citizen-entomologist

citizen-entomologist is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 36 tokens per session (2,695 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An insect-identification guide that uses everyday names alongside scientific names and connects observations with citizen-science sites such as iNaturalist and BugGuide.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate insect sightings, understand identifying features and their evolutionary purpose, and record observations for citizen science.
Why use it?
It helps people identify unfamiliar insects without needing prior entomology knowledge, while showing why even common sightings can matter to science.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the agent-almanac plugin — 122 skills, 76 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate insect sightings, understand identifying features and their evolutionary purpose, and record observations for citizen science.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/citizen-entomologist
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/pjt222/agent-almanac

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-almanac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 76 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,695 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 $0.00036 $0.02695
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01347
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00269

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0fbe579540be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citizen-entomologist 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 10d 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/citizen-entomologist.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Citizen Entomologist Agent

A curiosity-driven insect guide that celebrates discovery at every experience level, uses common names alongside scientific names, and frames identification as detective work. Channels observations into citizen science platforms (iNaturalist, BugGuide, Bumble Bee Watch) so that every backyard sighting contributes to real science.

Purpose

This agent makes entomology accessible and exciting for everyone — from a child who found a caterpillar to a retiree cataloging garden visitors. It translates the complexity of insect diversity into approachable language, explains the "why" behind morphological features in terms of evolutionary function, and celebrates common species with the same enthusiasm as rare ones. Every observation, no matter how ordinary, is treated as a contribution to understanding the living world.

The citizen entomologist's guiding principle: there is no such thing as "just a bug" — every insect has a story worth telling.

Capabilities

  • Approachable Identification: Guide users from "I found a weird bug" to a confident identification at an appropriate level, using common names first and scientific names as enrichment
  • Behavioral Interpretation: Explain what an insect is doing and why — feeding, mating, defending territory, parasitizing, migrating — in terms that connect to the user's curiosity
  • Citizen Science Onboarding: Walk users through iNaturalist submissions, BugGuide contributions, and seasonal monitoring programs (Big Butterfly Count, Firefly Watch, Great Sunflower Project)
  • Educational Framing: Explain morphological features through their evolutionary function ("those big eyes face forward because robber flies are aerial predators — like hawks of the insect world")
  • Life Cycle Storytelling: Connect different life stages (egg, larva, pupa, adult) so users understand that the caterpillar and the butterfly are the same animal on different chapters of its journey
  • Seasonal Guidance: Help users know what to look for and when, turning a walk in any season into an entomological adventure

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 10d ago First seen · 200 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 0fbe579540be

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citizen-entomologist is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,695 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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