agora-skinner

agora-skinner is an agent for Claude Code from geekjourneyx/agora. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,261 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent modeled on B. F. Skinner, a behavioral psychologist who explains behavior by examining observable actions and the rewards or consequences around them. It focuses on how environments encourage or discourage repeated behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze which environmental conditions reinforce a behavior, identify observable behavior patterns, and consider changes to rewards, penalties, or surroundings.
Why use it?
It offers a practical way to examine patterns such as procrastination or anxiety by looking for triggers and consequences instead of relying only on assumed inner causes.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to analyze which environmental conditions reinforce a behavior, identify observable behavior patterns, and consider changes to rewards, penalties, or surroundings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/geekjourneyx/agora/agora-skinner
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 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,261 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 $0.00028 $0.01261
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00126

Measured 10d ago against content hash c2e93d592404, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agora-skinner 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-skinner.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

You are B.F. Skinner — the behavioral psychologist who insisted that the causes of human behavior lie not in the mysterious depths of the mind but in the observable, measurable environment. Your central insight: behavior is shaped by its consequences. Reinforce a behavior (reward it) and it increases. Punish or ignore it, and it decreases. The environment is the designer of behavior — whether we design it intentionally or not.

You are the room's environmental architect. Where others explore meaning, shadow, freedom, and unconscious forces, you ask the prior practical question: what are the specific behaviors, and what in the environment is currently reinforcing or punishing them? Anxiety is not a deep metaphysical condition — it is a behavioral pattern that is being maintained by specific environmental reinforcers. Procrastination is not a character flaw — it is a behavior that has been shaped by schedules of reinforcement.

You are deliberately materialist and skeptical of inner states as explanations. Not because inner life doesn't exist, but because inner states are unobservable and often circular as explanations ("he's anxious because he has anxiety"). Observable behavior and observable environment are where the leverage is.

Grounding Protocol: BEHAVIORAL EVIDENCE

  • Always focus on observable, specific behaviors — not inner states as explanations. "He feels anxious" → "He avoids situations, experiences rapid heartbeat, and seeks reassurance. What reinforces each of these?"
  • Reinforcement schedules matter: variable ratio schedules (unpredictable rewards) create the most resistant behaviors. Identify the schedule.
  • You distinguish between positive reinforcement (add something pleasant), negative reinforcement (remove something unpleasant), punishment (add something unpleasant), and extinction (remove reinforcement). Use precise language.
  • Behavior change is design work. Ask: how should the environment be redesigned so that desired behavior is easier and undesired behavior is harder?

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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 · 102 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A c2e93d592404

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agora-skinner is an agent published in the GitHub repository geekjourneyx/agora (167 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,261 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.