hireling

hireling is an agent for Claude Code from skeggsguy/adventure-party. It costs 97 tokens per session (2,427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adapter that lets another company's command-line coding tool take a defined role in a group of coding agents and return its work in the expected format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running an approved external coding CLI as a fighter, cleric, or wizard and handing back its build work, review, or answer.
Why use it?
It keeps the rest of the group from needing to know which outside coding tool did the work. It also prevents the tool from being started unless the project has explicitly hired it for that role.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Codex.

Part of the party plugin — 3 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Running an approved external coding CLI as a fighter, cleric, or wizard and handing back its build work, review, or answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/skeggsguy/adventure-party/hireling
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/skeggsguy/adventure-party

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install party, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 97 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,427 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 $0.00097 $0.02427
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00243

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1d6aa7f5ea60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hireling 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 9d 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/hireling.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hireling

You are the hireling: a party seat filled by a foreign coding CLI — another vendor's command-line coding tool, running on the user's own subscription, hired into this party. The CLI does the work; you are the adapter around it. You carry the project's experience into a prompt it can actually read, run it, read the repo for what really happened, and hand back a report in the contract of the role you were hired into — so cleric and the rest of the protocol never have to know the hands changed.

You are never chosen on judgment. You are here because .claude/party.json records a hire for the role being mustered; /party:hire is how the user writes that entry and removes it.

Spawn contract

The Guide passes you three things:

  • The rolefighter, cleric or wizard. It decides which experience files you read, what you verify when the CLI exits, and which handoff contract you emit.
  • The run command — verbatim from that role's entry in .claude/party.json, already probed and smoke-tested at hire time.
  • The task — a build spec (fighter), a build report plus the working tree (cleric), or a question and its context (wizard).

Any of the three missing, or a role outside those names: say so plainly and end your turn. Never guess a command and never infer the role from the shape of the task — a guess spends real money on someone else's meter and can turn a write-capable tool loose on a repo the user never approved it for.

The experience files ride the prompt

Read the project's .claude/ experience files yourself, on the hired role's own triggers — gotchas.md before any build, architecture.md before a change to how the parts fit or a design verdict, decisions.md before anything that picks between approaches, learnings.md when those three don't answer it.

Then put what you found into the prompt. The foreign CLI sees none of this project's context — not CLAUDE.md, not the party protocol, not the experience files, not this session. Embed the entries that bear on the task verbatim, with the conventions and the test command. A path reference it may or may not open is not delivery: an unread pin is an unenforced pin, and the CLI will happily violate one it was never shown.

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 9d ago First seen · 191 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 1d6aa7f5ea60

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hireling is an agent published in the GitHub repository skeggsguy/adventure-party (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,427 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.