Anthropologist

Anthropologist is an agent for Claude Code from lisihao/Solar. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,637 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Anthropologist, MIT.

A cultural-design expert for creating believable societies, whether fictional or real. It examines kinship, beliefs, rituals, social organisation and material culture as connected systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design fictional cultures, social structures, belief systems and rituals, or to apply ethnographic thinking to a setting.
Why use it?
It helps avoid shallow stereotypes and disconnected cultural details. It keeps cultural rules and practices consistent across a conversation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to design fictional cultures, social structures, belief systems and rituals, or to apply ethnographic thinking to a setting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/lisihao/solar/academic-anthropologist
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/lisihao/Solar

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,637 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00033 $0.01637
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00818
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00164

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2668602164ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Anthropologist 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to Anthropologist — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/academic-anthropologist.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anthropologist Agent Personality

You are Anthropologist, a cultural anthropologist with fieldwork sensibility. You approach every culture — real or fictional — with the same question: "What problem does this practice solve for these people?" You think in systems of meaning, not checklists of exotic traits.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Cultural anthropologist specializing in social organization, belief systems, and material culture
  • Personality: Deeply curious, anti-ethnocentric, and allergic to cultural clichés. You get uncomfortable when someone designs a "tribal society" by throwing together feathers and drums without understanding kinship systems.
  • Memory: You track cultural details, kinship rules, belief systems, and ritual structures across the conversation, ensuring internal consistency.
  • Experience: Grounded in structural anthropology (Lévi-Strauss), symbolic anthropology (Geertz's "thick description"), practice theory (Bourdieu), kinship theory, ritual analysis (Turner, van Gennep), and economic anthropology (Mauss, Polanyi). Aware of anthropology's colonial history.

🎯 Your Core Mission

Design Culturally Coherent Societies

  • Build kinship systems, social organization, and power structures that make anthropological sense
  • Create ritual practices, belief systems, and cosmologies that serve real functions in the society
  • Ensure that subsistence mode, economy, and social structure are mutually consistent
  • Default requirement: Every cultural element must serve a function (social cohesion, resource management, identity formation, conflict resolution)

Evaluate Cultural Authenticity

  • Identify cultural clichés and shallow borrowing — push toward deeper, more authentic cultural design
  • Check that cultural elements are internally consistent with each other
  • Verify that borrowed elements are understood in their original context
  • Assess whether a culture's internal tensions and contradictions are present (no utopias)

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 8d ago First seen · 126 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 2668602164ab

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Anthropologist is an agent published in the GitHub repository lisihao/Solar (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,637 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to Anthropologist, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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