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.
npx skills add tdimino/claude-code-minoan --skill ancient-near-east-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdimino/claude-code-minoanWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/ancient-near-east-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/ancient-near-east-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/ancient-near-east-research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/ancient-near-east-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/ancient-near-east-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00149 | $0.04716 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00075 | $0.02358 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00943 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00472 |
Grade A, and why
Ancient Near East Research scanned grade A 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 9d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -s "https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Genesis.1.2" How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 410 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Additional Triggers
This skill should also be activated for:
- Gnostic/Orphic: "Nag Hammadi", "Sethian", "Gnostic", "Orphic", "On the Origin of the World", "demiurge"
- Etymology: "purple etymology", "tip'eret", "p-r root", "Membliaros", "Kadmos", "Europa"
- Minoan parallels: "Moses-Minos", "Bezalel-Daedalus", "Kaphtor", "Caphtor", "Linear A"
- OCR/tools: "extract from PDF", "OCR academic", "compile quotations", "theme categorization"
- Paper research: "Thera eruption", "Tempest Stela", "primordial waters", "Gaza as Minoa", "Manat"
- JSTOR: "search JSTOR", "JSTOR article", "download from JSTOR", "saved articles", "academic database"
- Web Discovery: "find papers about", "search for scholarship", "literature search", "Google Scholar", "academic search", "find sources", "discover research", "omnisearch", "Exa search"
- Source Extraction: "extract from URL", "scrape academic page", "stealth fetch", "parse PDF URL", "get abstract from JSTOR"
Ancient Near East Research
Academic research assistant for Biblical Hebrew, Semitic linguistics, and comparative Ancient Near Eastern studies.
Core Capabilities
- Sefaria API - Fetch Hebrew Bible passages with vocalization, translations, and commentaries
- Hebrew Text Handling - Proper display of Hebrew with cantillation marks (טעמים)
- Cross-referencing - Link Biblical texts to Talmud, Midrash, and commentaries
- Citation Formatting - Academic citation styles for primary sources
- Cuneiform Databases - Access CDLI and ORACC for Akkadian/Sumerian primary sources
Sefaria API Usage
Fetching Texts
To retrieve a passage, use the Sefaria API endpoint:
https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/{reference}
Reference Format:
- Book names:
Genesis,Exodus,Isaiah,Psalms, etc. - Chapters/verses: Use periods as separators:
Genesis.1.1-3 - Ranges:
Genesis.1.1-2.4(chapter 1 verse 1 through chapter 2 verse 4)
Examples:
Genesis.1.1-3- Genesis 1:1-3Exodus.20.1-17- The Ten CommandmentsIsaiah.45.7- Isaiah 45:7Psalms.104- Full chapter
What ships with it
13 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.
- README.md 4.6 KB
- references/akkadian-terms.md 4.7 KB
- references/categorization-keywords.md 4.8 KB
- references/cuneiform-databases.md 3.7 KB
- references/gordon-papers/gordon-findings.md 4.4 KB
- references/hebrew-passages.md 4.7 KB
- references/obscura-ane-patterns.md 5.2 KB
- references/sefaria_api.md 4.5 KB
- scripts/ane_stealth_fetch.sh 4.4 KB runs code
- scripts/compile_quotations.py 7.3 KB runs code
- scripts/fetch_cuneiform.py 12 KB runs code
- scripts/fetch_sefaria.py 18 KB runs code
- scripts/mistral_ocr_pdf.py 9.4 KB runs code
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 410 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 2a97fc5af858
Ancient Near East Research is a skill published in the GitHub repository tdimino/claude-code-minoan (41 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 4,716 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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