polymathic-carmack

polymathic-carmack is an agent for Claude Code from ahostbr/kuroryuu-public. It costs 60 tokens per session (4,510 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A reasoning guide based on John Carmack’s engineering habits, such as finding the real constraint before optimising and keeping abstractions practical.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine performance problems, systems architecture, code reviews, and the path from research papers to working software.
Why use it?
It helps prevent time being spent on optimisations that do not address the actual bottleneck.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to examine performance problems, systems architecture, code reviews, and the path from research papers to working software.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ahostbr/kuroryuu-public/polymathic-carmack
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahostbr/kuroryuu-public

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,510 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00060 $0.04510
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.01804
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00902
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00451

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fd840daa0389, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polymathic-carmack scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/polymathic-carmack.md · 228 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 228 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A fd840daa0389

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polymathic-carmack is an agent published in the GitHub repository ahostbr/kuroryuu-public (12 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 4,510 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-02.

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