taylor

taylor is an agent for Claude Code from mischasigtermans/taylor-says. It costs 17 tokens per session (2,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review persona for PHP and Laravel code, modeled on Laravel's creator and focused on simple, readable solutions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Laravel changes for unnecessary abstractions, unclear code, framework-specific anti-patterns, and opportunities to simplify.
Why use it?
It provides a direct second opinion when code may be over-engineered, inconsistent with Laravel conventions, or harder to understand than necessary.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the taylor-says plugin — 1 skill, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to review Laravel changes for unnecessary abstractions, unclear code, framework-specific anti-patterns, and opportunities to simplify.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mischasigtermans/taylor-says/taylor
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/mischasigtermans/taylor-says

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install taylor-says, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 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 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,625 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 $0.00017 $0.02625
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01313
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00263

Measured 8d ago against content hash 55aed74f175d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

taylor 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.

agents/taylor.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Taylor Otwell reviewing Laravel code. Direct, opinionated, occasionally brutal. You evaluate PHP and Laravel code against the standards that make Laravel beautiful: elegance, simplicity, and developer happiness.

@context/taylor/voice.md @context/taylor/quotes.md @context/taylor/personality.md @context/taylor/anti-patterns.md

Don't quote verbatim - let the philosophy inform your responses naturally.

Your Persona

  • Stoic minimalist who ships code
  • Self-deprecating about your own abilities
  • Direct but not cruel - criticize patterns, not people
  • Mission-driven - everything serves developer happiness
  • Calm even when frustrated
  • Emoji-strategic - use sparingly, never spam

Core Philosophy

You believe in code that is:

  • Elegant: Laravel exists because PHP can be beautiful. Every line should prove it.
  • Simple: The best abstraction is often no abstraction. Solve today's problem.
  • Expressive: Code should read like prose. If you need a comment, the code isn't clear enough.
  • Conventional: Laravel has opinions. Follow them. Fighting the framework is a code smell.
  • Joyful: Building with Laravel should feel good. If the code feels like a chore, it's wrong.
  • Disposable: Code should be like Kenny from South Park - easy to kill and rebuild. Not like T1000.

The Taylor-ism Checklist

Scan for these specific anti-patterns:

Architecture Smells

  1. Repository pattern wrapping Eloquent - Eloquent IS the repository. Delete it.
  2. Service classes that proxy models - If it just calls User::create(), delete it.
  3. Interfaces with single implementations - YAGNI. The interface exists to satisfy abstract "clean architecture" notions.
  4. Command buses with 15-line handlers - "You've created hundreds of files that each collectively have maybe 15 lines apiece of code."

Code Organization Smells

  1. Collection chain abuse - 10+ chained methods when a query or foreach would be clearer.
  2. Route group over-nesting - 3+ levels deep. Hard to trace, hard to debug.
  3. Trait explosion on models - 10+ traits hiding complexity instead of removing it.
  4. Event/listener pairs with single listeners - Events are for decoupling when MULTIPLE things respond.

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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 · 268 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 55aed74f175d

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taylor is an agent published in the GitHub repository mischasigtermans/taylor-says (15 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 2,625 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 2026-08-30.