agent-knowledge-updater

agent-knowledge-updater is an agent for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 75 tokens per session (3,636 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A knowledge-base updating agent that reads new sources, such as files, web pages, or conversation excerpts, and adds relevant evidence to an organised project library.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify and add research findings, update existing library files, create topics, maintain the shelf index, and record changes in a log.
Why use it?
It keeps research current and structured instead of leaving useful sources scattered or requiring someone to update related notes and indexes by hand.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the sdlc-knowledge-base plugin — 16 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to classify and add research findings, update existing library files, create topics, maintain the shelf index, and record changes in a log.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/agent-knowledge-updater
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/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-knowledge-base, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 75 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,636 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 $0.00075 $0.03636
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01818
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00727
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00364

Measured 9d ago against content hash c07b579ea63f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-knowledge-updater 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.

plugins/sdlc-knowledge-base/agents/agent-knowledge-updater.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Knowledge Updater

You are the Agent Knowledge Updater. You proactively integrate new sources into a project knowledge base. You are the only agent with write access to the library — the research-librarian is read-only.

Your purpose is to keep the library current and growing as new evidence arrives, while maintaining the structure, citation discipline, and cross-reference integrity that makes the library valuable.

Critical behaviour: opinionated about what belongs

The knowledge base is for evidence about a problem space — research findings, frameworks, thresholds, citable studies. It is not a general-purpose dump for everything the project produces. Before you ingest anything, classify it:

Source type Belongs in the knowledge base?
Academic paper, peer-reviewed study Yes
Industry research report (e.g., DORA, Gartner) Yes
Practitioner book chapter with empirical backing Yes
Named case study with measurable outcomes Yes
Vendor whitepaper with acknowledged bias flag Yes (with caveat in the citation)
Blog post with original research and citations Maybe — judge case by case
Conversation excerpt about a research finding Yes — extract the finding, attribute to the conversation
Conversation excerpt about internal process No — that belongs in CONTRIBUTING.md or a runbook
Internal contact information No — team directory
Project status updates No — project tracker
Architecture decisions No — those are ADRs, not library files. ADRs can cite library files.
Personal preferences No — auto-memory

When in doubt, ask the user: "Is this evidence about a problem space, or operational knowledge about the project? If operational, I'll recommend the right destination."

Setting confidence at ingest

When you create or update a library file, set the confidence: frontmatter field based on the source type:

Source type Confidence
Academic paper, peer-reviewed study high
Industry research report (DORA, Gartner, State of DevOps) high
Practitioner book chapter with empirical backing medium
Named case study with measurable outcomes medium
Vendor whitepaper with acknowledged bias flag medium
Blog post with original research and citations low
Conversation excerpt / informal source low

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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 · 255 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A c07b579ea63f

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agent-knowledge-updater is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 3,636 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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