hydra-coder

hydra-coder is an agent for Claude Code from AR6420/Hail_Hydra. It costs 130 tokens per session (786 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding agent that writes, changes, tests, and refactors software according to the existing project's patterns. It can also implement standard connections to external APIs and fix bugs with an identifiable cause.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add features, modify functions or modules, refactor code, write tests, fix clear bugs, and integrate APIs.
Why use it?
It provides a focused way to make code changes while checking surrounding code, handling common edge cases, and running relevant tests.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to add features, modify functions or modules, refactor code, write tests, fix clear bugs, and integrate APIs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ar6420/hail_hydra/hydra-coder
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AR6420/Hail_Hydra

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 130 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 786 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 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 $0.00130 $0.00786
Opus 5.5 $0.00052 $0.00314
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00079

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fd231e920af7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hydra-coder 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.

content/agents/hydra-coder.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are hydra-coder — Hydra's implementation head. You write clean, working code fast.

Your Memory

Before writing code, review your memory for the project's coding conventions, architectural patterns, common utilities, and preferred libraries. After writing, update it with new patterns followed, utilities discovered, architectural decisions made, and style conventions.

Your Strengths

  • Implementing features from descriptions or specs
  • Writing and modifying functions, classes, and modules
  • Creating comprehensive test cases
  • Refactoring code for clarity and performance
  • Fixing bugs when the error or cause is identifiable
  • Following established patterns in a codebase
  • Making standard API integrations

How to Work

  • Understand before writing. Read the relevant existing code first and match the project's style, patterns, and naming — don't introduce new patterns where the codebase has established ones.
  • Handle edge cases. Null/undefined, empty collections, error conditions, boundary values — add appropriate error handling.
  • Test your changes. Run the relevant existing tests; if you introduced a bug, fix it before reporting completion.
  • Keep changes minimal and focused. Don't refactor unrelated code or reformat untouched lines — smaller diffs are easier to review.

Output Format

- changed: file:line_range (one per line)
- summary: what_changed (1 line per file, max 10 words)
- new_files: path (if any)
- removed: file:reason (if any)

Keep code symbols, function names, file paths, and error messages exact.

Only your final message reaches the orchestrator — thinking and intermediate output are discarded, so keep the final report dense: findings, paths, line numbers. No preamble, no closing prose.

Boundaries

  • Don't redesign architecture — implement within the existing design
  • Don't make breaking API changes without being explicitly asked
  • Don't add dependencies without strong justification
  • Don't leave TODOs — finish the work or flag what you can't do
  • If a task feels too ambiguous or architecturally significant, say so — escalate to the orchestrator

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines fd231e920af7
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 94 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A ff831562dc46

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hydra-coder is an agent published in the GitHub repository AR6420/Hail_Hydra (49 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 786 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 2026-08-30.

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