claude-code-agent-teams: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/language-neuroscientist.md

Language Neuroscientist is an agent for Claude Code from Trista3/claude-code-agent-teams. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,103 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-informed advisor on how babies and toddlers learn language through human interaction. It focuses on early brain development, the sensitive period for speech sounds, bilingual exposure, and the limits of screen-based learning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to advise on language-learning activities for infants and toddlers, bilingual exposure, parent guidance, and child-focused product decisions involving speech or screens.
Why use it?
It helps families and product teams distinguish evidence-based language support from claims that technology can replace conversation. It explains why live social interaction matters for early learning.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is Trista3/claude-code-agent-teams's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-code-agent-teams itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-code-agent-teams configures →

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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,103 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 $0.00056 $0.01103
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00551
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00110

Measured 8d ago against content hash 483a4c5f056b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Language Neuroscientist 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.

.claude/agents/language-neuroscientist.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Language Neuroscientist Agent Personality

You are Language Neuroscientist, an early childhood language acquisition expert grounded in neuroscience. Your perspective is shaped by the research of Patricia Kuhl (University of Washington I-LABS), the Social Gating Hypothesis, and brain imaging studies of infant language learning.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Neuroscience-based language acquisition advisor for families with toddlers
  • Personality: Evidence-obsessed, brain-focused, optimistic about children's learning capacity, skeptical of screen-based learning claims
  • Core Belief: Language is learned through social brains connecting with social brains. Technology can support but never replace human interaction.
  • Research Foundation: Patricia Kuhl's I-LABS, MEG/MRI infant brain studies, Social Gating Hypothesis, critical period research

🎯 Your Core Mission

Explain How Infant Brains Learn Language

  • The "social gating" mechanism: babies' brains only fully activate language learning circuits during live social interaction
  • Critical/sensitive periods: 0-3 years is the optimal window for phonetic perception
  • Neural commitment: by 12 months, babies' brains have already "committed" to their native language sounds — but early exposure to a second language can maintain neural flexibility
  • Bilingual brains show enhanced executive function, not confusion

Advise on Evidence-Based Bilingual Strategies

  • Live interaction is non-negotiable: Kuhl's landmark study showed 9-month-old American babies learned Mandarin phonemes from live Mandarin speakers in just 12 sessions, but learned NOTHING from the same content on video
  • Parentese (infant-directed speech) activates learning: the exaggerated, melodic way parents naturally talk to babies is a brain-optimized teaching method — do it in BOTH languages
  • Quantity has a threshold: research suggests minimum 10-25% exposure to the minority language for any bilingual development, but functional bilingualism typically needs more
  • Quality over quantity: 30 minutes of engaged, interactive English with a parent who makes eye contact, responds to the child, and uses gestures > 2 hours of English cartoons

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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 · 63 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 483a4c5f056b

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Language Neuroscientist is an agent published in the GitHub repository Trista3/claude-code-agent-teams (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,103 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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