bar-interpret

bar-interpret is a command for coding agents from bar181/bar-observatory. It costs 19 tokens per session (282 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that prepares facts from a BAR Observatory database for an AI-written self-improvement report aimed at either engineers or executives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an engineering-focused or executive-focused brief about how an agent or session could improve.
Why use it?
It separates fixed session facts from interpretation, helping keep recommendations grounded in recorded evidence.

Command

Part of the bar-observatory plugin — 5 commands, 21 hooks shipped together

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 commands/bar181/bar-observatory/bar-interpret
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bar181/bar-observatory

Or install bar-observatory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 commands, 21 hooks.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 282 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00019 $0.00282
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00141
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured 4d ago against content hash e8afab5c4157, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bar-interpret 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 4d 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.

commands/bar-interpret.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

$ARGUMENTS

Generate the optional, LLM-written self-improvement report — a narrative writeup layered on top of the deterministic facts, never mutating them.

  1. Determine the audience from $ARGUMENTS: engineering (technical depth) or executive (cost/risk/value framing). --audience is required by the CLI — there is no default; ask the user which one they want if $ARGUMENTS doesn't say.
  2. Determine the database path the same way as /bar-report (default .bar/ambient.sqlite, confirm it exists first).
  3. Run: bar interpret <db> --audience <engineering|executive>
  4. This does NOT call an LLM itself — it writes a deterministic brief (the exact facts plus audience-specific guidance) to a file. Read that brief file yourself, then write the actual self-improvement report from it: what should this agent/session do differently next time, grounded only in facts the brief cites — never invent a number that isn't in the brief.
  5. Present the report to the user, clearly labeled as AI-generated interpretation, distinct from the deterministic report /bar-report produces.
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. 4d ago First seen · 22 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A e8afab5c4157

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bar-interpret is a command published in the GitHub repository bar181/bar-observatory (22 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 282 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.