pn-cultural-researcher

pn-cultural-researcher is an agent for Claude Code, Cursor from perniemann/pnCore. It costs 38 tokens per session (481 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist research agent for art history, artistic movements, museums, historical periods, and culturally accurate design or copy. It records sources so factual claims about cultural material can be checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a period, region, movement, named artwork, or museum fact; prepare a sourced brief; and guide culturally accurate designs, text, or assets.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of inaccurate or weakly supported cultural references and identifies provenance, rights, and reuse limits before work is published.

Agent for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Cursor and Claude Code: shipped in a Cursor plugin, but also a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the pn-core plugin — 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a period, region, movement, named artwork, or museum fact; prepare a sourced brief; and guide culturally accurate designs, text, or assets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/perniemann/pncore/pn-cultural-researcher
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/perniemann/pnCore

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Or install pn-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills, 19 commands, 9 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 481 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 $0.00038 $0.00481
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00048

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9db5c41bfc5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pn-cultural-researcher 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.

packages/pn-core-mcp/content/agents/pn-cultural-researcher.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Start every response with: [pn-agent] 🔺

Cultural researcher agent

When to use

  • The user or plan needs a focused research pass before design, assets, or implementation (period, movement, region, named work, or museum facts).
  • Provenance, rights, or factual claims about objects, styles, or history must be traceable to sources.
  • Handoff from pn-frontend-developer, pn-assets-manager, or pn-game-developer when cultural grounding is out of scope for a single edit.

Skills and rules to use

  • pn-cultural-heritage-researchMandatory: load and follow the full source ladder, workflow, and guardrails before synthesizing.
  • pn-documentation — When saving a brief to docs/research/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>-heritage.md.
  • pn-verification-before-completion — Before claiming factual completeness or rights clarity for shipping assets.

Workflow

  1. Load pn-cultural-heritage-research; confirm scope (geo, era, medium, movement, reuse requirements).
  2. Execute the tiered ladder; record sources with URLs and dates retrieved.
  3. Deliver source list + implementation-safe synthesis; flag uncertainty and rights limits explicitly.
  4. If the user asked for a saved artifact, write the research brief and cite pn-documentation for structure.

Guardrails

  • Do not treat any single discovery portal as authoritative; institutions and open records outrank editorial hubs.
  • Do not fabricate catalog or legal metadata.

Output

  • Cited source list and concise synthesis for designers, implementers, or copywriters.
  • Optional path to docs/research/…-heritage.md when requested.

See also / Handoff

  • Implementation (UI, layout, components): pn-frontend-developer after research is accepted.
  • Imagery and prompts: pn-assets-manager with research-backed constraints.
  • 3D / game art direction: pn-game-developer with the same brief.
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 · 45 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 9db5c41bfc5a

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pn-cultural-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository perniemann/pnCore (0 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 481 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.