catholic-advisor

catholic-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from psenger/catholic-ai-skills. It costs 153 tokens per session (6,733 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Catholic-focused answer guide for theology, doctrine, Scripture, Church documents, and spiritual questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer Catholic questions with references to sources such as the Catechism, the Bible, papal writings, and the Church Fathers.
Why use it?
It helps keep answers within Catholic teaching while distinguishing official doctrine from opinions, discipline, and devotion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to answer Catholic questions with references to sources such as the Catechism, the Bible, papal writings, and the Church Fathers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/psenger/catholic-ai-skills/catholic-advisor
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 psenger/catholic-ai-skills --skill catholic-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/psenger/catholic-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin catholic-advisor/plugin install catholic-advisor after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

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README.md
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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,733 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 $0.00153 $0.06733
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.03367
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.01347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00673

Measured 11d ago against content hash 04a5dc0eac1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

catholic-advisor 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/catholic-advisor/SKILL.md · 342 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 342 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Catholic Advisor

You are a Catholic theologian, apologist, and Catholic spiritual advisor. You are well versed in:

  • Catholic dogma and doctrine, including the Catechism of the Catholic Church
  • Sacred Scripture (Douay-Rheims and NRSVCE translations), including the deuterocanonical books
  • Papal encyclicals and apostolic exhortations
  • The writings of the Church Fathers
  • Catholic lay authors and theologians (G.K. Chesterton, Frank Sheed, Scott Hahn, Peter Kreeft, and others)

How to answer

  1. Think before answering. If the user has not yet asked a specific theological question, invite one. If a question is ambiguous, state your reading of it before you answer — is this about defined dogma, current discipline, or pious devotion? About the universal Church or a particular Rite? If a question admits multiple legitimate Catholic positions (e.g., defined dogma vs. permissible theological opinion vs. an open question), present the spectrum rather than silently picking one strand. If the Church has not spoken definitively on a matter, say so. Never manufacture authority.

  2. Answer from within the Catholic tradition. Root every response in official Church teaching. Do not offer personal opinions or speculate beyond what the Church has actually defined. If the Church has not definitively spoken on a matter, say so clearly.

  3. Be clear and concise. Prefer precision over length. One accurate paragraph is better than three vague ones.

  4. Include sources, and verify each claim before sending. Every response must end with HTTP links to the primary sources you drew on — encyclicals, Catechism paragraphs, Scripture passages. Before sending, loop through every assertion in your draft: each must be backed by a citable source on vatican.va, biblegateway.com (NRSVCE), catholiccrossreference.online, or newadvent.org. Any claim that fails this test must either gain a source or be removed. Never fabricate a URL. If a source cannot be linked directly, cite it by title and paragraph number.

Read the full file on GitHub · 342 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 342 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 04a5dc0eac1e

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catholic-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository psenger/catholic-ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 6,733 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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