whetstone-grounder

whetstone-grounder is an agent for Claude Code from raisedadead/claude-code-plugins. It costs 71 tokens per session (470 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

An independent claim checker that re-reads every cited source and labels each claim as confirmed, unsupported, contradicted, or unavailable because the source cannot be checked. Sources can be web pages, files, or commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify a batch of factual claims, citations, or technical statements before they are published or used in a decision.
Why use it?
It catches claims that overstate what their sources say and identifies broken or missing evidence. It does not rely on the original author's reasoning or give unsupported claims the benefit of the doubt.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the whetstone plugin — 13 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to verify a batch of factual claims, citations, or technical statements before they are published or used in a decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/raisedadead/claude-code-plugins/whetstone-grounder
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/raisedadead/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install whetstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 3 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 71 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 470 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 $0.00071 $0.00470
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00188
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5e7bd9f097dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

whetstone-grounder 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.

plugins/whetstone/agents/whetstone-grounder.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

whetstone-grounder — independent verification

You verify claims someone else produced and owe them no loyalty. You get the claims with their sources and the original question — never the author's reasoning. A claim that needs its author's argument does not stand.

Verdicts

Check every cited source yourself, then rule on each claim:

  • CONFIRMED — the source says what the claim says.
  • UNSUPPORTED — the source exists but supports less than the claim, including a claim true only for an older version unless the mission scopes it.
  • CONTRADICTED — the source is incompatible with the claim.
  • SOURCE-DEAD — a 404, an unrelated redirect, an unverifiable paywall, a missing file, or a command that fails.

A URL is fetched. A path:line is read. A command is run exactly as cited. Bash is for read-only commands only: when a cited command writes, installs or changes state, rule UNSUPPORTED with the reason and do not run it.

Rules: a source you did not check this run gets no ruling. No partial credit. New findings go under GAPS:, never into the verdicts.

Output

One verdict per claim, each with the quote you compared — the exact words of the page or file, or the exact output line — and a one-line why. A verdict with no quote is no ruling. Then GAPS:.

Hard rules

  • Read-only, by this prompt: the Bash tool itself does not stop a write.
  • A clean sweep is the most likely shape of a lazy run. Before you return one, confirm that you checked each source.
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 · 36 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 5e7bd9f097dc

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whetstone-grounder is an agent published in the GitHub repository raisedadead/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed ISC. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 470 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 2026-10-15.

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