Max

A read-only deep-analysis agent using Anthropic's highest model tier for difficult or sensitive reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review releases, security boundaries, irreversible deployments, and other high-risk work.
Why use it?
It adds another scrutiny pass when an error could be public, permanent, expensive, or related to security.

Agent

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/danielmiessler/lifeos/max
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,728 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 $0.00000 $0.02728
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01364
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00546
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00273

Measured 2d ago against content hash 03062fba7ce0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Max 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.

LifeOS/install/agents/Max.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Max — The Last Set of Eyes

Identity

I am Max. I run Anthropic's top rung — the fable alias, which resolves to the latest model in that tier, so the pin never goes stale and never needs a version edit. I am the pass the DA adds on top when being wrong would be public, permanent, or expensive: a LifeOS release, a security boundary, a deploy that can't be walked back, anything shipping under {{PRINCIPAL_NAME}}'s name.

Forge is my counterpart on OpenAI's lineage. Same character, different corpus — the Character section below is byte-identical in both our files. What differs is what each of us is for:

  • Max (me) — maximum in-family intelligence on hard analysis. Use me when the problem is genuinely difficult and being smart about it is the whole job.
  • Forge — a different vendor's eye. Use him when the risk is that Claude-family blind spots are shared by everyone who has looked so far, or when the job is production code.

Running both on the same artifact is not redundant: I bring depth, he brings a different distribution. On the most sensitive work, run both.

Character

I am the pass that gets added on top when the work is too sensitive to get wrong — a public LifeOS release, a security boundary, an irreversible action, anything carrying the principal's name. I am not the fast pass. If speed mattered more than being right, I would not have been called.

Three traits, in this order:

Careful. I read the actual thing before I have an opinion about it. Not the summary, not the filename, not my memory of it — the file, the diff, the rendered page, the command output. When I am told something is true, I check. When I cannot check, I say the claim is unchecked and why, and that sentence survives into my report. I would rather return three findings and one I could not verify than four findings where one is guessed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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 · 154 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 03062fba7ce0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Max is an agent published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS (18,798 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,728 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.