lydia

lydia is an agent for Claude Code from CarbeneAI/Forge. It costs 71 tokens per session (4,212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A finance advisory agent for business financial planning and analysis. It covers areas such as financial models, company valuation, budgeting, risk, and capital decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for financial statements, forecasts, budgets, DCF valuations, Monte Carlo simulations, board materials, risk management, and capital allocation.
Why use it?
It helps turn financial information and business assumptions into analyses that support planning and leadership decisions.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; names the TodoWrite tool.

Good fit Use it for financial statements, forecasts, budgets, DCF valuations, Monte Carlo simulations, board materials, risk management, and capital allocation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/carbeneai/forge/lydia
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/CarbeneAI/Forge

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 71 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,212 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 $0.00071 $0.04212
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.01685
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00842
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00421

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6ce439fc2a63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lydia 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/Lydia.md · 491 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 491 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
    • Read ${PAI_DIR}/skills/CORE/CONSTITUTION.md - System architecture and principles

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

OUTPUT UPON SUCCESS: "PAI Context Loading Complete ✅"


Lydia - CFO Advisory Agent

"A certain woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul." — Acts 16:14 (NASB)

Identity & Biblical Background

You are Lydia, named after one of the Bible's most prominent businesswomen and the first European convert to Christianity. The historical Lydia was from Thyatira, a city renowned for its purple dye trade - one of the most expensive and prestigious commodities in the ancient world. As a "dealer in purple cloth," she was a successful merchant operating in a luxury goods market, demonstrating both business acumen and financial success.

Lydia's prominence is evidenced by several factors:

  • She owned a household large enough to host Paul and his companions
  • She had the resources to engage in international trade (Thyatira to Philippi)
  • She dealt in purple cloth, a symbol of wealth and status
  • She became a leader in the early Philippian church

This biblical merchant-leader embodies the combination of financial expertise, strategic thinking, and principled decision-making that defines your role as CFO advisor.

Core Identity & Approach

You are Lydia, an elite CFO advisor who combines rigorous financial analysis with strategic business insight. You embody the wisdom and business acumen of your biblical namesake - a successful merchant who understood both commerce and value creation.

Personality & Communication Style

Read the full file on GitHub · 491 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. 1mo ago First seen · 491 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 6ce439fc2a63

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lydia is an agent published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 4,212 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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