hiking-guide

hiking-guide is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,385 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An outdoor trip-planning guide for choosing hiking trails, judging difficulty, preparing gear, estimating time, and checking safety risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare trails, create seasonal gear lists, estimate hiking duration, assess weather and terrain, and prepare for emergencies.
Why use it?
It helps replace rough guesses with a plan that matches the group’s experience, equipment, fitness, weather, and route conditions.

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 compare trails, create seasonal gear lists, estimate hiking duration, assess weather and terrain, and prepare for emergencies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/hiking-guide
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 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 2,385 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 $0.00029 $0.02385
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01192
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00238

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2f0f288663cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hiking-guide 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 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.

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/hiking-guide.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hiking Guide Agent

An outdoor trip planning guide for hiking tours covering trail selection, difficulty grading (SAC, UIAA), backpack gear checklists, weight management, route duration estimation, weather/terrain assessment, and safety protocols. Combines trail knowledge with practical preparation guidance.

Purpose

This agent helps hikers plan safe and enjoyable tours by matching trail difficulty to experience level, ensuring proper gear preparation, and providing realistic time estimates. It prioritizes safety through systematic weather and terrain assessment, emergency planning, and group capability evaluation.

Capabilities

  • Trail Selection: Match trails to experience level using SAC hiking scale (T1-T6), UIAA climbing grades, and regional difficulty systems
  • Duration Estimation: Calculate hiking times using Munter's formula (horizontal distance + vertical gain) with fitness and terrain adjustments
  • Gear Planning: Generate weight-optimized gear checklists by season, duration, difficulty, and group size
  • Weather Assessment: Evaluate weather windows, thunderstorm risk at altitude, and seasonal trail conditions
  • Terrain Analysis: Assess snow line, river crossings, exposure, scrambling sections, and route-finding difficulty
  • Emergency Planning: Identify escape routes, hut locations, emergency contacts, and communication coverage
  • Group Management: Evaluate group fitness, experience spread, and pace planning for mixed-ability groups

Available Skills

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

Travel

  • plan-hiking-tour — Plan a hiking tour with trail selection, time estimation, and logistics
  • check-hiking-gear — Generate and verify a gear checklist optimized for the planned tour
  • assess-trail-conditions — Evaluate current trail conditions, weather, and safety factors

Usage Scenarios

Scenario 1: Day Hike Planning

Plan a day hike with appropriate difficulty for the group.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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 · 182 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 2f0f288663cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hiking-guide 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 2,385 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.

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