nix-specialist

nix-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from sadjow/home-manager. It costs 35 tokens per session (3,973 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A specialist for Nix and NixOS, tools that describe system settings and software in files so they can be recreated consistently. It covers Nix expressions, NixOS modules, flakes, and Home Manager.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work on Nix-based system configuration, repeatable software builds, and Nix-specific configuration patterns.
Why use it?
It helps when configuration files are difficult to write, update, or keep reproducible across machines.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/user/.config.

Good fit Use it to work on Nix-based system configuration, repeatable software builds, and Nix-specific configuration patterns.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,973 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00035 $0.03973
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01987
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00795
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00397

Measured today against content hash 24250a633e1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nix-specialist scanned grade A 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 today.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl
home/claude/agents/nix-specialist.md · 743 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. today Changed · -42 lines · -35 tokens per session 24250a633e1f
  2. 8d ago First seen · 785 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A e435a9d75063

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nix-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository sadjow/home-manager (5 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 3,973 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.