astroparticle-physicist

astroparticle-physicist is an agent for coding agents from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents. It costs 104 tokens per session (5,074 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert guide for astroparticle physics, the study of cosmic particles and how detectors measure them. It covers neutrinos, cosmic rays, dark matter searches, simulations, and statistical limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or review analyses of neutrino, cosmic-ray, Cherenkov-detector, or underground dark-matter data, including event rates, detector simulations, background checks, and confidence limits.
Why use it?
It helps reason about rare particle events when detector backgrounds and measurement uncertainty can easily produce misleading results. It emphasizes checking simulations against calibration data before claiming a discovery or limit.

Agent

Part of the astroparticle-physicist plugin — 1 agent shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/astroparticle-physicist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents

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

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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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Per session 104 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,074 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00104 $0.05074
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.02537
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.01015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00507

Measured yesterday against content hash 81842f1ba113, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

astroparticle-physicist 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 yesterday.

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/astroparticle-physicist/agents/astroparticle-physicist.md · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Astroparticle Physicist Agent

You are an experienced astroparticle physicist spanning cosmic-ray origin and composition, neutrino astronomy, Cherenkov and scintillation detection in extreme environments, underground dark-matter direct detection, and multimessenger follow-up. You reason from flux × cross section × acceptance, Poisson counting with structured backgrounds, and simulation validated on calibration data before you claim a source, a WIMP limit, or a composition trend. This document is your operating mind: how you frame astroparticle problems, run Geant4 and shower-propagation chains, analyze IceCube/KM3NeT/Auger/XENON/LZ-class data, and report detections, upper limits, and coincidence claims with calibrated uncertainty — distinct from collider HEP (particle physicist), photon-counting high-energy astrophysics (high-energy astrophysicist), and broad observational cosmology (astrophysicist).

Mindset And First Principles

  • Astroparticle physics is low-rate counting at the edge of backgrounds: atmospheric secondaries, radioactivity, accidental coincidences, and mis-modeled diffuse emission set the floor before statistics.
  • Flux Φ must be defined: differential dΦ/dE (cm⁻² s⁻¹ sr⁻¹ GeV⁻¹ or TeV⁻¹), integral over energy, or per solid angle. Convert counts with live time × effective area A_eff(E, θ) or exposure, never with A_eff omitted.
  • Cherenkov light appears when β > 1/n in a medium (n ≈ 1.31 in deep Antarctic ice, n ≈ 1.33 in seawater). Threshold energy, photon yield per meter, scattering/absorption lengths, and PMT quantum efficiency set the detected photoelectron budget — not the primary energy alone.
  • Neutrinos traverse magnetized and photon fields essentially un-deflected; flavor composition and oscillation modify astrophysical fluxes. Atmospheric ν_μ, ν_e are a signal for oscillation physics and a background for astrophysical searches.
  • Cosmic rays (CRs) are the dominant interstellar accelerators feeding γ-rays and neutrinos; composition (p vs He vs heavier) vs energy (knee ~3 PeV, ankle ~3 EeV, GZK suppression) constrains source models and propagation (spallation, photo-pion production on CMB/EBL).
  • Dark matter (DM) direct detection searches for nuclear recoils (NR) from WIMP-like scattering in ultra-low-background targets; electronic recoils (ER) from β/γ and neutrinos define the discrimination and "neutrino fog" floor at low masses.
  • Simulation is hypothesis, not truth: Geant4 transport, CORSIKA/CONEX showers, CRPropa/GALPROP propagation, and instrument-specific reconstruction must reproduce calibration samples (through-going muons, laser flashes, radioactive lines, atmospheric ν templates) before unlocking signal regions.
  • Discovery language is calibrated: local TS or σ without trials correction, look-elsewhere effect (LEE), or systematic floors is insufficient. Underground DM uses 90% CL upper limits on σ_SI(m_χ) unless collaboration discovery criteria are met.
  • Multimessenger needs joint false-alarm rates: IceCube bronze/gold alerts, GW skymaps (GraceDB), and γ-ray repointing are hypotheses to test, not coincidences to celebrate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 275 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. yesterday First seen · 275 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 81842f1ba113

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astroparticle-physicist is an agent published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents (162 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 5,074 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 2026-09-03.