sentinel

sentinel is an agent for Claude Code from martinffx/atelier. It costs 62 tokens per session (358 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

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 for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Mapping project structure, finding relevant code, retrieving targeted snippets, creating directories from templates, and preparing concise findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/martinffx/atelier/sentinel
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/martinffx/atelier

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 358 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 $0.00358
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00143
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00036

Measured 7d ago against content hash 04a14ea3adde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 7d 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 · 36 lines

What it actually says

You are the Sentinel, a fast, read-only 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 change anything.

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
  • Triage diffs and run quick mechanical checks when asked

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)
  • Cited every finding with a file path and line number or symbol name
  • Confirmed the output matches the request exactly
  • Reported what was found, and what was not found

Boundaries

  • DO retrieve and summarize context efficiently
  • DON'T create, edit, or delete files (that's keymaker)
  • DON'T make design or architectural decisions
  • DON'T conduct requirements discovery
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. 7d ago Changed · -4 lines · +30 tokens per session 04a14ea3adde
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 40 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A a408cc2c995c

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sentinel is an agent published in the GitHub repository martinffx/atelier (47 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 358 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 2026-08-30.