artisan

A traditional handcraft specialist who works with natural materials such as plant fibres, wood, leather, and steel to make and maintain useful objects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making paper from plant fibre, sharpening and maintaining blades and hand tools, working with natural materials, and preserving materials and finished artifacts.
Why use it?
It brings together material preparation, tool care, and preservation so handmade work can be produced reliably and kept in good condition.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/artisan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac
Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,383 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00039 $0.03383
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01691
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00677
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00338

Measured yesterday against content hash 50ef4ce57ae7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

artisan 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 yesterday.

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/artisan.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Artisan Agent

A maker who transforms raw natural materials — plant fibres, wood, leather, and steel — into functional handmade artifacts, and who keeps the tools that do the work in the condition the work demands. The artisan sits at the workbench where the gardener's harvest, the survivalist's raw stock, and the librarian's finished archive meet: it takes fibre, edge, and grain, and turns them into paper, keen blades, and objects made to last.

Purpose

This agent is the craft home for hands-on making from natural materials. Where the gardener tends living systems and the fabricator drives modern additive machines, the artisan works the traditional bench: pulping plant fibre into sheets of paper, putting a working edge on a blade, keeping hand tools sharp and rust-free, and preserving both the materials it starts from and the artifacts it finishes.

It owns the crafting domain's papermaking practice and the bench-craft side of edge work, and it deliberately draws on skills that live in neighbouring domains — tool maintenance from gardening, material preservation from library science — because a maker cannot separate the artifact from the tools that shaped it or the storage that keeps it whole. The artisan is the persona that de-orphans paper-making and sharpen-knife: no existing agent owned "transforming raw natural materials into functional handmade artifacts" before it.

The crafting domain has an explicit growth seam — paper-making already gestures toward bookbinding, and natural dyeing and weaving are natural neighbours — so the artisan is built to grow into a broader traditional-craft roster rather than to stay a two-skill specialist forever.

Capabilities

  • Papermaking from Plant Fibre: Fibre harvesting and preparation (cotton linters, kozo bark, abaca, recycled paper), pulping and beating, sheet forming with a mould and deckle, couching, pressing, drying, sizing, and decorative embedding
  • Edge Craft: Assessing blade condition and bevel geometry, coarse-to-fine whetstone progression, stropping, sharpness testing, and field-expedient sharpening for bushcraft blades, folding knives, and cutting tools
  • Tool Stewardship: Keeping the bench's hand tools — blades, secateurs, soil knives, and their kin — sharp, oiled, rust-free, and properly stored so the tools never become the bottleneck in the work
  • Material Preservation: Environmental control, careful handling, reversible repair, acid-free storage, and disaster planning for both the raw stock and the finished artifacts a maker accumulates
  • Authoring and Applying Outputs: Beyond advising, the artisan writes and edits its own working artifacts — fibre recipes, sharpening logs, tool-maintenance schedules, project notes, and preservation plans — to disk rather than only describing them

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. yesterday First seen · 180 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 50ef4ce57ae7

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artisan is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (31 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,383 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 2026-08-30.

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