Agent skill

Simone De Beauvoir

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

Applies the existentialist and feminist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author of The Second Sex.

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Install Simone De Beauvoir

skills CLI
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/mimeographs --skill simone-de-beauvoir -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install K-Dense-AI/mimeographs simone-de-beauvoir --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/simone-de-beauvoir .claude/skills/simone-de-beauvoir && 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
simone-de-beauvoir
GitHub stars
129
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
759 words
Files
72 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
60
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Applies the existentialist and feminist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author of The Second Sex.

  • Works in 4 steps: Acknowledge the inherent ambiguity: you… → Accept responsibility for your choices,… → Consider the effects of your actions on… → …
  • This skill for questions about freedom versus responsibility
  • SKILL.md covers Core principles, How Simone de Beauvoir 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

Simone De Beauvoir is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. Applies the existentialist and feminist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author of The Second Sex. Reach for this skill whenever the user is grappling with existential dilemmas, moral ambiguity, gender dynamics, societal expectations, or relationship ethics. Trigger this skill for questions about freedom versus responsibility, bodily autonomy, marginalization, or when the user feels trapped by external labels or "immanence." Use this to help the user reclaim their agency, recognize the…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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

  • This skill for questions about freedom versus responsibility
  • Bodily autonomy
  • Marginalization
  • The user feels trapped by external labels

Example prompts

  • “immanence.”
  • “Use the simone-de-beauvoir skill to apply the existentialist and feminist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author of The…”
  • “/simone-de-beauvoir”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Acknowledge the inherent ambiguity: you are a free subject but also an object shaped by your environment.
  2. Accept responsibility for your choices, knowing each opens some possibilities and closes others.
  3. Consider the effects of your actions on others, respecting their dual nature.
  4. Act to promote the freedom of all, as personal freedom is intertwined with the freedom of others.

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

Simone De Beauvoir loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 172 tokens; SKILL.md has 759 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~172
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~6k

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). 759 words, ~1,519 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/simone-de-beauvoir/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 71 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
simone-de-beauvoir
description
Applies the existentialist and feminist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author of The Second Sex. Reach for this skill whenever the user is grappling with existential dilemmas, moral ambiguity, gender dynamics, societal expectations, or relationship ethics. Trigger this skill for questions about freedom versus responsibility, bodily autonomy, marginalization, or when the user feels trapped by external labels or "immanence." Use this to help the user reclaim their agency, recognize the social construction of their situation, and make authentic choices that expand their transcendence while respecting the interconnected freedom of others.

Thinking like Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was a foundational French existentialist philosopher and feminist theorist, best known for The Second Sex and The Ethics of Ambiguity. Her thinking is defined by the radical assertion that human beings have no fixed essence—we are radically free, yet situated in concrete, often oppressive material realities. She views life not as a search for happiness or adherence to absolute rules, but as an ongoing project of "transcendence" where we must continuously invent our own values while navigating the heavy weight of societal conditioning.

Reach for this skill whenever you're helping a user navigate moral ambiguity, untangle societal or gendered expectations, evaluate relationship dynamics, or reclaim their agency from oppressive structures.

Core principles

  • The Social Construction of Gender: Recognize that roles and behaviors are not biological destinies but societal impositions ("One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman").
  • Interconnected Freedom: Treat individual freedom as meaningless unless it actively promotes and intersects with the freedom of others.
  • Existence Precedes Essence: Reject predefined purposes; accept the heavy responsibility of inventing your own goals without external guarantees.
  • Transcendence as the Justification of Existence: Push towards freely chosen projects that expand into an open future, refusing to stagnate in given conditions (immanence).
  • The Unity of Morality and Freedom: Assume the ambiguity of human existence; to will oneself moral is to will oneself free.

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

How Simone de Beauvoir reasons

Beauvoir reasons by stripping away the illusion of "natural" or "essential" traits. When presented with a situation, she first asks: Who benefits from defining this as 'natural'? She examines the concrete, lived reality of the marginalized (the "Other") rather than relying on abstract, universal ideals. She emphasizes Transcendence vs. Immanence, looking at whether a choice expands a person's future or traps them in repetitive stagnation. She dismisses appeals to subjective "happiness" or absolute "Causes," evaluating situations strictly by the concrete liberty they afford individuals. She frequently applies the lens of The Other to understand how dominant groups consolidate power by defining themselves as the essential Subject and marginalized groups as the inessential object.

For her complete set of analytical lenses, see references/mental-models.md.

Applying the frameworks

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Use this when navigating complex moral decisions without clear right/wrong answers.

  1. Acknowledge the inherent ambiguity: you are a free subject but also an object shaped by your environment.
  2. Accept responsibility for your choices, knowing each opens some possibilities and closes others.
  3. Consider the effects of your actions on others, respecting their dual nature.
  4. Act to promote the freedom of all, as personal freedom is intertwined with the freedom of others.
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Existentialist Analysis of a Situation

Use this to untangle how a person's independence has been compromised by societal structures.

  1. Examine the physiological, psychological, and economic forces claimed to determine their destiny.
  2. Trace how the concept of their "role" was historically fashioned by a dominant group.
  3. Describe the lived world strictly from the perspective of the oppressed.
  4. Envisage the specific difficulties in their way as they attempt to escape their assigned sphere.

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

Anti-patterns she pushes against

  • Fleeing Freedom (The Spirit of Seriousness): Submerging your freedom into an external absolute (like the Military, Humanity, or God) to avoid the anxiety of authentic choice.
  • Biological Determinism / Essentialism: Believing that gender roles, passivity, or societal positions are innate rather than socially imposed constructs.
  • Evaluating by 'Happiness': Using subjective "happiness" as a metric for societal good instead of concrete liberty; oppressors use happiness to justify subjection.
  • Traditional Marriage and Permanent Monogamy: Committing to lifebound contracts that demand exclusivity at the expense of individual freedom and the self's process of becoming.
  • Nominalism: Claiming we are all just "human beings" to ignore the concrete reality of sexual difference and lived bodily experience.

How to use this skill in conversation

When the user is facing societal pressure, moral dilemmas, or relationship constraints, channel Beauvoir's existentialist lens. Surface the relevant principle or framework by name (e.g., "Simone de Beauvoir frames this as the tension between Transcendence and Immanence"). Help the user identify where they might be falling into "bad faith" or accepting a label imposed by the "Subject." Do not pretend to be Beauvoir or speak in the first person. Instead, apply her rigorous demand for authenticity: ask the user how they can assume their freedom, remind them that their situation is constructed (and therefore changeable), and challenge them to make choices that expand both their own transcendence and the liberty of others.

© 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/simone-de-beauvoir 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_005.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_006.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_008.e584bd6c.json
  • _workspace/distilled/src_015.e584bd6c.json
  • … and 54 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a38f5fc

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Questions about Simone De Beauvoir

What does Simone De Beauvoir do?

Applies the existentialist and feminist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author of The Second Sex. Simone De Beauvoir is an agent skill from K-Dense-AI/mimeographs. Applies the existentialist and feminist philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author of The Second Sex.

When should I use Simone De Beauvoir?

Simone De Beauvoir fits situations like: this skill for questions about freedom versus responsibility; bodily autonomy; marginalization; the user feels trapped by external labels.

How do I install Simone De Beauvoir in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Simone De Beauvoir in Codex?

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

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

What does Simone De Beauvoir need to run?

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

Does Simone De Beauvoir 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 Simone De Beauvoir 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 Simone De Beauvoir use?

Simone De Beauvoir 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 Simone De Beauvoir use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.1k 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 4.5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Simone De Beauvoir?

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.