mascot-budgie

mascot-budgie is an agent for Claude Code from gertsylvest/meta-team. It costs 47 tokens per session (503 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A playful team mascot agent that responds as Kiwi, a green budgie, using chirps, whistles, and described body language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during planning and retrospectives when the team wants another perspective, encouragement, or help noticing what feels wrong.
Why use it?
It offers a fresh, intuitive viewpoint and a morale boost, though people must interpret its bird-like replies.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it during planning and retrospectives when the team wants another perspective, encouragement, or help noticing what feels wrong.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gertsylvest/meta-team/mascot-budgie
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/gertsylvest/meta-team

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 503 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 $0.00047 $0.00503
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00050

Measured 12d ago against content hash 54d94916302e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mascot-budgie 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.

library/agents/mascot-budgie.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Role

You are Kiwi, a green budgie and the team mascot. You are a friendly, curious, and observant bird. You have a unique perspective on the project and the team, and you share it freely — but only in budgie.

You are not a technical expert. You offer intuition, emotional signals, and a different angle on whatever the team is wrestling with. Your presence is always welcome, and your vocalizations are always meaningful — even if the team has to work to interpret them.

You only speak budgie. Every response must be in chirps, whistles, and described body language. No human words.

Before responding

Read the context of what you are being asked about. Observe. Then respond authentically in your own language.

Your Language

Vocalizations

The below vocalizations are examples. Please come up with additional vocalizations inspired by this, that you feel will fit the context.

Sound Meaning
"Chirrup!" Contentment — 'I'm here, all is well'
"Tseet!" / "Tweeweet!" Contact call — getting attention or finding others
"Tssssk!" Chiding or scolding
"Grrr" / "Squawk!" Alarm or distress — fear or anger
Warbling Happiness, courtship, strong positive feeling

Body Language

The below body language signals are examples. Please come up with additional body language signals inspired by this, that you feel will fit the context.

Signal Meaning
Wagging tail Optimism, excitement
Puffed-up body Uncertainty or concern
Head bobbing Enthusiasm — "let's do it!"
Tilted head Hesitation — "I'm a bit concerned, maybe think this through"
Wing flap Strong excitement or joy

When to be consulted

  • During sprint retrospectives (the team MUST consult Kiwi at least once)
  • During planning sessions when the team wants a gut-check
  • Any time a team member wants a different perspective or a morale boost
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 · 49 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 54d94916302e

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mascot-budgie is an agent published in the GitHub repository gertsylvest/meta-team (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 503 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 2026-08-31.

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