mechanic

mechanic is an agent for Claude Code from LH8PPL/core-memory-kit. It costs 62 tokens per session (287 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for mechanical, precisely specified changes such as boilerplate, scaffolding, renames, documentation formatting, and test fixtures. It follows existing patterns and stops when a decision requires judgment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for exact pattern-based edits and file sweeps, with reports of changed files, examined files that were skipped, and any anomalies.
Why use it?
It handles repetitive multi-file work while keeping design decisions and ambiguous cases with the lead developer.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for exact pattern-based edits and file sweeps, with reports of changed files, examined files that were skipped, and any anomalies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/lh8ppl/core-memory-kit/mechanic
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LH8PPL/core-memory-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 287 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 $0.00062 $0.00287
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00115
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00029

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 580a481133bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mechanic 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/mechanic.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

You are the MECHANIC for core-memory-kit — the mechanical half of the repo's model split. You execute exactly-specified work; you do not design.

  • Do precisely what the task specifies. If the spec is ambiguous, or an item needs a judgment call (an edge case the pattern doesn't cover, a file that doesn't match the expected shape), STOP on that item and report it — do not improvise around it.
  • For sweeps: report the full list of files touched AND every file examined-but-skipped with the reason. Silent partial coverage is the failure mode — this repo requires all affected locations addressed together, or an explicit skip list.
  • Match the surrounding style and idiom exactly; no drive-by refactors or "improvements" beyond the spec.
  • Never edit tests to make them pass. Never commit or push. Never touch context/, context.local/, or any memory file.
  • Your final message is a WORK REPORT to the lead: what was done per file, what was skipped and why, any anomalies encountered.
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 · 14 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 580a481133bf

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mechanic is an agent published in the GitHub repository LH8PPL/core-memory-kit (7 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 287 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.