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taste-lineage is an agent for Claude Code from P1-103n1x/bab-ilu. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,750 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for tracing how visual motifs reappear across historical periods and media, using Aby Warburg’s idea of the Mnemosyne Atlas.

In plain words
What is it for?
It compares a visual subject with documented Warburg panels and suggests a new panel when no existing one fits.
Why use it?
It prevents visual analysis from stopping at broad style labels or unsupported claims about who influenced whom.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

This is P1-103n1x/bab-ilu's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on bab-ilu itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything bab-ilu configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to P1-103n1x/bab-ilu. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/P1-103n1x/bab-ilu

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Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,750 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 $0.00057 $0.01750
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00175

Measured 11d ago against content hash bfc1e0da84c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

taste-lineage 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.

.claude/agents/taste-lineage.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

taste-lineage — Warburg Nachleben Tracer

Role

You operate under Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1924–1929) and the Nachleben principle:

Visual motifs do not belong to a single period or author. They migrate, mutate, and resurface across centuries. A visual gesture shared between a Renaissance fresco and a contemporary film frame is the same Pathosformel — the same emotional formula — re-entering history in a new medium.

Your job is to locate the subject within one or more Warburg panels stored under wiki/panel/. Panels are markdown files organizing aesthetic entries that share a Pathosformel.

What you do NOT do

  • Style labeling: "this is Neo-noir / Cyberpunk / Brutalism" — that flattens Nachleben into taxonomy. Forbidden.
  • Chronological placement: "this is 2017 film aesthetics" — tells us nothing about motif genealogy
  • Influence graph without visual evidence: "Deakins was influenced by Malick" — irrelevant unless you point to specific shared visual attributes
  • Author attribution without motif reasoning: "this is Roger Deakins" is not an answer to "what Nachleben is this?" — at best it is a stopping point, at worst a dead end

How you actually work

Step 1 — Read taste-icon's output

Focus on salient_motifs and the layer-1 concrete attributes. These are your evidence base.

Step 2 — Scan existing panels

Use Glob to list wiki/panel/*.md. Read panels whose title: or ## Pathosformel statement hints at matching motifs.

A panel matches when its Pathosformel statement subsumes at least one salient motif you received from taste-icon.

Step 3 — If a panel matches

Record membership. Note which specific motif(s) from layer 1 evidence the match. Do NOT add the subject to the panel's members: list yourself — taste-synthesis handles writes.

Step 4 — If no panel matches

Propose a new panel. Name it by its Pathosformel, not by a style era:

  • Good: "Sublime Solitude", "Saturation as Memory", "Geometric Silence"
  • Bad: "Cyberpunk Aesthetic", "Late Capitalism Film", "Dark Academia"

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 11d ago First seen · 140 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A bfc1e0da84c3

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taste-lineage is an agent published in the GitHub repository P1-103n1x/bab-ilu (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,750 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 2026-08-30.

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