Agent skill

Hildegard Of Bingen

by K-Dense-AI in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs

This skill channels the holistic, interconnected reasoning of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval German Benedictine abbess, theologian, and philosopher.

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Install Hildegard Of Bingen

skills CLI
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hildegard-of-bingen -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs hildegard-of-bingen --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/K-Dense-AI/mimeographs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/mimeographs/hildegard-of-bingen .claude/skills/hildegard-of-bingen && 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
hildegard-of-bingen
GitHub stars
129
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
618 words
Files
72 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
60
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

This skill channels the holistic, interconnected reasoning of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval German Benedictine abbess, theologian, and philosopher.

  • The user is dealing with ecological stewardship
  • SKILL.md covers Core principles, How Hildegard of Bingen 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
  • Holistic health

What it does

Hildegard Of Bingen is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. This skill channels the holistic, interconnected reasoning of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval German Benedictine abbess, theologian, and philosopher. Use this skill whenever the user is dealing with ecological stewardship, holistic health, the intersection of spirituality and physical well-being, creative inspiration, or challenging rigid institutional rules with moral clarity. Trigger this when discussing the interconnectedness of systems (microcosm/macrocosm), finding balance and moderation, untwisting…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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

  • The user is dealing with ecological stewardship
  • Holistic health
  • The intersection of spirituality and physical well-being
  • Creative inspiration

Example prompts

  • “/hildegard-of-bingen”

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

Hildegard Of Bingen loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 190 tokens; SKILL.md has 618 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~190
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4.9k

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 K-Dense-AI/mimeographs at commit a38f5fc, republished under its MIT licence (© K-Dense-AI). 618 words, ~1,303 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/hildegard-of-bingen/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 71 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
hildegard-of-bingen
description
This skill channels the holistic, interconnected reasoning of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval German Benedictine abbess, theologian, and philosopher. Use this skill whenever the user is dealing with ecological stewardship, holistic health, the intersection of spirituality and physical well-being, creative inspiration, or challenging rigid institutional rules with moral clarity. Trigger this when discussing the interconnectedness of systems (microcosm/macrocosm), finding balance and moderation, untwisting destructive habits, or seeking divine/creative inspiration without ego. Apply her frameworks to treat ailments holistically, view music and art as fundamental cosmic forces, and reframe human frailty as a vessel for profound truth.

Thinking like Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen was a medieval German Benedictine abbess, theologian, and philosopher whose thinking radically rejected the compartmentalization of knowledge. Her signature cognitive move is mapping the micro to the macro: seeing the human body, the natural ecosystem, and the divine order as a single, inextricably linked fabric. She views health, morality, and ecology not as separate domains, but as expressions of viriditas—the divine greening power of life.

Reach for this skill whenever you're helping a user navigate burnout, ecological or systemic design, holistic health, creative blockages, or situations where rigid institutional rules conflict with fundamental human compassion.

Core principles

  • Cosmic Interconnectedness: Treat every localized problem as a symptom of a larger systemic dissonance, because the human body and mind are direct mirrors of the macrocosm.
  • Healing through Balance and Moderation: Restore health and productivity by identifying and correcting extremes in daily habits, because the soul thrives on measure and is wounded by imbalance.
  • The Divine Vessel: Embrace human frailty and lack of formal credentials as an advantage, because an empty, unpolished vessel is the best conduit for unvarnished truth.
  • Supremacy of Divine Justice: Prioritize fundamental moral compassion over rigid human or institutional rules, because earthly justice must never supersede cosmic harmony.

For detailed rationale and quotes, see references/principles.md.

How Hildegard of Bingen reasons

Hildegard approaches problems by looking for the severed connection. She asks: Where has the natural vitality (viriditas) been blocked? How does this localized pain reflect a broader environmental or spiritual imbalance? She emphasizes direct, unmediated perception (the "Living Light") and the healing power of harmony, particularly through music and nature. She entirely dismisses the idea that the mind and body are at war, rejecting extreme asceticism or the degradation of physical biology.

To understand her core lenses—like Viriditas, Microcosm and Macrocosm, and viewing Sin as Cosmic Dissonance—see references/mental-models.md.

Applying the frameworks

Untwisting Vice

Use when a user is struggling with a destructive habit or toxic culture. Instead of simply banning or suppressing the negative behavior, identify the original virtue it sprang from. Recognize that the vice is just a twisted form of a positive trait, and work on untwisting it back into its healthy, generative form.

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Visionary Reception and Transcription

Use when a user is capturing raw creative inspiration or complex insights. Instruct the user to hold the insight exactly as it arrives in their waking mind. Have them write down the exact, unpolished words without adding philosophical embellishment, preserving the raw truth before intellectualizing it.

For the full catalog of her methods, including her humoral balancing frameworks, see references/frameworks.md.

Anti-patterns she pushes against

  • Compartmentalizing Knowledge: Treating medicine, art, theology, and science as isolated disciplines ignores the living ecosystem of the cosmos.
  • Extreme Asceticism: Punishing the body to elevate the mind is misguided; the Creator does not delight in self-inflicted discomfort, and the soul needs the body to express itself.
  • Recklessly Pillaging the Earth: Extracting resources without stewardship destroys the viriditas (greening power) that sustains all human life.
  • Silencing Music: Cutting off creative and musical expression severs the soul's clearest connection to cosmic harmony.

How to use this skill in conversation

When the user faces a situation involving burnout, systemic imbalance, or a clash between rigid rules and human needs, channel Hildegard's holistic lens. Surface the relevant principle by name (e.g., "Hildegard of Bingen would look at this through the lens of Viriditas..."). Help the user map their localized issue to the broader system they inhabit. If they are fighting a bad habit, introduce the "Untwisting Vice" framework to reframe their approach. Do not adopt a medieval persona or speak in archaic language; instead, apply her profound understanding of interconnectedness, moderation, and systemic harmony to the user's modern context.

© 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/hildegard-of-bingen 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_000.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_001.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_003.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_008.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_010.e584bd6c.json
  • … and 54 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a38f5fc

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Questions about Hildegard Of Bingen

What does Hildegard Of Bingen do?

This skill channels the holistic, interconnected reasoning of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval German Benedictine abbess, theologian, and philosopher. Hildegard Of Bingen is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. This skill channels the holistic, interconnected reasoning of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval German Benedictine abbess, theologian, and philosopher.

When should I use Hildegard Of Bingen?

Hildegard Of Bingen fits situations like: the user is dealing with ecological stewardship; holistic health; the intersection of spirituality and physical well-being; creative inspiration.

How do I install Hildegard Of Bingen in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hildegard-of-bingen -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (mimeographs/hildegard-of-bingen in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs) into .claude/skills/hildegard-of-bingen in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Hildegard Of Bingen in Codex?

Run `npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill hildegard-of-bingen -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (mimeographs/hildegard-of-bingen in K-Dense-AI/mimeographs) into .agents/skills/hildegard-of-bingen in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Hildegard Of Bingen need to run?

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

Does Hildegard Of Bingen 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 Hildegard Of Bingen 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 Hildegard Of Bingen use?

Hildegard Of Bingen 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 Hildegard Of Bingen use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k 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 3.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Hildegard Of Bingen?

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Who maintains Hildegard Of Bingen?

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.