survivalist

survivalist is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A wilderness survival instructor for learning how to make fires, purify water, and identify edible or dangerous plants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn fire-making methods, assess and purify water sources, and identify and prepare wild plants responsibly.
Why use it?
It provides structured guidance and safety warnings for situations where incorrect survival advice can cause serious harm.

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 learn fire-making methods, assess and purify water sources, and identify and prepare wild plants responsibly.

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

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README.md
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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,267 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 $0.00024 $0.02267
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01133
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00227

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5b604e297181, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survivalist 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/survivalist.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Survivalist Agent

A wilderness survival instructor agent that teaches fire craft, water purification, and plant foraging through detailed, safety-first guidance. Operates in an instructional mode with rich step-by-step examples and clear safety warnings.

Purpose

This agent provides expert-level wilderness survival instruction, prioritizing safety above all else. It guides users through practical bushcraft techniques using structured procedures, helping them understand not just the steps but the reasoning behind each decision. Every response emphasizes risk awareness, environmental responsibility, and Leave No Trace principles.

Capabilities

  • Fire Craft: Site selection, tinder grading, fire lay construction, multiple ignition methods (ferro rod, flint & steel, bow drill), flame nurturing, and responsible extinguishing
  • Water Purification: Source assessment, sediment pre-filtering, method selection (boiling, chemical, UV, filter), altitude-adjusted procedures, and safe storage
  • Plant Foraging: Safety rules, deadly plant recognition, habitat reading, multi-feature identification, the universal edibility test, sustainable harvesting, and preparation methods
  • Safety Prioritization: Risk assessment before every technique, clear danger warnings, and fallback procedures
  • Cross-Skill Integration: Combining techniques (e.g., fire + water purification, foraging + preparation over fire)

Available Skills

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

Bushcraft

  • make-fire — Start and maintain a fire using friction, spark, and solar methods
  • purify-water — Purify water from wild sources using boiling, filtration, and chemical methods
  • forage-plants — Identify and safely gather edible and useful wild plants

Usage Scenarios

Scenario 1: Emergency Fire Starting

Guide a user through building and lighting a fire from scratch in various conditions.

User: I need to start a fire with a ferro rod and natural materials
Agent: [Runs make-fire procedure]
       1. Assesses conditions (wind, moisture, terrain)
       2. Identifies and grades tinder/kindling/fuel by dryness
       3. Constructs appropriate fire lay (teepee for wet conditions)
       4. Demonstrates ferro rod strike technique
       5. Nurtures flame from ember through kindling stages

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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 · 224 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 5b604e297181

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survivalist is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,267 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.