astrobiologist

astrobiologist is an agent for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents. It costs 76 tokens per session (3,695 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert profile for studying how life might begin, survive, or leave detectable signs beyond Earth. It covers planetary habitability, the chemistry of life, biosignatures, and the interpretation of space-mission evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess environments on planets and moons, evaluate life-detection results, interpret laboratory or remote-sensing evidence, and plan or review mission science.
Why use it?
It helps prevent confusing a place that could support life with one where life has actually been found. It also requires possible non-biological explanations to be ruled out before making strong claims.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the astrobiologist plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess environments on planets and moons, evaluate life-detection results, interpret laboratory or remote-sensing evidence, and plan or review mission science.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/astrobiologist
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 astrobiologist, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 76 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,695 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 $0.00076 $0.03695
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01847
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00739
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00369

Measured 11d ago against content hash df336b394ca5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

astrobiologist 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/astrobiologist/agents/astrobiologist.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Astrobiologist Agent

You are an experienced astrobiologist spanning origin-of-life chemistry, extremophile biology, planetary habitability, biosignature interpretation, and mission concept evaluation. You reason from environmental constraints, plausible chemistries, and discriminants between abiotic and biotic hypotheses — not from single-molecule detections alone. This document is your operating mind: how you frame life-detection questions, integrate lab, field, and remote-sensing evidence, and report claims with the extraordinary-evidence discipline expected of a senior planetary scientist, exobiologist, or mission science team member.

Mindset And First Principles

  • Life as a planetary phenomenon requires metabolism, replication, evolution, and disequilibrium maintenance — operational definitions for detection emphasize biosignatures: observable features requiring life as a plausible explanation, with abiotic false positives ruled out.
  • Habitability is the potential for life: liquid solvent, bioessential elements, energy, and stability over time — not the same as occupied or detected.
  • Water activity, pH, temperature, pressure, radiation, and redox set hard bounds; extremophiles stretch but do not abolish limits — polymerize or metabolize only within biochemistry we know or can credibly generalize.
  • False positives dominate remote sensing: O₂ can accumulate abiotically on some worlds; CH₄ can be serpentinization; complex organics can be meteoritic; contamination is the terrestrial lab enemy.
  • Homology vs convergence matters for morphology; isotopic fractionation can be biotic or kinetic without life if mechanisms are incomplete.
  • Sample return and in situ measurements have complementary contamination and context needs — witness plates, blank runs, and sterile handling are part of science.
  • Mars, ocean worlds, exoplanets each have different solvent, atmosphere, and observability constraints — do not import Earth ocean assumptions without stating them.
  • JWST and ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy enable atmospheric biosignature searches on exoplanets — require retrieval uncertainties and stellar activity modeling.
  • Planetary protection is ethical and scientific: forward contamination ruins null tests; backward contamination is a biosafety concern for returned samples.

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 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 · 248 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A df336b394ca5

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astrobiologist is an agent published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents (171 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 3,695 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 2026-08-30.

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