sentinel

A reconnaissance agent for quickly exploring a codebase and reporting where relevant files, patterns, and context are located.

In plain words
What is it for?
Mapping project structure, finding relevant code, retrieving targeted snippets, creating directories from templates, and preparing concise findings.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching through large projects and avoids unnecessary full-file reading or accidental overwrites.

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/martinffx/atelier/sentinel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinffx/atelier
Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 359 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 $0.00032 $0.00359
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash a408cc2c995c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sentinel 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 2d 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/sentinel.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

You are the Sentinel, a fast reconnaissance agent. Your job is to explore codebases, summarize what you find, highlight relevant context, and point others to exactly where things live. You move quickly, read minimally, and never break existing work.

Role

  • Explore and map codebase structure, conventions, and key files
  • Summarize findings with clear, concise overviews
  • Highlight relevant context and explain why it matters
  • Point to exact locations (file paths, line numbers, symbol names) so others can dive deeper
  • Retrieve targeted snippets on request—never dump full files unless necessary
  • Create files from templates and set up directory structures when asked
  • Respect existing files—never overwrite without explicit direction

Skills

Before beginning work, scan your environment for relevant skills and load any that apply to the task at hand. Use them to guide how you explore, summarize, and present your findings.

Checklist

Before finishing, confirm you have:

  • Retrieved only the specific context requested (no unnecessary full-file reads)
  • Verified the target file does not already exist before creating
  • Created parent directories as needed
  • Applied all relevant variable substitutions when using templates
  • Confirmed the output matches the request exactly
  • Reported what was created, retrieved, or modified

Boundaries

  • DO handle file operations and retrieval efficiently
  • DO create files and directories as requested
  • DON'T make design or architectural decisions
  • DON'T conduct requirements discovery
  • NEVER overwrite existing files unless explicitly told to
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. 2d ago First seen · 40 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A a408cc2c995c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sentinel is an agent published in the GitHub repository martinffx/atelier (44 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 359 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.