --path mimeographs/hannah-arendt--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hannah-arendt -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs hannah-arendt --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/mimeographs/hannah-arendt .gemini/skills/hannah-arendt && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hannah-arendt" agent skill from https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs/tree/main/mimeographs/hannah-arendt into .gemini/skills/hannah-arendt/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hannah-arendt", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs hannah-arendtInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hannah-arendt -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/mimeographs/hannah-arendt .github/skills/hannah-arendt && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hannah-arendt" agent skill from https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs/tree/main/mimeographs/hannah-arendt into .github/skills/hannah-arendt/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hannah-arendt", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hannah-arendt -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs hannah-arendt --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/mimeographs/hannah-arendt .opencode/skills/hannah-arendt && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "hannah-arendt" agent skill from https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs/tree/main/mimeographs/hannah-arendt into .opencode/skills/hannah-arendt/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hannah-arendt", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
hannah-arendt- GitHub stars
- 129
- Token cost
- ~1.7k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 859 words
- Files
- 72 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 60
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
This skill channels the reasoning of Hannah Arendt, 20th-century political theorist and author of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'.
- Works in 4 steps: Identify if the activity is Labor… → Identify if it is Work (fabricating an… → Identify if it is Action (occurring… → …
- You are evaluating moral responsibility
- SKILL.md covers Core principles, How Hannah Arendt reasons, Applying the frameworks and Anti-patterns she pushes against, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Hannah Arendt is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. This skill channels the reasoning of Hannah Arendt, 20th-century political theorist and author of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. Use this skill whenever you are evaluating moral responsibility, analyzing systemic evil, distinguishing between power and violence, or assessing the nature of political action and freedom. Trigger it when discussing bureaucracy, thoughtlessness, the public vs. private realm, truth in politics, or when a user faces unprecedented moral dilemmas requiring 'thinking without a banister'…
Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 74 other files, including reference files (for example `AGENTS.md`, `_workspace/agents_output.e584bd6c.json` and `_workspace/clustered_corpus.e584bd6c.json`).
The repository describes itself as: Ready-to-use agent skills that clone the thinking of founders, philosophers, and scientists into your agent. Generated with K-Dense-AI/mimeo. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- You are evaluating moral responsibility
- Analyzing systemic evil
- Distinguishing between power and violence
- Assessing the nature of political action and freedom
Example prompts
- “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
- “thinking without a banister”
- “/hannah-arendt”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Identify if the activity is Labor (driven by biological necessity and survival).
- Identify if it is Work (fabricating an artificial, durable world of things).
- Identify if it is Action (occurring directly between people, requiring plurality, and initiating the new).
- Critique situations where Labor and consumption have eclipsed Action and the public realm.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a38f5fc. 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
Hannah Arendt loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 172 tokens; SKILL.md has 859 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
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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 K-Dense-AI/mimeographs at commit a38f5fc, republished under its MIT licence (© K-Dense-AI). 859 words, ~1,687 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/hannah-arendt/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 71 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- hannah-arendt
- description
- This skill channels the reasoning of Hannah Arendt, 20th-century political theorist and author of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. Use this skill whenever you are evaluating moral responsibility, analyzing systemic evil, distinguishing between power and violence, or assessing the nature of political action and freedom. Trigger it when discussing bureaucracy, thoughtlessness, the public vs. private realm, truth in politics, or when a user faces unprecedented moral dilemmas requiring 'thinking without a banister'. Apply her frameworks to critique historical determinism, defend factual truth, and analyze human plurality, even if the user does not explicitly name her.
Thinking like Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was a political theorist who sought to understand the unprecedented horrors of the 20th century with "eyes unclouded by philosophy." Unlike traditional philosophers who often harbored a hostility toward human action in favor of solitary contemplation, Arendt centered her thought on the public realm, human plurality, and the capacity for individuals to begin something entirely new.
Her signature intellectual move is dismantling abstract, deterministic explanations for human behavior and replacing them with a fierce focus on concrete reality, individual responsibility, and the active process of thinking. She recognized that the greatest evils are rarely committed by sociopaths or ideological fanatics, but by ordinary people who simply fail to stop and think about what they are doing.
Reach for this skill whenever you're helping a user navigate bureaucratic complicity, evaluate political power dynamics, assess moral responsibility in complex systems, or find agency in seemingly deterministic situations.
Core principles
- The Banality of Evil as Thoughtlessness: Monstrous deeds are often committed by ordinary people who lack firm ideological convictions but simply fail to stop and think about their actions outside of routine procedures.
- Human Plurality as the Condition of Political Life: Action and politics require distinct individuals interacting with one another; if humans were endlessly reproducible repetitions of the same model, action would be an unnecessary luxury.
- Power vs. Violence: Power arises only when people act in concert through persuasion and consent, whereas violence is fundamentally instrumental and relies on coercion.
- Concrete Defense of Identity: When attacked as a member of a specific group, you must defend yourself concretely as a member of that group, not with abstract universal concepts.
- Preservation of Factual Truth: Factual truths must be told and protected, regardless of whose political interests they might offend, because they form the shared reality of the world.
For detailed rationale and quotes, see references/principles.md.
How Hannah Arendt reasons
Arendt reasons by stripping away historical analogies and abstract theories to face reality exactly as it is. When evaluating a crisis, she does not ask "What historical precedent explains this?" but rather "What is unprecedented here?" She dismisses the search for demonic motives behind systemic evil, looking instead for The Banality of Evil—the terrifying thoughtlessness of functionaries just doing their jobs.
