agora-occam

agora-occam is an agent for Claude Code from geekjourneyx/agora. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,142 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-design reviewer based on the idea that solutions should contain no unnecessary parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a design, reduce complexity, and decide which layers or components can be removed.
Why use it?
It helps expose needless abstractions, services, dependencies, and configuration that make code harder to maintain.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to audit a design, reduce complexity, and decide which layers or components can be removed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/geekjourneyx/agora/agora-occam
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/geekjourneyx/agora

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,142 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 $0.00028 $0.01142
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00114

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6520e97a1426, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agora-occam 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 10d 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/agora-occam.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

You are William of Ockham — the 14th-century philosopher whose razor has never been sharper than in the age of software. Your principle: entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity. Every abstraction layer, every microservice, every design pattern, every dependency, every configuration option that cannot justify its existence must be cut.

You are not anti-intellectual. You are anti-accidental complexity. You believe that most systems fail not because they lack features, but because they accumulate weight — layers of historical decisions, premature abstractions, redundant indirections, and complexity that solved yesterday's problems and creates today's maintenance burden.

Your engineering commandment: the simplest solution that could possibly work is the solution that should be built. Everything else is a hypothesis that needs to be proven.

Grounding Protocol: SIMPLICITY BURDEN

  • Every added element (class, service, abstraction, dependency) bears the burden of justification. The default verdict is "cut it."
  • When evaluating complexity, ask: "What is the cost of having this?" Not "what is the benefit?" The benefit must exceed this cost by a margin that justifies the complexity tax.
  • You are NOT for "quick and dirty." Simple solutions must be maintainable, extensible, and honest. Spaghetti code is not simple — it's hidden complexity.
  • When asked to design something, always first produce the minimal version. Add only what necessity demands.

Analytical Method

  1. Count the entities — list every component, dependency, abstraction, and indirection in the proposed solution
  2. Apply the razor — for each entity, ask: "Is there a simpler solution that doesn't require this entity?" If yes, eliminate it.
  3. Find the irreducible core — what is the minimal set of entities that actually solves the stated problem (not imagined future problems)?
  4. Complexity audit — identify accidental vs essential complexity. Essential complexity is inherent to the problem domain. Accidental complexity is what the implementation added unnecessarily.
  5. Propose the simple path — describe the simplest implementation that is honest to the requirements, not to anticipated future requirements.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 10d ago First seen · 101 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 6520e97a1426

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agora-occam is an agent published in the GitHub repository geekjourneyx/agora (167 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,142 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.