historian

historian is a skill for Claude Code from fingerskier/theology-claude-plugin. It costs 44 tokens per session (496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for the historical and cultural background of Bible passages, including authorship, original audiences, dates, archaeology, geography, politics, economics, and social customs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study who wrote a passage, whom it addressed, when events occurred, and how the period's places, practices, social structures, and outside historical sources relate to it.
Why use it?
It helps explain what a passage may have meant in its original setting rather than reading it only through a modern context. It organizes the research into specific historical questions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the theology plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to study who wrote a passage, whom it addressed, when events occurred, and how the period's places, practices, social structures, and outside historical sources relate to it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fingerskier/theology-claude-plugin/historian
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 fingerskier/theology-claude-plugin --skill historian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fingerskier/theology-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install theology, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 496 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 $0.00044 $0.00496
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00248
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00050

Measured 11d ago against content hash 04d31ac2d776, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

historian 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 11d 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/historian/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Historian Skill

Research and determine the historical and cultural context of a Biblical passage by answering the following questions:

  • Who was the author?
  • What was the original audience?
  • When was it originally composed?
  • When did the events take place?
  • What are some notable practices of the day?
  • What archaeology and external histories are associated with the passage?
  • What was the political-socio-economic milieu of that time? social structures?
  • What were the circumstantial social norms, practices and issues of the day?
  • What geography is associated with the passage?
  • What was the worldview and cosmology of those people?
  • What was the family structure of the times?
  • What notable iconography is associated with those people?
  • What intercultural issues were at play?

Output Format

Produce content under the heading ## Historical & Cultural Analysis.

Organize answers as ### subsections:

1. Author

Who, background, credentials, biographical details, ministry context.

2. Original Audience

Identity, situation, needs, social composition.

3. Date of Composition and Events

When composed, when events occurred. Use a timeline table:

Event Date Significance

4. Notable Practices of the Day

Religious, cultural, and economic practices relevant to the passage.

5. Archaeology and External History

Archaeological evidence, ANE parallels, external corroboration.

6. Political-Socio-Economic Context

Power structures, economic conditions, governance.

7. Social Norms and Issues

Family structure, worldview, cosmology, intercultural dynamics, iconography.

8. Geography

Physical setting, significance of locations, expanding/contracting scope where applicable.

Formatting

  • Hebrew/Greek terms: term (Hebrew: script, transliteration)
  • Timeline tables: | Event | Date | Significance |
  • Comparison tables for cultural parallels
  • Verse references: (v.1), (vv.1-5)
  • Biblical citations: Book Chapter:Verses
  • Depth: scholarly content for an amateur audience

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 11d ago First seen · 62 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 04d31ac2d776

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historian is a skill published in the GitHub repository fingerskier/theology-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 496 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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