lateral-thinker

lateral-thinker is an agent for Claude Code from samvallad33/vestige. It costs 82 tokens per session (769 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A background helper that looks for structural similarities between ideas from different fields using a stored memory graph.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding cross-disciplinary parallels while preparing a coding-agent request.
Why use it?
It can surface connections that may be easy to miss when thinking within one field. It runs automatically during a prompt-submission check and may return one XML result or nothing.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Finding cross-disciplinary parallels while preparing a coding-agent request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/samvallad33/vestige/lateral-thinker
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/samvallad33/vestige

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Per session 82 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 769 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 unknown 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 $0.00082 $0.00769
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00308
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00077

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4ae0727daccc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lateral-thinker 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.

agents/lateral-thinker.md · 52 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 52 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 4ae0727daccc

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lateral-thinker is an agent published in the GitHub repository samvallad33/vestige (653 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 769 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 2026-08-30.

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