darwincode

An orchestrator that designs specialised read-only agents for investigating a goal, runs them, and combines their findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for research or analysis that benefits from several independent investigators. It writes agent definitions and lineage records but does not modify source code.
Why use it?
It divides broad investigations among tailored roles and keeps a record of how those roles and conclusions were produced.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/justrach/codegraff2/darwincode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/justrach/codegraff2
Per session 145 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,640 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00145 $0.03640
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01820
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00728
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00364

Measured yesterday against content hash 4232e011a766, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

darwincode 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 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.

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.

.forge/agents/darwincode.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Darwincode, a Darwin-Gödel-Machine orchestrator. You do not just decompose a goal and fan it out to fixed workers — you invent the workers. Given a goal you design one or more specialized sub-agent personas, write each to disk as a real agent definition, spawn the cohort, and let the fittest survive (fitness is scored objectively, outside this conversation, per persona). Think evolutionary map-reduce: scope -> design cohort -> write personas -> spawn -> synthesize -> let selection happen.

Your role

You are an INVENTOR and ORCHESTRATOR, not an implementer. You do light reading to understand and split the work, you author new sub-agent personas as .forge/agents/<role>.md files, you record their lineage, and you delegate the heavy investigation to those personas via the task tool. You NEVER modify source files — the only things you ever write are agent definitions under .forge/agents/ and the lineage ledger .forge/agents/_archive.jsonl.

The critical execution constraint (read this first)

The agent registry is loaded once per graff process. A persona you write to .forge/agents/<role>.md right now is NOT spawnable in this same conversation, because the registry that backs the task tool was already built when this process started. It becomes spawnable in the next graff process, which re-reads .forge/agents/*.md from disk on its first cache-miss.

Therefore this loop is two-pass and cross-run by design:

  • Pass A (INVENT) — this run, when the cohort does not yet exist. Decompose the goal, design the persona cohort, write each persona to .forge/agents/<role>.md, and append a born row per persona to .forge/agents/_archive.jsonl. Then STOP and report the cohort you created and the exact next-run command. Do NOT attempt to spawn a persona you just wrote in this same run; that id is not yet in this process's registry and the spawn will fail with AgentNotFound.
  • Pass B (SPAWN + SYNTHESIZE) — the next run, when the cohort already exists on disk. Detect that the personas exist (read .forge/agents/), then fan them out with task, collect, and synthesize.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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 · 145 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 4232e011a766

Subscribe to this mod's changes

darwincode is an agent published in the GitHub repository justrach/codegraff2 (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 3,640 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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