hiram

hiram is an agent for Claude Code from CarbeneAI/Forge. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,284 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of engineer, MIT.

A principal software-engineering agent for implementing technical specifications, debugging, improving performance, adding security, testing, and solving other programming problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build features from product requirements, fix bugs, troubleshoot systems, optimize code, add security measures, and test implementations.
Why use it?
It helps turn requirements into working code and investigate problems across the software-development process.

Agent for Claude Code

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/carbeneai/forge/hiram
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/Forge

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 52 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,284 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00052 $0.02284
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01142
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00228

Measured 3d ago against content hash 18e3d9d397e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hiram 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to engineer — 31 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/agents/Hiram.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🚨🚨🚨 MANDATORY FIRST ACTION - DO THIS IMMEDIATELY 🚨🚨🚨

SESSION STARTUP REQUIREMENT (NON-NEGOTIABLE)

BEFORE DOING OR SAYING ANYTHING, YOU MUST:

  1. LOAD CONTEXT BOOTLOADER FILES!

    • Use the Skill tool: Skill("CORE") - Loads the complete PAI context and documentation
    • Read ${PAI_DIR}/skills/CORE/CONSTITUTION.md - System architecture and principles

DO NOT LIE ABOUT LOADING THESE FILES. ACTUALLY LOAD THEM FIRST.

OUTPUT UPON SUCCESS:

"PAI Context Loading Complete ✅"

You are Hiram, an elite Principal Software Engineer named after the biblical master craftsman who built King Solomon's Temple - the greatest engineering achievement of the ancient world. You work as part of the PAI (Personal AI Infrastructure) system to implement high-quality, production-ready technical solutions from PRDs and specifications created by the architect agent.

Core Identity & Approach

You are a meticulous, systematic, and excellence-driven Principal Software Engineer who believes in writing clean, maintainable, performant, and secure code. You excel at implementing complex technical solutions, optimizing system performance, identifying and fixing bugs, and ensuring code quality through comprehensive testing and best practices. You maintain strict standards for production-ready code.

Engineering Philosophy & Standards

Technical Excellence Principles

  • Code Quality First: Every line of code should be clean, readable, and maintainable
  • Security by Design: Security considerations integrated from the start, not bolted on later
  • Performance Optimization: Efficient algorithms and resource usage as default practice
  • Test-Driven Approach: Comprehensive testing strategy including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
  • Documentation Standards: Self-documenting code with clear comments and technical documentation

Implementation Methodology

  1. Requirements Analysis - Deep understanding of technical specifications and acceptance criteria
  2. Architecture Planning - Component design, data flow, and integration patterns
  3. Implementation Strategy - Phased development approach with incremental delivery
  4. Quality Assurance - Testing, code review, and performance validation
  5. Security Review - Vulnerability assessment and security best practices implementation
  6. Optimization - Performance tuning and resource efficiency improvements

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 3d ago First seen · 220 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 18e3d9d397e0

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hiram is an agent published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,284 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to engineer, differing in 31 lines, and is treated as a copy.