Agent skill

War Strategies Reference

by NovusEdge in NovusEdge/palpatine

Looks up the 33 numbered war strategies by list, number, keyword or situation from a bundled JSON index.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install War Strategies Reference

skills CLI
$ npx skills add NovusEdge/palpatine --skill war -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install NovusEdge/palpatine war --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/NovusEdge/palpatine.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/palpatine/skills/war .claude/skills/war && 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
war
GitHub stars
110
Token cost
~787 tokens
SKILL.md length
308 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Looks up the 33 numbered war strategies by list, number, keyword or situation from a bundled JSON index.

  • Works in 12 steps: Declare War on Your Enemies (Polarity) → Do Not Fight the Last War (Guerrilla-Mind) → Presence of Mind (Counterbalance) → …
  • Browsing the full list of 33 strategies
  • SKILL.md covers Usage, Quick Lookup, Output Format and Thematic Groups, plus 1 more section
  • Calls rg

What it does

A lookup tool for 33 numbered war strategies, each with a name, a short code name and an essence line. It is invoked through the plugin's war command in Claude Code or Codex: no argument lists all 33, a number shows that strategy, and a keyword or a situation such as being outnumbered searches the index.

Lookups read references/war_index.json, resolved relative to the skill folder rather than your working directory, using rg with grep as a fallback. The strategies are grouped into self-directed, team, defensive, offensive and unconventional sets, and a single strategy is printed as a numbered title followed by its essence.

When your agent uses it

  • Browsing the full list of 33 strategies
  • Looking up a strategy by its number
  • Finding a strategy by keyword or by the situation you are in

Example prompts

  • “/palpatine:war 4”
  • “Search the war strategies for what to do when we are outnumbered.”
  • “List all 33 strategies grouped by theme.”

Requirements

  • ripgrep (rg) or grep to search the index

Workflow steps

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

  1. Declare War on Your Enemies (Polarity)
  2. Do Not Fight the Last War (Guerrilla-Mind)
  3. Presence of Mind (Counterbalance)
  4. Create Urgency (Death-Ground)
  5. Avoid Groupthink (Command-and-Control)
  6. Segment Your Forces (Controlled-Chaos)
  7. Transform War into Crusade (Morale)
  8. Pick Battles Carefully (Perfect-Economy)
  9. Turn the Tables (Counterattack)
  10. Make Defense a Pleasure (Deterrence)
  11. Lose Battles but Win the War (Grand Strategy)
  12. Know Your Enemy (Intelligence)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 53a3ac4. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • rg

    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

War Strategies Reference loads about 787 tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 23 tokens; SKILL.md has 308 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~23
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~787
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.6k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 308 words (~787 tokens).

“Invoke with Claude Code /palpatine:war or /palpatine:war , or Codex $palpatine:war or $palpatine:war .”

— opening of SKILL.md by NovusEdge, Custom licence
name
war

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in plugins/palpatine/skills/war of NovusEdge/palpatine.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/war_index.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 53a3ac4

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Questions about War Strategies Reference

What does War Strategies Reference do?

Looks up the 33 numbered war strategies by list, number, keyword or situation from a bundled JSON index. A lookup tool for 33 numbered war strategies, each with a name, a short code name and an essence line. It is invoked through the plugin's war command in Claude Code or Codex: no argument lists all 33, a number shows that strategy, and a keyword or a situation such as being outnumbered searches the index.

When should I use War Strategies Reference?

War Strategies Reference fits situations like: browsing the full list of 33 strategies; looking up a strategy by its number; finding a strategy by keyword or by the situation you are in.

How do I install War Strategies Reference in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add NovusEdge/palpatine --skill war -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/palpatine/skills/war in NovusEdge/palpatine) into .claude/skills/war in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install War Strategies Reference in Codex?

Run `npx skills add NovusEdge/palpatine --skill war -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/palpatine/skills/war in NovusEdge/palpatine) into .agents/skills/war in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use War Strategies Reference 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 NovusEdge/palpatine --skill war -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/war, .gemini/skills/war, .github/skills/war and .opencode/skills/war in your project.

What does War Strategies Reference need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, War Strategies Reference needs the command-line tools its instructions call (rg). Our summary lists: ripgrep (rg) or grep to search the index.

Does War Strategies Reference 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 War Strategies Reference 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 War Strategies Reference use?

War Strategies Reference has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does War Strategies Reference use?

About 787 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. Its references folder adds about 2.8k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains War Strategies Reference?

NovusEdge (a GitHub user) maintains it in NovusEdge/palpatine, which has 110 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 14, 2026.

Source: NovusEdge/palpatine on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.