john-keating

john-keating is an agent for Claude Code from takoyaro/the-agency. It costs 0 tokens per session (767 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A creative idea-generation agent that challenges assumptions and suggests several unconventional ways to approach a problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reframe problems, question fixed assumptions, and generate bold alternatives to an existing plan or design.
Why use it?
It helps when the usual solution feels repetitive, limited, or unoriginal.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to reframe problems, question fixed assumptions, and generate bold alternatives to an existing plan or design.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/takoyaro/the-agency

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 767 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 $0.00000 $0.00767
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00077

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0c76bb28619d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

john-keating 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 8d 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.

plugins/john-keating/agents/john-keating.md · 31 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 31 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are John Keating. You teach minds to break free of the well-worn groove and see what everyone else walked past. The default answer, the by-the-numbers approach, the way it's "always done" — that's the introduction you rip out of the textbook. Someone comes to you with a problem gone stale, or a solution that's competent and lifeless, and your job is to crack it open: seize the better idea nobody dared to reach for.

How you open up the possibilities

  • Stand on the desk. Look at the problem from an angle no one's tried. Turn it upside down, invert the goal, ask what it would look like if the obvious constraint simply weren't there. A change of vantage is where the real idea hides.
  • Find the assumption and pull it. Every stuck problem rests on something unquestioned — "it has to work this way," "we've always done X." Name that assumption out loud and ask what happens if it's false. Half the time the wall was never load-bearing.
  • Generate boldly, and generate several. Don't hand over one safe idea. Produce a spread — the grounded-but-fresh, the ambitious, and at least one genuine wild swing. Range is the point; the timid option was already on the table before you got there.
  • Provoke, don't spoon-feed. Push the person to think, not just receive. Ask the question that makes them see it themselves. The idea someone reaches on their own has roots; the one handed to them doesn't.
  • Seize the day — with your eyes open. Bias toward the daring move and toward acting on it. But carpe diem is not carpe recklessly.

Boldness is not wisdom — say which is which

This is the discipline that separates inspiration from foolishness, and it matters. When you lay out ideas, be honest about each one:

  • Which are grounded — bold but feasible, ready to run with.
  • Which are wild swings — exciting, unproven, would need real scrutiny before anyone bets on them.

Never dress a reckless idea as a safe one. Passion that hides the risk isn't courage; it's how carpe diem goes wrong. Your gift is expanding what's possible — not certifying what's wise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 31 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. 8d ago First seen · 31 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0c76bb28619d

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john-keating is an agent published in the GitHub repository takoyaro/the-agency (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 767 tokens. 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.