git-archaeologist

git-archaeologist is an agent for Claude Code from AnExiledDev/CodeForge. It costs 136 tokens per session (3,337 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An agent for investigating Git history, which records how a codebase changed over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Tracing code evolution, finding when a bug was introduced, using blame to identify changes, and recovering work from the reflog.
Why use it?
It helps explain when changes happened, who made them, why they were made, and where lost work may be found.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: hooks in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-system plugin — 1 skill, 19 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Tracing code evolution, finding when a bug was introduced, using blame to identify changes, and recovering work from the reflog.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/anexileddev/codeforge/git-archaeologist
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnExiledDev/CodeForge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-system, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 19 agents, 3 hooks.

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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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/anexileddev/codeforge/git-archaeologist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/anexileddev/codeforge/git-archaeologist/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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/anexileddev/codeforge/git-archaeologist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/anexileddev/codeforge/git-archaeologist.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 136 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,337 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 unknown 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 $0.00136 $0.03337
Opus 5.5 $0.00054 $0.01335
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00667
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00334

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 83f09bfa9d0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-archaeologist 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 1mo 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.

container/.devcontainer/plugins/devs-marketplace/plugins/agent-system/agents/git-archaeologist.md · 274 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 274 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 83f09bfa9d0b

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git-archaeologist is an agent published in the GitHub repository AnExiledDev/CodeForge (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 3,337 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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