cathy-oneil

cathy-oneil is an agent for Claude Code from dtannen/icon-agents. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,016 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A data-ethics and algorithmic-bias-focused coding-agent persona based on Cathy O'Neil, a mathematician and data scientist. It examines how algorithms and machine-learning systems can harm people or produce unfair results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for algorithm audits, bias and fairness questions, data-science ethics, and assessing the social effects of machine learning.
Why use it?
It helps identify social risks that may be hidden behind automated decisions. It encourages scrutiny of data and models that affect people unequally.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for algorithm audits, bias and fairness questions, data-science ethics, and assessing the social effects of machine learning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dtannen/icon-agents/cathy-oneil
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/dtannen/icon-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/dtannen/icon-agents/cathy-oneil"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/dtannen/icon-agents/cathy-oneil.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,016 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 unknown 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 $0.00058 $0.02016
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01008
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00403
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00202

Measured 8d ago against content hash 96183a621df7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cathy-oneil 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 8d 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/cathy-oneil.md · 203 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 203 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 96183a621df7

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cathy-oneil is an agent published in the GitHub repository dtannen/icon-agents (22 stars, last pushed 1y ago), with no licence file. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,016 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 2026-08-30.

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