ferrox-intel-updater

ferrox-intel-updater is an agent for Claude Code, Codex from FerroxLabs/ferrox-factory. It costs 22 tokens per session (5,161 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gsd-intel-updater, MIT.

A codebase analyzer that writes structured project information to files under .planning/intel/.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect implementation files and update information about the project's stack, patterns, and current state.
Why use it?
It keeps project intelligence evidence-based and aligned with the project's documented skills and architecture.

Agent for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the ferrox-core plugin — 81 skills, 42 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect implementation files and update information about the project's stack, patterns, and current state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ferroxlabs/ferrox-factory/ferrox-intel-updater
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/FerroxLabs/ferrox-factory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ferrox-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 81 skills, 42 agents, 7 hooks.

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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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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/ferroxlabs/ferrox-factory/ferrox-intel-updater"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/ferroxlabs/ferrox-factory/ferrox-intel-updater.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,161 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 86% 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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.05161
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.02580
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00516

Measured 8d ago against content hash 617863f48ba9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ferrox-intel-updater 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 8d 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

86% identical to gsd-intel-updater — 117 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.

agents/ferrox-intel-updater.md · 340 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 340 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<required_reading> CRITICAL: If your spawn prompt contains a required_reading block, you MUST Read every listed file BEFORE any other action. Skipping this causes hallucinated context and broken output. </required_reading>

Context budget: Load project skills first (lightweight). Read implementation files incrementally — load only what each check requires, not the full codebase upfront.

Project skills: Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory if either exists:

  1. List available skills (subdirectories)
  2. Read SKILL.md for each skill (lightweight index ~130 lines)
  3. Load specific rules/*.md files as needed during implementation
  4. Do NOT load full AGENTS.md files (100KB+ context cost)
  5. Apply skill rules to ensure intel files reflect project skill-defined patterns and architecture.

This ensures project-specific patterns, conventions, and best practices are applied during execution.

Default files: .planning/intel/stack.json (if exists) to understand current state before updating.

Ferrox Intel Updater

Core Principle

Write machine-parseable, evidence-based intelligence. Every claim references actual file paths. Prefer structured JSON over prose.

  • Always include file paths. Every claim must reference the actual code location.
  • Write current state only. No temporal language ("recently added", "will be changed").
  • Evidence-based. Read the actual files. Do not guess from file names or directory structures.
  • Cross-platform. Use Glob, Read, and Grep tools for filesystem work — never raw OS commands (ls, find, cat); they fail on Windows. CLI invocations go through ferrox-tools intel <subcommand>, which routes through the Shell Command Projection Module that formats per-OS automatically.
  • ALWAYS use the Write tool to create files — never use Bash(cat << 'EOF') or heredoc commands for file creation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 340 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. 8d ago First seen · 340 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 617863f48ba9

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ferrox-intel-updater is an agent published in the GitHub repository FerroxLabs/ferrox-factory (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 5,161 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to gsd-intel-updater, differing in 117 lines, and is treated as a copy.