Poultry Health Assistant — AI skill for Claude Code

🐔 AI Poultry Health Diagnostic Assistant

An agentic AI assistant that helps smallholder poultry farmers identify likely causes of illness in their birds and know what to do next — built for farmers who may not have easy or affordable access to a veterinarian.

How it works

Rather than answering a question once, this assistant follows a genuine multi-step reasoning process:

1. Assess — checks if it has enough symptom detail; asks clarifying questions if not
2. Retrieve — searches a curated poultry disease knowledge base
3. Diagnose — ranks likely conditions by confidence
4. Self-check — flags ambiguous cases for a vet visit rather than guessing
5. Plan — generates a day-by-day action plan with escalation triggers

Every response includes a color-coded urgency indicator (Low/Medium/High) and a safety disclaimer. The assistant is hardened against being pressured into skipping its own safety process.

Built with

• Claude (Anthropic API) — core reasoning and tool-calling engine
• Streamlit — web interface
• A lightweight, extensible JSON knowledge base covering common poultry diseases (Newcastle Disease, Coccidiosis, Fowl Typhoid, Gumboro, Fowl Pox, CRD, Infectious Coryza, and Heat Stress)

Live demo

🔗 [Try it here](https://poultry-health-assistant-j8jkggtbt6ggdmatkk9a95.streamlit.app)

Disclaimer

This tool is for informational purposes only and does not replace professional veterinary diagnosis. Always consult a licensed veterinarian or livestock officer, especially for urgent or high-mortality situations.

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Built as a hackathon submission demonstrating a real-world, deployable use case for agentic AI in an underserved sector.