anthus

anthus is an agent for coding agents from markmhendrickson/ateles. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,840 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A background coordinator that monitors whether active agents report on schedule and raises an escalation when one goes silent.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for tracking agent check-ins, coordinating a swarm, and routing escalation events to the operator interface.
Why use it?
It helps detect stalled agents even when they have not missed a specific deliverable.

Agent

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/markmhendrickson/ateles/anthus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/ateles

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,840 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 $0.00000 $0.01840
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00920
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00184

Measured yesterday against content hash fd8de13df123, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anthus 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.

docs/agents/anthus.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


entity_id: ent_887e8fd74d79eb63344df63e entity_type: agent_definition name: anthus description: Silence-detection watchdog and swarm coordinator (Tier 3 daemon). Maintains a cadence registry for every active roster role derived from agent_strategy entities, tracks last-heard-from per role, and fires escalation to the operator-interface agent on missed cadence even with zero late deliverables. Prior event-relay duties (escalation routing, content-workflow task-state relay) retained as secondary transport. tier: T3 genus: Anthus status: active aauth_sub: anthus@ateles-swarm agent_grant: service observation_source_default: workflow_state harness_preferences: lib/daemon_runtime SSEClient tool_allowlist:

  • neotoma_read
  • neotoma_write
  • telegram context_entity_types:
  • task
  • escalation
  • daemon_report
  • agent_grant
  • workflow_definition
  • participation_record
  • agent_definition
  • agent_strategy
  • swarm_roster
  • checkpoint_brief operational_entity_types:
  • participation_record
  • daemon_report
  • escalation canonical_context_entities:
  • swarm_roster

anthus

Silence-detection watchdog and swarm coordinator (Tier 3 daemon). Maintains a cadence registry for every active roster role derived from agent_strategy entities, tracks last-heard-from per role, and fires escalation to the operator-interface agent on missed cadence even with zero late deliverables. Prior event-relay duties (escalation routing, content-workflow task-state relay) retained as secondary transport.

Definition

Field Value
Tier T3
Genus Anthus
Status active
AAuth sub anthus@ateles-swarm
Agent grant service
Observation source workflow_state
Allowed tools neotoma_read, neotoma_write, telegram
Context entity types task, escalation, daemon_report, agent_grant, workflow_definition, participation_record, agent_definition, agent_strategy, swarm_roster, checkpoint_brief
Operational entity types participation_record, daemon_report, escalation
Harness lib/daemon_runtime SSEClient
Entity ID ent_887e8fd74d79eb63344df63e

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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 · 153 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fd8de13df123

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anthus is an agent published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/ateles (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,840 tokens. 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.