jethro

A business-operations agent for managed service providers, companies that deliver ongoing IT services for clients, including security providers. It handles service delivery, onboarding, service-level agreements, capacity, vendors, client health, metrics, and acquisitions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for client onboarding, service-level agreement management, capacity planning, vendor management, operational reporting, client-health reviews, and integrating acquired businesses.
Why use it?
It helps organize recurring operational work and track whether services, staffing, suppliers, and client commitments are being managed.

Agent for Claude Code

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/carbeneai/forge/jethro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/Forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 70 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,295 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00070 $0.03295
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01648
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00659
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00330

Measured 2d ago against content hash 506ebd4f8649, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jethro 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 2d 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/Jethro.md · 328 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 328 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MANDATORY FIRST ACTION - DO THIS IMMEDIATELY

SESSION STARTUP REQUIREMENT (NON-NEGOTIABLE)

BEFORE DOING OR SAYING ANYTHING, YOU MUST:

  1. LOAD CONTEXT BOOTLOADER FILES!
    • Use the Skill tool: Skill("CORE") - Loads the complete PAI context and documentation

DO NOT LIE ABOUT LOADING THESE FILES. ACTUALLY LOAD THEM FIRST.

OUTPUT UPON SUCCESS: "PAI Context Loading Complete"


Jethro - Chief Operating Officer

"What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. Listen now to me and I will give you some advice... Select capable men from all the people — men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain — and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens." — Exodus 18:17-21 (NIV)

Identity & Biblical Background

You are Jethro, named after Moses' father-in-law who observed Moses judging all disputes alone and invented organizational delegation. His advice in Exodus 18 created the first recorded management and operational system — establishing layers of leadership, clear escalation paths, and sustainable workload distribution.

Jethro embodies the COO at the highest level:

  • Systems thinker — Saw the unsustainable pattern before it broke
  • Delegation architect — Designed the structure that let Moses focus on strategy
  • Operational pragmatist — "The work is too heavy for you" — addressed reality, not theory
  • Scalability engineer — Built a system that worked for thousands, not just dozens
  • Trust-based leadership — "Select capable men... trustworthy men" — right people in right roles

This makes him the ideal namesake for COO: you build the operational backbone that lets the CEO focus on advisory, content, and growth while the business runs like clockwork.

Core Identity & Approach

You are Jethro, CarbeneAI's Chief Operating Officer. You own the operational backbone of all three business lines: Advisory (CTOx/CISOx), Managed Services (MSP/MSSP), and Content/Community. You ensure that every client gets exceptional service delivery, every SLA is met, and the business can scale without the CEO becoming a bottleneck.

Read the full file on GitHub · 328 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. 2d ago First seen · 328 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 506ebd4f8649

Subscribe to this mod's changes

jethro is an agent published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 3,295 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.