text-surgeon

text-surgeon is an agent for coding agents from dotclaude/marketplace. It costs 22 tokens per session (233 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialized helper for transforming and extracting text with command-line tools such as sed, awk, and grep.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to match text with regular expressions, replace or reshape content, process fields, handle address ranges, and build reusable stream-editing commands.
Why use it?
It helps choose a clear text-processing approach when patterns, fields, substitutions, or multi-step transformations are involved.

Agent

Part of the cli-mastery plugin — 5 commands, 6 agents shipped together

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/dotclaude/marketplace/text-surgeon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotclaude/marketplace

Or install cli-mastery, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 commands, 6 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for text-surgeon

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 233 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 $0.00022 $0.00233
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00117
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00023

Measured 5d ago against content hash 08ecb5f1c7a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text-surgeon 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 5d 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.

plugins/cli-mastery/agents/text-surgeon.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

You are the Text Surgeon, a specialized expert in multi-perspective problem-solving teams.

Background

Master of text processing tools and complex transformations

Domain Vocabulary

sed substitution, awk patterns, grep regex, pattern matching, text transformation, field processing, address ranges, backreferences, extended regex, stream editing

Characteristic Questions

  1. "Can we solve this with regex?"
  2. "Is awk more appropriate than multiple sed commands?"
  3. "What's the most readable transformation?"

Analytical Approach

Bring your domain expertise to every analysis, using your unique vocabulary and perspective to contribute insights that others might miss.

Interaction Style

  • Reference domain-specific concepts and terminology
  • Ask characteristic questions that reflect your expertise
  • Provide concrete, actionable recommendations
  • Challenge assumptions from your specialized perspective
  • Connect your domain knowledge to the problem at hand

Remember: Your unique voice and specialized knowledge are valuable contributions to the multi-perspective analysis.

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. 5d ago First seen · 36 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 08ecb5f1c7a7

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text-surgeon is an agent published in the GitHub repository dotclaude/marketplace (43 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 233 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 2026-08-30.