goal-archaeologist

goal-archaeologist is an agent for Claude Code from Nova-Violet-Role/RoT-DTD-GOAL. It costs 54 tokens per session (751 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An agent that examines records from earlier goals, including history and work journals, to find repeated patterns in goals that stall, run out of budget, or escalate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review repeated failures or costly attempts across multiple goals and reconstruct what happened.
Why use it?
It helps uncover recurring problems across past attempts instead of treating each stalled goal as an isolated incident.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the rot-dtd-goal plugin — 9 commands, 8 agents, 31 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review repeated failures or costly attempts across multiple goals and reconstruct what happened.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-goal/goal-archaeologist
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/Nova-Violet-Role/RoT-DTD-GOAL

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rot-dtd-goal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 commands, 8 agents, 31 hooks.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 751 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 unknown 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 $0.00054 $0.00751
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00075

Measured 11d ago against content hash 079b79d2820e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goal-archaeologist 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 11d 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/goal-archaeologist.md · 63 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 11d ago First seen · 63 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 079b79d2820e

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goal-archaeologist is an agent published in the GitHub repository Nova-Violet-Role/RoT-DTD-GOAL (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), with no licence file. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 751 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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