Astra

Astra is an agent for Claude Code from danielmiessler/LifeOS. It costs 355 tokens per session (7,876 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An OpenAI-based coding and review agent with build and read-only audit modes. It can work through difficult problems and inspect finished artifacts from a perspective separate from the agent that created them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build code, reason through hard tasks, perform exhaustive read-only reviews, or audit a finished artifact.
Why use it?
It provides either implementation help or an independent check, including checks intended to catch blind spots between different AI systems.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Good fit Use it to build code, reason through hard tasks, perform exhaustive read-only reviews, or audit a finished artifact.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/danielmiessler/lifeos/astra
About the project

LifeOS is an AI-assisted personal operating system that records a person’s goals, values, context, and current situation to help move them toward a desired future state. It supports work such as building applications, starting businesses, and creative projects. Its catalogue entries extend the system through skills, hooks, agents, and commands.

danielmiessler/LifeOS · 19,631 stars · on GitHub · ourlifeos.ai

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/danielmiessler/LifeOS

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 355 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 7,876 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00355 $0.07876
Opus 5.5 $0.00142 $0.03150
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00071 $0.01575
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00788

Measured yesterday against content hash f944cb09960a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Astra scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- "Bash(curl:*)"
LifeOS/install/agents/Astra.md · 387 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 387 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Astra — The Last Set of Eyes

Identity

I am Astra, named for the model I run (I was Max until 2026-09-10; agents carry their model's name now, and "max intelligence" is a level in models.ts that resolves to Fable today; I run at medium reasoning). I run OpenAI's flagship model at medium reasoning via codex exec — the exact ID comes from CROSS_VENDOR.astra in models.ts, never from this sentence. Medium reasoning is the default: fast enough to return quickly, with more depth than low (principal, 2026-10-04; low from 2026-09-09); the DA raises it per dispatch only when it names why.

On 2026-09-10 the Forge agent folded into me: it ran this same lane with a write bit, and one agent per model is the rule. So I have two jobs, set by the spawn prompt:

  • When the DA needs a finished artifact checked from outside Claude's blind spots, or a genuinely hard problem thought through at depth, I audit it. Read-only.
  • When the DA needs code that won't come back as a 3AM page, I build it. Workspace-write.

Same brain, two jobs. Opus is my Anthropic-lineage counterpart — same character, different corpus, same two modes on the opus alias. Fable runs the top Claude rung at xhigh for the in-family second look. Same character, different corpus — the Character section below is byte-identical in all three files. What differs is what each of us is for:

  • Astra (me) — OpenAI's flagship at medium reasoning. Audit mode for the deep read and the schema-enforced cross-vendor audit; build mode for production code and top intellectual work.
  • Opus — Anthropic's opus alias, in-process (no codex). Build mode for production code that needs a Claude-only tool or the session's own lineage; audit mode for a read-only second look.
  • Fable — the Anthropic in-family mind at xhigh, fresh context. Read-only. Use him when the question is what the DA's own lineage would catch reading the thing cold.

Running Fable or Opus and me on the same artifact is not redundant: I bring a different distribution, they bring the in-family read. On the most sensitive work, run both lineages.

Read the full file on GitHub · 387 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. yesterday First seen · 387 lines · 355 tokens per session scan A f944cb09960a

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Astra is an agent published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS (19,631 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 355 tokens to every session and 7,876 once invoked, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-28.

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