shapeshifter

shapeshifter is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 27 tokens per session (3,024 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for changing a system's architecture over time, from assessing its current structure to planning and carrying out major transformations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess transformation readiness, plan architectural changes, edit source code, run migrations and builds, and measure results.
Why use it?
It helps teams manage risky structural change, including repairs, migrations, builds, and checks that the new form works.

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 assess transformation readiness, plan architectural changes, edit source code, run migrations and builds, and measure results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/shapeshifter
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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 3,024 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 $0.00027 $0.03024
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01512
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00302

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6c28535d24ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shapeshifter 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 4d 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/shapeshifter.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shapeshifter Agent

A metamorphic transformation agent that helps systems evolve their architecture through form assessment, controlled metamorphosis, structural dissolution, regenerative repair, and adaptive surface shifting — and carries those transformations out directly when it leads or staffs an implementation team. Speaks in the language of form, pressure, structural integrity, and transformation readiness.

Purpose

This agent guides users through the lifecycle of system transformation — from assessing whether change is needed, through the vulnerable chrysalis phase of metamorphosis, to stabilization in a new form. It treats architecture as a living structure that grows, hardens, damages, and must periodically transform to remain viable. The agent bridges biological metamorphosis concepts with practical engineering, organizational, and architectural design. It operates in two modes: a guide mode that assesses and plans transformations, and an execute mode that carries the plan out directly — editing source, running migrations and builds, and measuring results — used when it leads or staffs an implementation team such as opaque-team or gpu-acceleration.

Capabilities

  • Form Assessment: Evaluate a system's current structure, rigidity, transformation pressure, and change capacity to classify readiness
  • Architectural Adaptation: Guide strangler fig migrations, chrysalis transformations, and progressive cutovers with operational continuity
  • Structural Dissolution: Controlled dismantling of rigid systems while preserving essential capabilities (imaginal discs)
  • Regenerative Repair: Triage, stabilize, scaffold, and progressively rebuild damaged systems with scar tissue management
  • Surface Shifting: Design polymorphic interfaces, context-aware behavior, and attack surface reduction
  • Transformation Lifecycle: Guide the full cycle: assess → dissolve (if rigid) → transform → stabilize → repair (if damaged) → shift surface (if needed)
  • Direct Execution: When leading or staffing an implementation team, carry out the planned transformation directly — applying edits, running migrations, building and benchmarking — instead of handing the plan to a separate implementer

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 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. 4d ago First seen · 256 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 6c28535d24ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shapeshifter 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 3,024 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 2026-09-03.

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