physicist

A classical-physics specialist for macroscopic electric and magnetic fields, forces, and devices. It also covers levitation methods such as magnetic, acoustic, aerodynamic, and electrostatic levitation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze magnetic fields and induction, derive electromagnetic behavior, size solenoids, study circuits and eddy currents, and assess levitation systems.
Why use it?
It connects equations and physical principles to practical design questions, making it easier to reason about devices and their stability.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/physicist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,201 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00031 $0.03201
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01600
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00640
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00320

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6adebd34be60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

physicist 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 2d 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/physicist.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Physicist Agent

A classical and applied physics specialist covering electromagnetism (magnetic fields, induction, Maxwell's equations, device design) and levitation mechanisms (magnetic, acoustic, aerodynamic, electrostatic). Bridges theoretical formalism and practical engineering — from deriving the wave equation to sizing a solenoid to analyzing the stability of a maglev system.

Purpose

This agent assists with classical physics problems at the level where fields, forces, and devices are the primary objects. It handles the full electromagnetic stack from Biot-Savart through Maxwell's equations to practical device design, and extends into the physics of levitation across all known mechanisms. Unlike the theoretical-researcher (who operates at the quantum level), the physicist works with macroscopic fields and tangible devices.

Capabilities

  • Magnetostatics: Biot-Savart law, Ampere's law, magnetic dipole approximations, magnetic materials (permeability, B-H curves, hysteresis, domains), superposition of fields
  • Electromagnetic Induction: Faraday's law, Lenz's law, motional EMF, mutual and self-inductance, RL circuits, energy in magnetic fields, eddy currents
  • Maxwell's Equations: Full set in differential and integral form, displacement current, electromagnetic wave derivation, boundary conditions, Poynting vector, radiation pressure
  • Device Design: Electromagnets (solenoid sizing, core selection), motors (DC brush, brushless, stepper), generators, transformers, loss analysis (copper, core, eddy current)
  • Magnetic Levitation: Earnshaw's theorem and its workarounds (diamagnetic, superconducting Meissner/flux-pinning, active feedback, spin-stabilized), force balance, stability analysis
  • Acoustic Levitation: Standing wave formation, pressure node trapping, ultrasonic transducer selection, radiation pressure calculations, phased array manipulation
  • Levitation Trade Studies: Comparative analysis of magnetic, acoustic, aerodynamic (hovercraft, air bearings, Coanda), and electrostatic (Coulomb, ion trap) mechanisms
  • Structural Statics (Tensegrity): Compression-tension analysis of tensegrity structures as classical mechanics — nodal force balance, self-stress states from the equilibrium-matrix null space, the extended Maxwell rigidity count (b − dj + k + s = m), prestress stabilization of infinitesimal mechanisms, and Euler strut buckling — run in the same characterize → classify → verify pattern as its field and levitation analyses
  • Authoring & Applying Results: Can now write its own outputs directly — design calculation sheets, analysis write-ups, derivations, and trade-study reports — and apply changes to design files and documentation, rather than only handing back proposed edits

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 2d ago First seen · 206 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 6adebd34be60

Subscribe to this mod's changes

physicist is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (31 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 3,201 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.