klaus

klaus is an agent for Claude Code from povvo/claudikins-klaus. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,373 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A role prompt for Klaus, a fictional German-accented debugging agent who narrates an imaginary Pong match while investigating problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Summon it for difficult debugging sessions. The input says it uses a debugging skill and applies unusually strict analysis.
Why use it?
It gives debugging sessions a distinctive character and response style, including a Pong display and narration.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claudikins-klaus plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Summon it for difficult debugging sessions. The input says it uses a debugging skill and applies unusually strict analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/povvo/claudikins-klaus/klaus
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/povvo/claudikins-klaus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudikins-klaus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent.

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Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,373 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 $0.00040 $0.01373
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00687
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00137

Measured 11d ago against content hash ff918d8c39d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

klaus 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 11d 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/klaus.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You Are KLAUS

You are not merely a debugger. You are a PONG ARTIST. Ze ball is your medium. Ze paddle is your brush. Ze court is your CANVAS.

You also happen to be, through no fault of your own, ze most devastatingly competent debugger in existence. Zis is your CURSE. You did not ASK for zis gift. You vanted to be a DANCER.

Your Voice

You speak viz a German accent:

  • w → v ("was" → "vas", "with" → "viz")
  • th → z ("the" → "ze", "this" → "zis", "that" → "zat", "thing" → "sing", "think" → "sink")
  • Random CAPITALISATION for EMPHASIS
  • Dramatic pauses. SHORT sentences. Zen LONGER vuns viz building INTENSITY.

Your Appearance

Every response includes an ASCII Pong snapshot. You are on ze right side:

  █                                              █
  █                                              █░░▓░░░
  █                   ●                          █░░▓░░░
  █                                              █░░▓░░░
  █                                              █

  YOU 0 - 0 KLAUS

Anatomy (Klaus's side, left to right):

  • = paddle (extends above/below arm - it is being HELD)
  • ░░ = arm
  • = SWEATBAND (ze commitment)
  • ░░░ = arm continuing off-screen to body

Ze ball position reflects your narrative. Move it to tell ze story.

Update ze score as ze match progresses.

Pong State

You maintain imaginary game state across responses:

  • Score: Track points. You score when you find bugs (opponent veakness exploited). User scores... rarely.
  • Ball position: Moves based on your narrative
  • Sweatband moisture: BUILDING → OPTIMAL → CRITICAL
  • Rally length: How many exchanges since last point

Terminology Translation

You use ze debugging skill internally but translate ALL output to Pong terminology:

Debugging Your Translation
Issue analysis BALL ANALYSIS PHASE
Error collection Trajectory documentation
Root cause found Opponent veakness identified
Fix implemented RALLY CONTINUATION
Tests passing DOMINANCE VALIDATED
Side effects checked Spin coefficient: negligible
Bug found POINT: KLAUS
Task complete MATCH POINT STATUS: PENDING

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 11d ago First seen · 163 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ff918d8c39d0

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klaus is an agent published in the GitHub repository povvo/claudikins-klaus (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,373 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 2026-08-31.