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Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Applies the reasoning of Mary Wollstonecraft (18th-century English philosopher and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) to evaluate situations involving power dynamics, education…

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Install Mary Wollstonecraft

skills CLI
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill mary-wollstonecraft -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs mary-wollstonecraft --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/mary-wollstonecraft .claude/skills/mary-wollstonecraft && 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
mary-wollstonecraft
GitHub stars
129
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
600 words
Files
72 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
60
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Applies the reasoning of Mary Wollstonecraft (18th-century English philosopher and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) to evaluate situations involving power dynamics, education…

  • Works in 4 steps: Strip away prevailing prejudices,… → Ask plain, axiomatic questions about… → Set these simple axioms alongside the… → …
  • Claude encounters career trade-offs involving financial dependence
  • SKILL.md covers Core principles, How Mary Wollstonecraft 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

Mary Wollstonecraft is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. Applies the reasoning of Mary Wollstonecraft (18th-century English philosopher and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) to evaluate situations involving power dynamics, education, independence, gender roles, and systemic inequality. Use this skill whenever Claude encounters career trade-offs involving financial dependence, analyzing structural oppression, questioning societal norms, or balancing reason against emotion. It helps dismantle arbitrary hierarchies, prioritize rational capability over…

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

  • Claude encounters career trade-offs involving financial dependence
  • Analyzing structural oppression
  • Questioning societal norms
  • Balancing reason against emotion

Example prompts

  • “Use the mary-wollstonecraft skill to apply the reasoning of Mary Wollstonecraft (18th-century English philosopher and author of A Vindication of the…”
  • “/mary-wollstonecraft”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Strip away prevailing prejudices, artificial manners, and appeals to tradition.
  2. Ask plain, axiomatic questions about fundamental human nature (e.g., what makes a human virtuous or independent?).
  3. Set these simple axioms alongside the deviations that current circumstances and customs have brought.
  4. Build your arguments on these foundational truths rather than accepting what is merely "expedient" or historically accepted.

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

Mary Wollstonecraft loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 152 tokens; SKILL.md has 600 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~152
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
~4.3k

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). 600 words, ~1,255 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/mary-wollstonecraft/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 71 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
mary-wollstonecraft
description
Applies the reasoning of Mary Wollstonecraft (18th-century English philosopher and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) to evaluate situations involving power dynamics, education, independence, gender roles, and systemic inequality. Use this skill whenever Claude encounters career trade-offs involving financial dependence, analyzing structural oppression, questioning societal norms, or balancing reason against emotion. It helps dismantle arbitrary hierarchies, prioritize rational capability over superficial elegance, and frame personal struggles as political realities.

Thinking like Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th-century English philosopher whose thought laid the groundwork for modern feminism and human rights. Her signature cognitive move is stripping away the veneer of "custom" and "tradition" to reveal the underlying power dynamics of dependence and arbitrary rule. She views human capability not as an innate biological destiny, but as the direct product of education, environment, and social structure.

Reach for this skill whenever you're helping a user navigate power imbalances, financial dependence, relationship equality, or the tension between rational judgment and emotional impulse.

Core principles

  • Rational Education as the Foundation of Equality: Cultivate practical, applied knowledge and physical strength, because without rational education, individuals become mere ornaments incapable of virtue.
  • True Freedom as Independence from Arbitrary Power: Contract your wants and secure your own subsistence, because relying on the goodwill or caprice of another destroys personal dignity and renders you unfree.
  • The Primacy of Reason for Virtue: Base decisions on rational judgment rather than being blown about by excessive emotion, because reason is the fundamental trait that elevates human beings.
  • The Social Construction of Identity: Recognize that differences in capability are often the result of corrupt societal conditioning and unequal education, not innate flaws.

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

How Mary Wollstonecraft reasons

Wollstonecraft reasons by dismantling "prescription" (historical precedent). When presented with a societal norm or a personal dilemma involving power, she immediately asks: Does this arrangement cultivate independent reason, or does it demand blind obedience? She rejects the idea that anyone should be subject to the arbitrary will of another, even if that master is kind.

She frequently employs the mental model of Neo-Roman Liberty, viewing any forced reliance as a master/slave dynamic. She also applies the lens of Subjectivity Construction, recognizing that oppressive systems train the oppressed to desire their own subordination. For a full list of her conceptual lenses, see references/mental-models.md.

Applying the frameworks

Show full SKILL.md (281 more words)Show less
First Principles Questioning

Use this when societal prejudices, customs, or arguments of "expediency" cloud rational judgment.

  1. Strip away prevailing prejudices, artificial manners, and appeals to tradition.
  2. Ask plain, axiomatic questions about fundamental human nature (e.g., what makes a human virtuous or independent?).
  3. Set these simple axioms alongside the deviations that current circumstances and customs have brought.
  4. Build your arguments on these foundational truths rather than accepting what is merely "expedient" or historically accepted.

For the full catalog, see references/frameworks.md.

Anti-patterns she pushes against

  • Financial dependence on others: Relying on someone else for survival produces subservience and functions as a form of legal prostitution.
  • Elevating sensibility over reason: Allowing aesthetic sensibilities or fleeting emotions to obscure rational judgment makes individuals the prey of their senses.
  • Submitting to historical precedent: Using the sheer length of time an injustice has existed as an excuse to avoid testing it against abstract principles of reason.
  • Cultivating "pretty folly": Glorying in weakness or voluntarily surrendering rational agency to appear desirable or compliant to those in power.

How to use this skill in conversation

When the user is facing a situation involving power dynamics, career trade-offs, or relational inequality, surface the relevant Wollstonecraft principle by name. For example, if a user is considering staying in a restrictive job because the boss is "nice," apply the Neo-Roman Liberty model to explain that being subject to arbitrary power is still unfreedom, regardless of the master's kindness.

Cite where the idea comes from (e.g., "Mary Wollstonecraft frames this as..."). Avoid impersonation — don't pretend to be her or speak in 18th-century prose. Instead, channel her fierce, uncompromising demand for rational independence, equality, and the dismantling of arbitrary hierarchies.

© 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/mary-wollstonecraft 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_008.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_009.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_013.e584bd6c.json
  • … and 54 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a38f5fc

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Questions about Mary Wollstonecraft

What does Mary Wollstonecraft do?

Applies the reasoning of Mary Wollstonecraft (18th-century English philosopher and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) to evaluate situations involving power dynamics, education…. Mary Wollstonecraft is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. Applies the reasoning of Mary Wollstonecraft (18th-century English philosopher and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) to evaluate situations involving power dynamics, education, independence, gender roles, and systemic inequality.

When should I use Mary Wollstonecraft?

Mary Wollstonecraft fits situations like: Claude encounters career trade-offs involving financial dependence; analyzing structural oppression; questioning societal norms; balancing reason against emotion.

How do I install Mary Wollstonecraft in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Mary Wollstonecraft in Codex?

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

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

What does Mary Wollstonecraft need to run?

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

Does Mary Wollstonecraft 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 Mary Wollstonecraft 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 Mary Wollstonecraft use?

Mary Wollstonecraft 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 Mary Wollstonecraft use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k 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 3k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Mary Wollstonecraft?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Mary Wollstonecraft: Deepseek Reason (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars), Simplified English (paperclipai/paperclip, 100k stars), Simple English (moeru-ai/airi, 50k stars) and Ejentum Reasoning Harness (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Mary Wollstonecraft?

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.