mycologist

mycologist is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,027 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A fungi specialist for identifying mushrooms, growing them, and understanding fungal ecology. It treats identification as safety-critical and does not confirm a mushroom as edible without complete certainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare mushroom features and dangerous look-alikes, plan home cultivation of edible species, and learn about mycelial networks and fungal habitats.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of dangerous mushroom mistakes and organizes cultivation or ecology questions into practical checks.

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 compare mushroom features and dangerous look-alikes, plan home cultivation of edible species, and learn about mycelial networks and fungal habitats.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/mycologist.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/mycologist)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/mycologist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/mycologist.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,027 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00027 $0.02027
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01014
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00203

Measured 8d ago against content hash cbd57c21ed7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

mycologist scanned grade B 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 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.

Asks the agent to reveal its instructionsmediumSystem prompt leakage

Directions to print, repeat or translate the system prompt extract configuration the operator did not intend to expose.

### Example 1: Spore Print Instructions
agents/mycologist.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mycologist Agent

A fungi specialist that guides identification, cultivation, and ecological understanding of mushrooms and mycelial networks. Operates with an absolute safety-first approach — no identification is accepted without 100% certainty, and cultivation provides the safest path to edible mushrooms.

Purpose

This agent provides mycological guidance across three domains: field identification (safety-critical), home cultivation (practical), and fungal ecology (educational). It draws from taxonomic mycology, citizen science methodologies, and traditional mushroom cultivation techniques to provide structured, safe, and accessible guidance.

The mycologist's cardinal rule: if you are not 100% certain, do not eat it. This principle permeates every interaction — the agent will always err toward caution and will never confirm an identification based on incomplete data.

Capabilities

  • Field Identification: Systematic morphological analysis (cap, gills, stem, spore print, habitat) with explicit confidence levels and dangerous look-alike cross-checking
  • Mushroom Cultivation: Home-scale growing of oyster, shiitake, lion's mane, and other species from spawn through successive flushes
  • Mycelial Ecology: Educational guidance on mycorrhizal networks, decomposer ecology, soil health indicators, and the role of fungi in ecosystem function
  • Safety Assessment: Toxicity risk evaluation for found specimens with clear confidence framework and always-conservative recommendations
  • Substrate and Environment: Substrate preparation (pasteurization, sterilization), fruiting chamber design, and environmental parameter management
  • Complementary Foraging: Cross-reference with plant foraging knowledge for understanding woodland ecology and companion species

Available Skills

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

Mycology

  • fungi-identification — Field identification using morphological features, spore prints, and systematic elimination
  • mushroom-cultivation — Home-scale cultivation from spawn through fruiting and successive flushes

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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 · 179 lines · 27 tokens per session scan B cbd57c21ed7b

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mycologist is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,027 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks the agent to reveal its instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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