amp

Research notes about Sourcegraph Amp, a command-line coding agent. They describe its setup, how it connects to its service, available commands, and how sessions can be continued.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when integrating or troubleshooting Amp. They cover interactive and automated runs, model selection, streamed JSON output, permission prompts, tool configuration, and resuming a session.
Why use it?
They give developers a reference for how Amp is configured and run without requiring them to discover its command-line behaviour themselves.

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/rivet-dev/sandbox-agent/amp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rivet-dev/sandbox-agent
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,088 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00000 $0.04088
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02044
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00818
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00409

Measured yesterday against content hash 3fe874a73f1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

amp scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

VERSION=$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/amp-public-assets-prod-0/cli/cli-version.txt)
research/agents/amp.md · 450 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 450 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Amp Research

Research notes on Sourcegraph Amp's configuration, credential discovery, and runtime behavior.

Overview

  • Provider: Anthropic (via Sourcegraph, proxied through ampcode.com)
  • Execution Method: CLI subprocess (amp command)
  • Session Persistence: Session ID (string)
  • SDK: @sourcegraph/amp-sdk (closed source)
  • Binary: Bun-bundled JS application (ELF wrapping Bun runtime + embedded JS)
  • Binary Location: /usr/local/bin/amp
  • Backend: https://ampcode.com/ (server-side proxy for all LLM requests)

CLI Usage

Interactive Mode

amp "your prompt here"
amp --model claude-sonnet-4 "your prompt"

Non-Interactive Mode

amp --print --output-format stream-json "your prompt"
amp --print --output-format stream-json --dangerously-skip-permissions "prompt"
amp --continue SESSION_ID "follow up"

Key CLI Flags

Flag Description
--print Output mode (non-interactive)
--output-format stream-json JSONL streaming output
--dangerously-skip-permissions Skip permission prompts
--continue SESSION_ID Resume existing session
--model MODEL Specify model
--toolbox TOOLBOX Toolbox configuration

Credential Discovery

Priority Order

  1. Environment variable: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
  2. Sourcegraph authentication
  3. Claude Code credentials (shared)

Config File Locations

Path Description
~/.amp/config.json Primary config
~/.claude/.credentials.json Shared with Claude Code

Amp can use Claude Code's OAuth credentials as fallback.

Streaming Response Format

Amp outputs newline-delimited JSON events:

{"type": "system", "subtype": "init", "session_id": "...", "tools": [...]}
{"type": "assistant", "message": {...}, "session_id": "..."}
{"type": "user", "message": {...}, "session_id": "..."}
{"type": "result", "subtype": "success", "result": "...", "session_id": "..."}

Read the full file on GitHub · 450 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 · 450 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3fe874a73f1a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

amp is an agent published in the GitHub repository rivet-dev/sandbox-agent (1,551 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,088 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.