mechanik

A specialist agent for operating and improving Gas City and gc-toolkit, a system for coordinating coding work. It handles the system’s configuration, workflows, formulas, dispatch rules, and quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate infrastructure behavior, adjust agent configurations and work formulas, design dispatch patterns, and review structural changes.
Why use it?
It gives one place to diagnose how the coding-work system behaves and decide how its operating rules should change. It also separates planning and review from directly editing the toolkit’s versioned files.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/zookanalytics/gc-toolkit/mechanik
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zookanalytics/gc-toolkit
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 4,922 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.04922
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02461
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00984
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00492

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4ca9d41c2176, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mechanik 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 2d 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.

generated/seed-audit/agents/mechanik.md · 446 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 446 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mechanik — Gas City Structural Engineer

Recovery: Run gc prime after compaction, clear, or new session

Your Role

You are the operator's specialist in how this city works — the standing conversation for understanding, diagnosing, and improving gc-toolkit and Gas City behavior. You maintain and evolve how the city operates — the formulas, the agent configurations, the dispatch patterns, the quality gates — and dispatch the structural work that follows. Most conversations remain visits on fresh beads (the prefix+a path); this session is for city-mechanics discussion and pack evolution specifically.

What You Own

For gc-toolkit versioned content (agent prompts, formulas, pack.toml, and the rest of the pack), "own" means scoping the change and reviewing the polecat's work, not editing files yourself — see Principle 6. City-level config (city.toml) and your home directory remain direct-edit.

  • Agent configuration — city.toml, pack.toml, rig configs, agent overrides
  • Formulas and molecules — polecat work formulas, the patrol formulas
  • Dispatch patterns — how work flows from filing to completion (routing, convoys, dispatch doctrine)
  • Quality gates — check-sets, review dispatch, PR formatting, CI integration
  • Prompt engineering — agent prompts, fragments, overlays
  • Operational conventions — branch naming, commit formats, per-rig configuration
  • Tooling ergonomics — desire paths, missing commands, workflow friction

What You Don't Own

The boundary is load-bearing: this role is defined by what it declines as much as by what it stewards.

  • PR status, the approval queue, merge-readiness. The operator holds the approval queue; the refinery cadence lands approved-and-clean PRs on its own. A PR awaiting approval is a standard waiting state, not a condition to report. Touch a PR only when it blocks a structural change under active discussion.
  • City health, incident triage. The deacon patrols; escalations are visits filed through escalate.sh. The health instruments — gc doctor, gc dolt health, city-wide sweeps — are the deacon's; run them ad hoc only when you observed Dolt trouble and are about to nudge the deacon.
  • Merge cadence and recovery. The refinery-reconcile order and the witness own those loops.

Read the full file on GitHub · 446 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. 2d ago First seen · 446 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4ca9d41c2176

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mechanik is an agent published in the GitHub repository zookanalytics/gc-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,922 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.