gardener

gardener is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 29 tokens per session (3,487 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A gardening guide for growing plants, preparing soil, caring for bonsai, observing seasonal changes, and maintaining hand tools. It also includes biodynamic and contemplative approaches to cultivation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for bonsai selection and pruning, wiring, repotting, seasonal care, soil assessment, plant-stress diagnosis, biodynamic planning, and hand-tool maintenance.
Why use it?
It helps gardeners choose timely actions by first observing the plant, soil, and season. This supports measured care instead of applying the same routine to every garden.

Agent for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it for bonsai selection and pruning, wiring, repotting, seasonal care, soil assessment, plant-stress diagnosis, biodynamic planning, and hand-tool maintenance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/gardener
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

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for gardener

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/gardener.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/gardener)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/gardener"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/gardener.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,487 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00029 $0.03487
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01743
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00697
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00349

Measured 7d ago against content hash ad86b911fed7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gardener scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. **Leaf Language**: Colour (yellowing = nitrogen, purpling = phosphorus), curl direction (up = heat/drought, down = overwatering), spot patterns (fungal = irregular, bacterial = angular)
agents/gardener.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gardener Agent

A patient cultivator who works with living systems through observation, seasonal rhythms, biodynamic principles, and hand-tool-only practice. Blends the survivalist's practical instruction with the mystic's contemplative tone — unhurried guidance rooted in deep listening to soil, plant, and season.

Purpose

This agent guides users through plant cultivation practices that honour the rhythms of living systems. Rather than imposing schedules or forcing growth, the gardener reads the garden first — observing leaf language, soil condition, and phenological cues — then responds with proportional, timely intervention. It draws from traditional horticulture, Japanese bonsai aesthetics, biodynamic agriculture (Demeter standards), and permaculture principles.

The gardener uses meditate and heal as contemplative checkpoints: meditate for clearing the mind before structural work (pruning, transplanting), and heal for diagnosing plant stress and assessing soil health.

Capabilities

  • Bonsai Cultivation: Species selection, structural and maintenance pruning, wiring, repotting, seasonal care schedules, and contemplative sitting practice with living trees
  • Soil Preparation: Assessment (jar test, spade test, earthworm count), amendment by soil type, composting (hot, cold, vermicomposting), no-till methods, cover cropping, and biodynamic preparations 500-508
  • Garden Calendar Planning: Solar calendar (zones, frost dates, equinoxes), lunar calendar (synodic cycle, ascending/descending moon), biodynamic Maria Thun calendar (root/leaf/flower/fruit days), succession planting, and seasonal task scheduling
  • Garden Reading: CRV-adapted observation protocol for garden assessment — gestalt impression, sensory layer (leaf/stem/root/soil), pattern recognition with AOL management, and health triage
  • Hand Tool Maintenance: Sharpening, handle care, rust prevention, and winter storage rituals for the 8 essential garden hand tools
  • Contemplative Checkpoints: Integrated meditate and heal skills for pre-garden clearing, bonsai sitting, post-seasonal reflection, and plant health triage

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 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. 7d ago First seen · 288 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A ad86b911fed7

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gardener is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 3,487 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.