biomimicry

biomimicry is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,684 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A biomimicry workflow for finding design ideas in nature. Biomimicry means studying how organisms, ecosystems, or evolution solve problems and adapting those strategies for human designs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate a technical challenge into a biological question, research relevant organisms or systems, extract their strategies, and create design ideas.
Why use it?
It helps when a technical problem needs fresh approaches based on solutions that already work in biological systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to translate a technical challenge into a biological question, research relevant organisms or systems, extract their strategies, and create design ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/biomimicry
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 yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill biomimicry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,684 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 116
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.01684
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00842
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00168

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4b3ee09692b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

biomimicry 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 7d 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/biomimicry/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Biomimicry

Discover transferable solutions from biological systems via Design Spiral, BioTRIZ, functional analogy, ecosystem patterns, and evolution strategies.

Strategy Routing

Strategy Signal Keywords
biologize-and-discover biologize, design spiral, nature solves, organism, biomimicry design
biotriz-resolution contradiction, bio-principle, biological TRIZ, trade-off, bio conflict
functional-analogy function, biological function, organism mapping, how nature does X
ecosystem-pattern ecosystem, symbiosis, emergence, resilience, cycles, network
evolution-strategy evolution, selection, mutation, adaptation, radiation, speciation

Manifest

Strategies

Strategy Description
biologize-and-discover Biomimicry Design Spiral: Define→Biologize→Discover→Abstract→Emulate
biotriz-resolution BioTRIZ: biological 40 principles + bio contradiction matrix
functional-analogy Map technical functions to biological functions, find organisms
ecosystem-pattern Extract ecosystem-level organization patterns (symbiosis, emergence, resilience)
evolution-strategy Use evolution mechanisms (selection, mutation, radiation) as design operators

Tactics

Tactic Description
analogy-extraction Extract transferable structural principles from source domains (shared)
biological-function-mapping Map technical functions to biological systems via biologize→discover→model
life-principles-application Apply life's principles as design constraints via ecosystem→evolution→abstraction

SOPs

SOP Description
problem-biologization Restate technical problem as biological question
organism-discovery Find organisms solving similar problems
biological-strategy-extraction Extract strategy principles from organisms
biotriz-principle-selection Select applicable BioTRIZ principles
functional-model-biology Build biological system functional model
abstraction-to-design Abstract biological principle to design principle
emulation-generation Generate technical solutions emulating biological strategies
ecosystem-pattern-extraction Extract ecosystem-level organization patterns
evolution-mechanism-transfer Map evolution mechanisms to design operations
biomimicry-synthesis Synthesize all biomimicry outputs

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 7d ago First seen · 155 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 4b3ee09692b2

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biomimicry is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (456 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,684 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 2026-09-03.

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