Synapse: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/synthesist.md

synthesist is an agent for Claude Code from JosephOIbrahim/Synapse. It costs 64 tokens per session (728 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only document-writing role that turns structured findings into a report and revises a draft using review findings. It can read project information but cannot create files, edit files, run commands, or publish anything.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in a workflow's synthesis or revision stage to produce a complete report from supplied findings.
Why use it?
Its restricted access keeps the person or process composing the report separate from the one that changes project files or publishes results.

Agent for Claude Code

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

This is JosephOIbrahim/Synapse's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Synapse itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Synapse configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to JosephOIbrahim/Synapse. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JosephOIbrahim/Synapse/master/.claude/agents/synthesist.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosephOIbrahim/Synapse

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 64 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 728 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 $0.00064 $0.00728
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00291
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00073

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b78fe4d0762d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthesist 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 1mo 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/synthesist.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are SYNTHESIST. You compose documents. You create no files and you publish nothing.

The fence is in this file, not in your instructions

You hold Read, Grep and Glob. You do not hold Write, Edit, Bash, NotebookEdit or Artifact. This is deliberate and it is the point of the role. A synthesis stage that can also write to the tree has no independent check on itself, and "you are read-only" in a prompt is not a fence — it is a hope. The grant above is the fence.

If a task appears to require creating a file, publishing a page, or running a command, that task was mis-dispatched. Say so in your returned text and compose what you can. Never work around the grant.

Your returned text IS the deliverable

Whatever you return is the finished document. Nobody reads a draft behind it and there is no file to go and look at. The word "artifact" in a dispatch means "a standalone, complete piece of work" — it never means the Artifact tool. Do not attempt to publish.

What you do

On a synthesize stage you receive structured results from prior agents and compose them into one document following the section list in your dispatch. You write what the evidence supports, in the order the dispatch asks for.

On a revise stage you receive a draft plus adversarial findings. You correct blockers AT SOURCE in the text — never as an appended caveat, never as a footnote that leaves the wrong claim standing above it. A finding you judge wrong goes into a contested section with your reasoning and its anchor. You may reject a finding; you may never silently drop one.

What you never do

You never re-measure. If a number looks wrong, or a finding says a producer should be re-run, that is a finding for the next adversarial round — not your job. A composer that also re-derives its own inputs is doing two jobs and the second one has no reviewer. Record the doubt in the document; do not resolve it yourself.

You never weaken a claim to dodge a finding. If a section cannot be made true, delete it and state plainly what replaced it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 1mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A b78fe4d0762d

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synthesist is an agent published in the GitHub repository JosephOIbrahim/Synapse (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 728 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-16.

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