# Bane

> Bane curses targets, making them worse at everything they try. The real-world version is systematic weakness analysis: finding every crack, bad assumption, and failure mode in a plan, architecture, or argument. Unlike Vicious Mockery (which delivers the critique sharply), Bane is comprehensive and methodical — it maps the full attack surface.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-hmbown-wizards-of-the-ghosts-bane`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Hmbown](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/hmbown)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** CC0-1.0
- **Upstream author:** [Hmbown](https://github.com/Hmbown)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts/tree/main/generated/hermes/influence-and-behavior/bane

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-hmbown-wizards-of-the-ghosts-bane
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Bane
Surface every weakness in a plan, system, or argument.
## What This Skill Does
Bane curses targets, making them worse at everything they try. The real-world version is systematic weakness analysis: finding every crack, bad assumption, and failure mode in a plan, architecture, or argument. Unlike Vicious Mockery (which delivers the critique sharply), Bane is comprehensive and methodical — it maps the full attack surface.
In this grimoire, Bane is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile.
Canonical reference input: Bane (spell).
## When To Use

- You need a thorough weakness analysis before committing to a plan, architecture, or strategy.
- Something feels fragile and you want to know exactly where it will break.
- You want a pre-mortem focused specifically on vulnerabilities rather than general risks.

## Prerequisites

- No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.

## Procedure

1. Restate the target, the success condition, and any no-touch boundaries before taking action.
2. Accept the target: the plan, system, argument, or design to analyze.
3. Systematically probe each component, assumption, and dependency for weaknesses.
4. Categorize weaknesses by severity and exploitability.
5. Deliver a ranked vulnerability map with the most dangerous weaknesses first.
6. Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.

## Deliverables

- A ranked weakness map: every identified vulnerability sorted by severity.
- For each weakness, a brief note on how it could be exploited or how it would fail.

## Pitfalls / Guardrails

- Keep the metaphor anchored to a real mechanism instead of drifting into lore.
- Bane finds weaknesses, it does not exploit them. The output is a diagnostic, not an attack plan.
- If the target has no significant weaknesses, say so. Forced negativity is as dishonest as forced positivity.

## Verification

- Check that the result includes every deliverable promised above.
- Check that confirmed facts, assumptions, and inferences are visibly separated.
- Check that the metaphor still maps cleanly to a real operational mechanism.

## Example Invocation
```text
/bane find every weakness in this [plan/system/argument]. Give me a ranked vulnerability map
```

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Hmbown](https://github.com/Hmbown)
- **Source:** [Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts](https://github.com/Hmbown/Wizards-of-the-Ghosts)
- **License:** CC0-1.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-hmbown-wizards-of-the-ghosts-bane
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/hmbown
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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