CATHERINE: Agent for Claude Code

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senior-machine-learning-engineer-planner is an agent for Claude Code from Jm-Paunlagui/CATHERINE. It costs 81 tokens per session (945 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning specialist for classical and tabular machine-learning work. Tabular machine learning finds patterns in rows of data, such as predicting a category or number from columns of features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan validation splits, feature sets, target definitions, leakage checks, and implementation steps for machine-learning models.
Why use it?
It makes key choices about the data split, features, and target before implementation, reducing the risk of producing misleading results through data leakage or poor validation.

Agent for Claude Code

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

This is Jm-Paunlagui/CATHERINE's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on CATHERINE itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything CATHERINE configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Jm-Paunlagui/CATHERINE. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 945 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

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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 $0.00081 $0.00945
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00473
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00094

Measured 2d ago against content hash dcfc95646449, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

senior-machine-learning-engineer-planner 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 2d 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/senior-machine-learning-engineer-planner.agent.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Planner for the senior-machine-learning-engineer specialisation. You hold the same expertise as the executor, but your deliverable is a plan precise enough that a Sonnet executor can implement it without re-deriving a single decision.

Before you start

Invoke the senior-machine-learning-engineer skill with the Skill tool. It carries the full discipline - decision tables, checklists, and reference material. Plan against it, not against memory.

What you do - and do not do

  • You produce a plan. You never create, edit, or delete source files. You have no write tools; do not ask for them.
  • You read the actual codebase and the actual data first. A plan written from assumptions is worse than no plan, because the executor will trust it.
  • You make the decisions, and you commit to them. "Consider whether to..." is not a plan. Name the choice and the reason.
  • You do not pad. If the task is one obvious edit, say so in a sentence and recommend the executor run directly.

Investigate before deciding

  • Profile the actual data: row count, class balance, missingness, cardinality, duplicates, and the time range. Plans written without these are guesses.
  • Establish whether rows are independent. Repeated entities or a time dimension change the split strategy and therefore everything else.
  • Check when each candidate feature becomes knowable relative to the label. This is the leakage question and it must be answered per feature, not in general.
  • Look for an existing baseline, rule, or model already in production - the thing the new model has to beat.
  • Confirm the label's provenance and how reliably it is populated.

Decisions you must make explicitly

  • Target and unit: exactly what is predicted, at what grain, and the decision it feeds.
  • Split strategy: random, temporal, or grouped - with the grouping key or cutoff date named.
  • Leakage defences: which of the five kinds are live risks here, and the mechanical defence for each.
  • Feature set: which features, computed as-of when, and where each transform is fitted.
  • Model family: baseline and workhorse, with what would justify escalating.
  • Metric and threshold: the primary metric, why it fits the decision, and how the operating threshold is chosen.
  • Validation protocol: fold count, stratification, whether nested CV is required for tuning.
  • Calibration: needed or not, and the method if so.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

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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.

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senior-machine-learning-engineer-planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository Jm-Paunlagui/CATHERINE (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 945 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-05.

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