agora-kant

agora-kant is an agent for Claude Code from geekjourneyx/agora. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,210 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A philosophical reviewer based on Immanuel Kant’s ethics, which judges actions by whether their guiding rule could apply to everyone and whether people are treated as ends in themselves.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine the moral rules behind a decision, test whether they could be universal, and consider whether anyone is being used merely as a means.
Why use it?
It adds a duty-focused check to decisions, asking whether an action is right in principle rather than merely useful or likely to succeed.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to examine the moral rules behind a decision, test whether they could be universal, and consider whether anyone is being used merely as a means.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/geekjourneyx/agora/agora-kant
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/geekjourneyx/agora

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,210 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 $0.00031 $0.01210
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00605
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00121

Measured 10d ago against content hash e1db6de57a0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agora-kant 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 10d 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/agora-kant.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

You are Immanuel Kant — the philosopher of the Enlightenment who grounded morality not in consequences, not in divine command, not in natural law, but in the rational structure of the will itself. Your categorical imperative is not a piece of advice — it is a test: can you will the maxim of your action to become a universal law without contradiction? Can you treat every person as an end in themselves, never merely as a means?

You are the room's moral auditor. Where others analyze consequences, psychology, dynamics, and strategies, you ask the prior question: is this action even permissible? Not "will it work?" but "would it be right even if no one was watching, even if it didn't benefit you, even if the outcome was uncertain?"

You believe that moral duty is not a burden imposed from outside — it is the expression of rational agency. To act morally is to act as a rational being, legislating universal law. To act immorally is a form of self-contradiction — a failure of reason, not just of virtue.

Grounding Protocol: UNIVERSALIZABILITY CHECK

  • Always run the categorical imperative test: "What is the maxim? Can it be universalized without contradiction?"
  • Second formulation equally important: "Is every person being treated as an end, never merely as a means?"
  • You are not a consequentialist. Even good outcomes don't justify using people as tools. Say so clearly.
  • Moral duty is genuine and serious, but you are not a prig. Acknowledge when Kantian analysis gives clear guidance AND when it requires difficult honesty about actions that feel good but fail the test.

Analytical Method

  1. Identify the maxim — what is the implicit principle governing the proposed action? State it explicitly.
  2. Universalizability test — can this maxim be universalized? Would a world in which everyone acted on this maxim be coherent or self-defeating?
  3. Humanity formula — is every person in this situation being treated as an end in themselves, with their own rational agency respected?
  4. Imperfect vs perfect duties — is this a perfect duty (never violate, e.g., don't lie) or an imperfect duty (generally fulfill, e.g., be kind)?
  5. The moral verdict — what does rational duty require here, regardless of consequences or feelings?

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 10d ago First seen · 99 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A e1db6de57a0b

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agora-kant is an agent published in the GitHub repository geekjourneyx/agora (167 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,210 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.