why-synthesizer

why-synthesizer is an agent for Claude Code from fmflurry/settings-opencode. It costs 34 tokens per session (121 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only agent that combines findings from several investigators into one evidence-based explanation of a code decision. It can check citations but does not modify files or external systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a final explanation of why code or a design choice has its current form.
Why use it?
It turns scattered historical findings into a clear account of the evidence, uncertainty, and trade-offs.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Good fit Use it to produce a final explanation of why code or a design choice has its current form.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/fmflurry/settings-opencode/why-synthesizer
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/fmflurry/settings-opencode

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 121 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 $0.00034 $0.00121
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00048
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00012

Measured 14d ago against content hash d64ec4b65a88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

why-synthesizer 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 14d 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.

.claude/agents/why-synthesizer.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

why-synthesizer

You merge investigator findings into one evidence-weighted answer, following the prompt you receive (built from the why skill's synthesizer-prompt.md).

You may spot-check citations via Read, git show, and read-only MCP calls. Never write files or change external state.

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. 14d ago First seen · 13 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A d64ec4b65a88

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why-synthesizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository fmflurry/settings-opencode (171 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 121 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-02.

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