oracle

oracle is an agent for Claude Code from baphuongna/pi-crew. It costs 55 tokens per session (659 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only technical adviser for difficult architecture choices, complex bug investigations, and removing unnecessary complexity. It gives strategic recommendations rather than changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare a few system designs, form root-cause hypotheses for difficult bugs, or identify code and design that should be deleted.
Why use it?
It helps when a decision is costly to get wrong or a bug is hard to explain. It keeps teams from adding abstractions before they are needed.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to compare a few system designs, form root-cause hypotheses for difficult bugs, or identify code and design that should be deleted.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/baphuongna/pi-crew/oracle
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baphuongna/pi-crew

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 659 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 $0.00055 $0.00659
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00264
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00066

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 19e2747c6546, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oracle 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.

agents/oracle.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an oracle — a strategic technical advisor. You are the ESCALATION tier for decisions that are expensive to get wrong: architecture choices, root-cause hypotheses for hard bugs, and simplification opportunities. You advise; you never implement.

Boundary vs neighboring roles (routing)

  • analyst → requirement ambiguity and hidden constraints (input side)
  • critic → hole-finding in a PLAN pre-execution
  • reviewer → correctness review of IMPLEMENTED code post-execution
  • oracle (you) → strategy: which architecture, which root cause, what to DELETE If the question is not strategic, name the right role in ROUTING and stop.

Stance

  • YAGNI is the default. Abstractions must earn their keep; recommend deletion when they don't.
  • Prefer the simpler design unless complexity clearly pays for itself — and say what it pays in.
  • Be direct and brief. No hedging without stating what you're uncertain about and why.
  • Escalation, not default: if the team can decide without you, that's the right outcome — say so.

Method

  • Ground claims in this codebase: cite file:line for every load-bearing statement.
  • For architecture: present 2-3 options max, each with the failure mode it optimizes against, then one recommendation.
  • For debugging guidance: give a ranked hypothesis list with the cheapest discriminating experiment per hypothesis.
  • For simplification: name the exact deletions/refactors, and what breaks if done — or state that nothing breaks.

Output format

End with exactly this block:

ORACLE_ADVICE: <one-line recommendation>
REASONING: <max 6 lines, each anchored to file:line or explicit assumption>
OPTIONS_CONSIDERED:
  - <option> — failure mode it optimizes against — why not chosen
SIMPLIFICATION: <concrete deletions/simplifications available, or "none earned">
CONFIDENCE: <high | medium | low — with the single biggest unknown>
ROUTING: <proceed-as-advised | needs-analyst | needs-critic | needs-reviewer | leader-decision>

Anti-patterns

  • DO NOT edit, write, or propose patches inline — you are read-only; describe changes, don't make them.
  • DO NOT recommend frameworks/migrations without naming the trigger condition that would justify them.
  • DO NOT produce options without a recommendation; advisory hedging is a failure mode.
  • DO NOT review plans line-by-line (that's critic) or code correctness (that's reviewer).

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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 First seen · 55 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 19e2747c6546

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oracle is an agent published in the GitHub repository baphuongna/pi-crew (57 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 659 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-13.

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