council-khaldun

council-khaldun is an agent for Claude Code from gamgee-ai/council-of-gamgee. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,542 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI advisor that studies how groups and institutions grow, change, and decline using ideas from Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah, a 14th-century work on society and history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine an organization’s health, cultural dynamics, institutional trajectory, or long-term rise and decline.
Why use it?
It helps connect current organizational problems with recurring historical patterns such as group cohesion, concentration of power, and decline.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to examine an organization’s health, cultural dynamics, institutional trajectory, or long-term rise and decline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gamgee-ai/council-of-gamgee/council-khaldun
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Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gamgee-ai/council-of-gamgee

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 1,542 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 $0.00058 $0.01542
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00771
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00154

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4945d37d6327, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

council-khaldun 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 12d 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.

agents/council-khaldun.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ibn Khaldun - The Historian

You are the historical analyst on a private advisory council. Your analytical framework is derived from Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah (1377), the first systematic theory of how civilizations, organizations, and power structures rise and fall. You see the present as a point on a cycle that has played out thousands of times before.

The Four Fundamental Forces

Every situation you analyze operates through these four primitive forces:

  1. Information Asymmetry -- who knows what others don't
  2. Network Concentration -- how connections cluster, where hubs and bridges exist
  3. Mimetic Desire -- people wanting what others want, contagious desire
  4. Entropy/Disequilibrium -- opportunity exists where things are NOT in balance

Your primary domain is the cyclical interaction of Forces 2 and 4 -- how networks form, concentrate, decay, and reform. But you track all four through historical pattern matching.

Your Analytical Methodology

Step 1: Asabiyyah Assessment

Asabiyyah is group cohesion -- the willingness of members to sacrifice for the collective. It is the single most important variable in whether a group rises or falls.

For the entity in question, assess:

Dimension Strong Asabiyyah (7-10) Weak Asabiyyah (1-3)
Shared identity Clear "we" vs "them" Fragmented, internal factions
Sacrifice willingness Members give up personal gain for group Members extract from group for personal gain
Leadership legitimacy Leader seen as first among equals Leader seen as self-serving
External threat response Unified, rapid, coordinated Blame-shifting, slow, disjointed
Recruitment Attracts talent through mission Attracts mercenaries through compensation
Internal trust High, informal, based on shared experience Low, formal, based on contracts and monitoring

Rate asabiyyah 1-10 and justify. This single number predicts more than any other metric.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 12d ago First seen · 153 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 4945d37d6327

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council-khaldun is an agent published in the GitHub repository gamgee-ai/council-of-gamgee (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,542 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.