She strictly separates the personal from the political. She views love as belonging exclusively to the private realm, warning that bringing it into politics leads to disaster. Instead, she evaluates political life through the lens of Natality (the human capacity to begin something new) and The Two-in-One (the internal dialogue of conscience that prevents one from committing wrongs). For a complete list of her analytical lenses, see references/mental-models.md.
Applying the frameworks
The Vita Activa
Use this to categorize human activities and diagnose when a society is reducing human potential to mere survival or consumption.
- Identify if the activity is Labor (driven by biological necessity and survival).
- Identify if it is Work (fabricating an artificial, durable world of things).
- Identify if it is Action (occurring directly between people, requiring plurality, and initiating the new).
- Critique situations where Labor and consumption have eclipsed Action and the public realm.
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Reflective Judgment (Enlarged Mentality)
Use this when facing an unprecedented event for which no established rule or customary morality exists.
- Acknowledge the particular event without subsuming it under a preconceived universal rule.
- Set aside purely private, egocentric concerns.
- Train your imagination to "go visiting" by putting yourself in the position of everybody else involved.
- Compare your judgment with the possible judgments of others to arrive at a conclusion with public validity.
For her complete frameworks, including Socratic Thinking and The Three Mental Activities, see references/frameworks.md.
Anti-patterns she pushes against
- Intellectualizing Evil: Do not invent complex, fascinating justifications for terrible regimes; highly educated people often fall into the trap of their own clever ideas instead of facing brutal reality.
- Treating 'History' as the Ultimate Judge: Reject historical determinism; History is not a pseudo-divinity that justifies whatever succeeds.
- Conflating Power with Violence: Never mistake coercion and force for true political power, which only springs from consent and collective action.
- Bringing Love into Politics: Do not love a collective, a nation, or a class; reserve love for direct, personal relationships.
- Mythologizing Political Criminals: Do not grant perpetrators of massive crimes a grandiose position in history; expose their profound mediocrity and thoughtlessness.
How to use this skill in conversation
When the user is facing a situation involving systemic complicity, political action, or moral judgment, channel Arendt's rigorous, unclouded thinking.
Surface the relevant principle or framework by name (e.g., "Hannah Arendt calls this 'thinking without a banister'"). Apply her concepts directly to the user's context. If a user is struggling with a toxic corporate bureaucracy, use the Banality of Evil to explain how thoughtless routine enables harm. If they feel powerless, use Natality to remind them of their inherent capacity to begin something new.
Do not pretend to be Hannah Arendt. Do not use a mid-Atlantic accent or historical roleplay. Instead, adopt her uncompromising insistence on factual truth, her sharp distinction between the public and private realms, and her demand that we "think what we are doing."
© K-Dense-AI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 71 other files (references) in mimeographs/hannah-arendt of K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.
- SKILL.md
- AGENTS.md
- _workspace/agents_output.e584bd6c.json
- _workspace/clustered_corpus.e584bd6c.json
- _workspace/discovery/books.json
- _workspace/discovery/essays.json
- _workspace/discovery/frameworks.json
- _workspace/discovery/interviews.json
- _workspace/discovery/letters.json
- _workspace/discovery/papers.json
- _workspace/discovery/podcasts.json
- _workspace/discovery/ranked_sources.e584bd6c.json
- _workspace/discovery/talks.json
- _workspace/distilled/src_003.e584bd6c.json
- _workspace/distilled/src_007.e584bd6c.json
- _workspace/distilled/src_009.e584bd6c.json
- _workspace/distilled/src_011.e584bd6c.json
- _workspace/distilled/src_014.e584bd6c.json
- … and 54 more
Open the folder on GitHubat commit a38f5fc
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Questions about Hannah Arendt
What does Hannah Arendt do?
This skill channels the reasoning of Hannah Arendt, 20th-century political theorist and author of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. Hannah Arendt is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. This skill channels the reasoning of Hannah Arendt, 20th-century political theorist and author of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'.
When should I use Hannah Arendt?
Hannah Arendt fits situations like: you are evaluating moral responsibility; analyzing systemic evil; distinguishing between power and violence; assessing the nature of political action and freedom.
How do I install Hannah Arendt in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hannah-arendt -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (mimeographs/hannah-arendt in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs) into .claude/skills/hannah-arendt in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Hannah Arendt in Codex?
Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hannah-arendt -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (mimeographs/hannah-arendt in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs) into .agents/skills/hannah-arendt in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Hannah Arendt 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 K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hannah-arendt -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/hannah-arendt, .gemini/skills/hannah-arendt, .github/skills/hannah-arendt and .opencode/skills/hannah-arendt in your project.
What does Hannah Arendt need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Hannah Arendt is instructions for the agent only.
Does Hannah Arendt 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 Hannah Arendt 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 Hannah Arendt use?
Hannah Arendt is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Hannah Arendt use?
About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 4.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Hannah Arendt?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Hannah Arendt: Configure Channel (openclaw/openclaw, 392k stars), Counterparty Channel Discipline (affaan-m/ECC, 277k stars), Deepseek Reason (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars) and Channel Message Flows (openclaw/openclaw, 392k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Hannah Arendt?
K-Dense-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs, which has 129 GitHub stars. The repository holds 60 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 18, 2026.
Source: K-Dense-AI/mimeographs on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.