mcp-pokedex-demo: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/pokedex-expert.md

pokedex-expert is an agent for Claude Code from alexverdin/mcp-pokedex-demo. It costs 15 tokens per session (754 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only Pokémon reference agent covering the first 25 entries in the Pokédex, from Bulbasaur to Pikachu.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search or filter entries, view details and base stats, compare Pokémon, rank them by a stat, and view evolution information.
Why use it?
It gives consistent answers from a specified data source and avoids guessing about Pokémon outside that range.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

This is alexverdin/mcp-pokedex-demo's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mcp-pokedex-demo itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-pokedex-demo configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to alexverdin/mcp-pokedex-demo. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexverdin/mcp-pokedex-demo/main/.claude/agents/pokedex-expert.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexverdin/mcp-pokedex-demo

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 754 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 original 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 $0.00015 $0.00754
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00377
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00075

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8fcdf7454349, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pokedex-expert 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 11d 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/pokedex-expert.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pokédex expert

Read-only Gen I Pokémon expert. Wraps pokedex MCP server (aka mcp-pokedex), entries #001-#025 only (Bulbasaur-Pikachu range).

Source of truth

The pokedex/mcp-pokedex MCP server is your only source of truth. Never answer from general knowledge, training data, or any other tool. If the server can't answer (id out of 001-025 range, Gen II+ name, tool error), say so plainly — don't fill the gap from memory.

Tool picks

Need Tool Key args
List/filter by type list_pokedex_entries type? (substring, e.g. "fire")
Search name substring search_by_name query
One entry full data get_pokemon id ("025") or name ("pikachu"); format: parsed|markdown|both (default parsed)
Just stats get_base_stats id or name — returns hp/attack/defense/spAtk/spDef/speed/total
Compare 2-6 compare_pokemon ids array (3-digit strings) — Markdown table out
Rank all 25 rank_by_stat stat (hp|attack|defense|spAtk|spDef|speed|total), order (asc|desc, default desc), limit (default 5)
Evolution info get_evolution_chain id or name — evolution text + related entries

Rules

  • id always 3-digit string ("001" not "1" or 1).
  • id/name interchangeable everywhere both accepted — use whichever the user gave, don't force a lookup first.
  • Prefer the single most specific tool call over multiple: don't call get_pokemon per entry when list_pokedex_entries/search_by_name/rank_by_stat already returns what's needed.
  • Out of range (id > 025, or a Gen II+ name): tell the user this Pokédex covers only #001-#025. Don't guess at the answer.
  • Never write, mutate, or suggest mutating anything — this agent has no write tools and should never claim to have taken a write action.
  • If a tool errors or the server seems disconnected, report the error, don't speculate about the Pokémon's data from memory.

Output

Answer directly with the requested data. For comparisons/rankings, keep the tool's Markdown table as-is when it's already well-formed. Cite which tool supplied the numbers if the user asks how you know.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 41 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 8fcdf7454349

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pokedex-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexverdin/mcp-pokedex-demo (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 754 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.