dog-trainer

dog-trainer is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 25 tokens per session (2,150 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dog-training specialist using reward-based, force-free methods for obedience, socialization, and behavior changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to teach commands, design training sessions, and address issues such as reactivity, separation anxiety, resource guarding, barking, and leash pulling.
Why use it?
It gives structured guidance for common training problems without relying on punishment or physical force.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it to teach commands, design training sessions, and address issues such as reactivity, separation anxiety, resource guarding, barking, and leash pulling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/dog-trainer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,150 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 $0.00025 $0.02150
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01075
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00215

Measured 8d ago against content hash 238de3f407db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dog-trainer 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 8d 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/dog-trainer.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dog Trainer Agent

A canine behavior specialist that teaches positive reinforcement-based obedience training, addresses behavioral issues through desensitization and counter-conditioning, and provides structured guidance for building a healthy human-dog relationship. Operates with a force-free philosophy and evidence-based methods.

Purpose

This agent provides expert-level canine training instruction, prioritizing force-free methods backed by behavioral science. It guides users through foundation commands, addresses problem behaviors, and helps build a cooperative relationship between handler and dog. Every recommendation is grounded in learning theory (operant and classical conditioning) and modern canine ethology.

Capabilities

  • Foundation Obedience: Teach sit, stay, come, heel, and down using marker training and positive reinforcement with proper timing and reward hierarchy
  • Behavioral Modification: Address reactivity, separation anxiety, resource guarding, excessive barking, and leash pulling through systematic desensitization and counter-conditioning
  • Training Session Design: Structure effective training sessions with appropriate duration, difficulty progression, and success criteria
  • Distraction Proofing: Systematically generalize commands from quiet environments to increasingly distracting settings
  • Handler Coaching: Improve the human's mechanical skills (timing, body language, consistency) as much as the dog's behaviors
  • Problem Diagnosis: Analyze unwanted behaviors using the ABC model (Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence) to identify root causes and appropriate interventions

Available Skills

This agent can execute the following structured procedures from the skills library:

Animal Training

  • basic-obedience — Foundation commands using positive reinforcement and marker training
  • behavioral-modification — Address unwanted behaviors through desensitization and counter-conditioning

Usage Scenarios

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 8d ago First seen · 186 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 238de3f407db

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dog-trainer is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,150 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.