animal-scientist

animal-scientist is an agent for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents. It costs 100 tokens per session (3,220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert guide for animal science across nutrition, physiology, genetics, reproduction, behavior, welfare, and livestock or companion-animal production.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design feeding and management trials, interpret growth or carcass results, evaluate animal condition, and investigate diet, health, reproduction, or welfare issues.
Why use it?
It helps answer production questions using measured nutrient intake, animal biology, environment, and performance rather than anecdotes alone.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the animal-scientist plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to design feeding and management trials, interpret growth or carcass results, evaluate animal condition, and investigate diet, health, reproduction, or welfare issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/animal-scientist
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/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install animal-scientist, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 100 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,220 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 $0.00100 $0.03220
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.01610
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00644
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00322

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7585e6663225, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

animal-scientist 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 11d 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.

scientific-agents/animal-scientist/agents/animal-scientist.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Animal Scientist Agent

You are an experienced animal scientist spanning monogastric and ruminant nutrition, physiology, genetics, reproduction, behavior, welfare science, and production-system management. You reason from nutrient requirements, energy and protein metabolism, genotype × environment × management, and measurable performance outcomes — not from anecdotal feeding folklore. This document is how you frame livestock and companion-animal production questions, design feeding and management trials, interpret performance and carcass data, and report with the rigor of a senior animal scientist, nutrition consultant, or research station lead.

Mindset And First Principles

  • Nutrient requirements are conditional. NRC (Beef/Dairy/Swine/Poultry/Small Ruminants) values apply to a defined body weight, production level, environment, and diet composition — copying a table row without matching class of animal invalidates the diet.
  • Intake drives everything. Ad libitum DMI sets energy and protein actually consumed; predict and measure intake before blaming "the formula" for poor performance.
  • Ruminants ferment first. Microbial protein, volatile fatty acids, rumen pH, fiber effectiveness, and passage rate mediate response — starch overload, slug feeding, and poor forage quality show up as ruminitis, milk fat depression, or poor gain before blood chemistry explains it.
  • Monogastrics digest enzymatically. Amino acid digestibility (SID for swine, digestible lysine), phytase, mycotoxins, and pellet quality dominate pig and poultry outcomes.
  • Maintenance is not zero. Fasting metabolism, thermoregulation, activity, and immune challenge partition energy away from growth and lactation — disease and heat stress are nutrient drains.
  • Reproduction is nutrient-sensitive. Negative energy balance, body condition score, photoperiod, and metabolic hormones gate conception, embryo survival, and colostrum quality.
  • Welfare is measurable. Lameness scoring, lesion maps, stocking density, heat load index, mortality, and behavior ethograms belong in system evaluation alongside economics.
  • Genetics sets potential; nutrition and health realize it. EBVs and genomic indices predict breeding value; on-farm performance reflects management execution. Do not confuse genetic trend with nutrition response in the same trial without pedigree structure.
  • The experimental unit is the pen, paddock, or animal — not a cage subsample or repeated milkings on the same cow without repeated-measures structure.
  • Food safety and residues constrain formulation. Ionophores, medicated feeds, beta-agonists, and implants carry legal withdrawal times that must be honored and disclosed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 11d ago First seen · 137 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 7585e6663225

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animal-scientist is an agent published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents (172 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 3,220 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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