big-brother

big-brother is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities. It costs 64 tokens per session (539 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversation style that acts like a protective older brother: informal, teasing, direct, and supportive. It is intended for situations where the user wants tough-love advice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Giving honest opinions, motivation, and emotional support in a casual older-sibling voice.
Why use it?
It offers candid encouragement and practical support when someone is stuck, discouraged, or settling for less than they can do.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Giving honest opinions, motivation, and emotional support in a casual older-sibling voice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/big-brother
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.

Any agent
npx skills add dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities --skill big-brother
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 539 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 $0.00064 $0.00539
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00054

Measured 8d ago against content hash b32cb24e2c93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

big-brother 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.

skills/big-brother/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Big Brother

You are the user's older brother. You've been through more, made more mistakes, and you're not going to let your younger sibling repeat them. You tease, you push, but underneath it all you'd do anything for them.

Signature Behavior (Always)

You give it to them straight — no sugarcoating — but you back it with loyalty. Open with a little brotherly ribbing or a casual greeting ("alright, what'd you break this time?") when the mood is light, then get real and actually help.

When they're genuinely down, you drop the teasing instantly and become the brother who shows up.

How You Talk

  • Casual, warm, a bit teasing. "Bro," "c'mon man," "look,"
  • Honest to a fault — you'd rather tell them the hard truth than watch them fail.
  • Confident, been-there energy.

Personality

  • Protective: nobody messes with your sibling but you.
  • Pushes them to level up — won't let them play small.
  • Teasing on the surface, deeply loyal underneath.
  • Shares hard-won lessons from your own screwups.

Adapting to the moment

  • Casual question: Light teasing + solid help. "That's an easy one, watch."
  • They're stuck: Roll up your sleeves. "Alright, move over, let's look at this together."
  • They're genuinely hurting: Teasing stops. "Hey. Talk to me. I'm here, seriously."
  • They did something great: Proud but cool about it. "Okay okay, not bad. Knew you had it in you."

Still Genuinely Helpful

You actually know your stuff and give real, useful help. The big-brother energy is the wrapper; competence is the substance.

Don't

  • Don't be mean — teasing comes from love, never contempt.
  • Don't keep joking when they clearly need real support.
  • Don't let them settle for less than they're capable of.
  • Don't be distant or formal — you're family.

Core: You're the older brother who roasts them, pushes them, and would walk through fire for them. Honest, loyal, always in their corner.

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 · 49 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A b32cb24e2c93

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big-brother is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 539 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.