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 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "agency-academic-anthropologist",
 "type": "agent",
 "name": "Anthropologist",
 "summary": "Design a believable culture for your story or game, or check one for clichés. Get kinship, rituals, beliefs and tensions that fit together.",
 "headline": "Anthropologist",
 "subhead": "Describe your society, how it feeds itself and which real cultures inspired it. The agent builds or checks the family rules, customs and beliefs so each part fits the rest. You get a culture sheet, a fit check for each custom and a list of weak spots to fix.",
 "job": {
  "id": "research-topics",
  "name": "Research a topic properly"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "high",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-11-03",
 "first_published": "2026-10-26",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  },
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  },
  {
   "type": "audit_report",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Audit report",
   "what": "findings with evidence, severity, missing inputs and next actions"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Your project type, such as a novel, game, campaign or script, and the genre",
  "The facts about your world that are already fixed",
  "How this society gets its food, and the land it lives on",
  "What you want, such as design a new culture, check one, or test it under stress",
  "The real cultures that inspired it (optional)",
  "The customs, laws or rituals you want checked (optional)"
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A culture sheet covering food and trade, family and power, beliefs and rituals, identity and inner tensions",
  "A fit check for each custom, with what it does, red flags and a keep, change or rethink call",
  "A list of clichés and shallow borrowing, with a deeper option for each",
  "Real-world parallels to read up on, marked to check",
  "A stress test showing how the culture copes with a crisis"
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "You are building a society for a novel, game or tabletop campaign, and its customs feel pasted together.",
  "You borrowed from real cultures and want to know whether the result reads as shallow or as a stereotype.",
  "You must decide how a family rule, such as who inherits or who marries whom, would change your plot.",
  "You added a new ritual or law and want to see whether it clashes with the rest of the culture."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You need fieldwork, a study design or an ethics review for real research. Work with a qualified anthropologist.",
  "You want to check land, climate and trade routes. Use the Geography analyst or the Fictional world logic reviewer.",
  "You want to check dates, technology and daily life of a real period. Use the Historian agent for period accuracy.",
  "You want story structure or what a character wants. Use the Narrative analyst or the Game narrative designer."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your project type and the world facts that are already fixed",
   "How this society gets its food, and the land it lives on",
   "What you want, such as design, check or stress test",
   "The real cultures that inspired it (optional)"
  ],
  "prerequisites": [
   "An AI you can paste a long brief into, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Culture sheet",
    "contains": "Food and trade, family and power, beliefs and rituals, identity and inner tensions for your society."
   },
   {
    "name": "Fit check",
    "contains": "For each custom, the job it does, red flags, a real-world parallel and a keep, change or rethink call."
   },
   {
    "name": "Cliché check",
    "contains": "Parts that read as shallow or stereotyped, each with a deeper option."
   },
   {
    "name": "Stress test",
    "contains": "How the culture responds to one crisis, and what could break."
   },
   {
    "name": "Open questions and checks",
    "contains": "Facts you must settle and real-world parallels you should read up on."
   }
  ]
 },
 "output_shape": "CULTURE SHEET: <society name>\n  Food and trade: <how people eat> | <how goods move> | <who controls key resources>\n  Family and power: <kinship> | <where couples live> | <what descent groups do> | <who rules>\n  Beliefs and rituals: <how they explain the world> | <ritual calendar and its jobs> | <taboos and why> | <specialists>\n  Identity: <who counts as us and them> | <rites of passage> | <status signs>\n  Inner tensions: <contradictions in this culture>\n\nFIT CHECK (one per custom)\n  <custom> | <job it does> | <fits with> | <red flags> | <real-world parallel to check> | <keep, change or rethink>\n\nCLICHÉ CHECK\n  <element> | <why it reads as a cliché> | <deeper option>\n\nSTRESS TEST\n  <crisis> | <how the culture responds> | <what could break>\n\nOPEN QUESTIONS AND CHECKS STILL NEEDED\n  <item> | <how to settle it>",
 "how_to_use": [
  "Download the pack from this page and add it to your AI as a skill. If you cannot, paste SKILL.md into a new chat, then paste references/source-agent.md after it.",
  "Describe your world, how this society feeds itself and what is fixed. Say if you want to design, check or stress test.",
  "Type \"Design a culture for this setting\", \"Check these customs for fit and clichés\" or \"Stress test this culture with a long drought\".",
  "Read the red flags and the tensions first. Change your world where the logic fails, then ask it to check again.",
  "If you base a culture on a living people, check the real-world parallels in books and with people from that culture. The AI works from general knowledge and cannot look anything up."
 ],
 "checks": [
  "The result addresses your actual task and cites the evidence used.",
  "Examples, role-play experience and targets are kept separate from verified results.",
  "Claims of tests, memory, tool access or completed actions match what actually happened."
 ],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Historian agent for period accuracy",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/agency-academic-historian",
   "why": "Historian agent for period accuracy"
  },
  {
   "name": "Geography analyst",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/agency-academic-geographer",
   "why": "Geography analyst"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors",
  "repo": "msitarzewski/agency-agents",
  "url": "https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents/blob/b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219/academic/academic-anthropologist.md",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "Anthropologist",
  "commit": "b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "Anthropologist",
   "by": "Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors",
   "url": "https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents/blob/b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219/academic/academic-anthropologist.md",
   "used": "Original agent profile, preserved in references/source-agent.md; AI Blocks adds setup and review instructions."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "LICENSE",
  "references/source-agent.md",
  "SETUP.md",
  "source.json"
 ],
 "links": {
  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/agents/agency-academic-anthropologist",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/agents/agency-academic-anthropologist.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/agents/agency-academic-anthropologist.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/agency-academic-anthropologist/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/agency-academic-anthropologist.zip",
  "api_item": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/items/agency-academic-anthropologist",
  "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/agent/agency-academic-anthropologist",
  "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp"
 }
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