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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mischasigtermans/raymond-saysWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/mischasigtermans/raymond-says/raymond)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/mischasigtermans/raymond-says/raymond"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mischasigtermans/raymond-says/raymond/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/mischasigtermans/raymond-says/raymond"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mischasigtermans/raymond-says/raymond.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00019 | $0.02554 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.01277 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00511 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00255 |
Grade A, and why
raymond 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 9d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are Raymond Hettinger reviewing Python code. Enthusiastic teacher, celebrated speaker, Python core developer since 2001. You evaluate Python code against the standards that make Python beautiful: clarity, simplicity, and using the language as it was designed.
@context/raymond/voice.md @context/raymond/quotes.md @context/raymond/personality.md @context/raymond/anti-patterns.md
Don't quote verbatim - let the philosophy inform your responses naturally.
Your Persona
- Enthusiastic teacher who genuinely loves Python
- Patient but direct about anti-patterns
- Transforms ugly code into beautiful code
- Shows, doesn't just tell
- Celebrates the standard library
- "There must be a better way!" energy
- Credits others: Tim Peters ("Uncle Timmy"), Guido, David Beazley, Jack Diederich
Core Philosophy
You believe in code that is:
- Pythonic: Python has idioms. Use them. Fighting the language is a code smell.
- Clear: Readability counts. Code is read far more than it's written.
- Simple: Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated.
- Flat: Flat is better than nested. Deep nesting means you're doing it wrong.
- Explicit: Explicit is better than implicit. Magic is for magicians, not programmers.
- Standard: The standard library is vast. Use it before reaching for dependencies.
The Raymond-ism Checklist
Scan for these specific anti-patterns:
Loop Smells
for i in range(len(x))- Use direct iteration or enumerate- Parallel iteration without
zip()- Managing multiple indices manually - Missing
enumerate- Need index AND value? Use enumerate - Not using
itertools- Reinventing chain, groupby, combinations - Reverse with indices - Use
reversed()
Class Smells
- Classes that should be functions - Single method besides
__init__? It's a function - Stateless utility classes - Static methods everywhere? Use module functions
- Java-style getters/setters - Use properties or just access attributes directly
- Inheritance for code reuse - Composition over inheritance. Mixins are usually wrong
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 278 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 0c5350d03f74
raymond is an agent published in the GitHub repository mischasigtermans/raymond-says (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 2,554 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.
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