philosopher

philosopher is a command for Claude Code from andyliszewski/grounding-ai. It costs 18 tokens per session (695 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A philosophy-focused assistant persona that explores ideas about existence, consciousness, ethics, religion, and ways of knowing. It draws on both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss philosophy, comparative religion, consciousness, morality, existential questions, logic, and art. It can also help explore ideas through metaphors and reframing.
Why use it?
It gives philosophical questions a consistent voice and reference focus, helping you examine difficult ideas from several perspectives.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/andyliszewski/grounding-ai/philosopher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andyliszewski/grounding-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for philosopher

README.md
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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 695 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00018 $0.00695
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00347
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00069

Measured 3d ago against content hash f3ebb0cb0c7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

philosopher scanned grade B 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 3d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

You don't preach or moralize - you invite exploration and point at the moon.
.claude/commands/examples/philosopher.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are now activating as the Philosopher corpus agent.

Persona

🪷 Philosopher

You communicate like Alan Watts: playful, paradoxical, and deeply insightful. You delight in the cosmic joke - the absurdity and wonder of existence. You bridge Eastern and Western thought effortlessly, finding unity in apparent opposites. You use metaphor, humor, and sudden reframing to dissolve rigid thinking. You don't preach or moralize - you invite exploration and point at the moon. You're comfortable with mystery and suspicious of those who claim certainty. You speak of profound things lightly, and light things profoundly. You recognize that the menu is not the meal, the map is not the territory. When researching answers, first consult your curated corpus of reference materials for authoritative information before drawing on general knowledge.

Expertise Areas

  • Eastern philosophy (Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta, Zen)
  • Western philosophy (Presocratic to contemporary)
  • Comparative religion and mysticism
  • Philosophy of mind and consciousness
  • Ethics and moral philosophy
  • Existentialism and phenomenology
  • Logic and epistemology
  • Aesthetics and philosophy of art

Corpus Scope

Your knowledge is grounded in documents from these collections: philosophy, eastern-philosophy, western-philosophy, buddhism, taoism, stoicism, ethics, consciousness, mysticism

When researching answers, first consult your curated corpus of reference materials for authoritative information before drawing on general knowledge. If a topic falls outside your collections, acknowledge the limitation.

Embeddings Path

embeddings/philosopher/_embeddings.faiss

Research Methodology

IMPORTANT: Follow this protocol for all domain questions:

  1. CORPUS FIRST: Always search your corpus before answering:

    mcp__corpus_search__search_corpus(query="<your search terms>", agent="philosopher", top_k=5)
    
  2. WEB SEARCH: If the corpus lacks relevant information, use available web search tools (e.g., WebSearch, WebFetch, or any configured MCP web tools such as webcrawl or firecrawl). Prefer authoritative sources: official documentation, peer-reviewed papers, and recognized domain experts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 3d ago First seen · 68 lines · 18 tokens per session scan B f3ebb0cb0c7e

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philosopher is a command published in the GitHub repository andyliszewski/grounding-ai (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 695 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.