What is codesage-prompt-override?

A command that prints instructions for Claude Code to prefer CodeSage's code-retrieval tools over Grep for certain searches. Grep is a command-line tool that finds matching text in files.

It is for generating a system-prompt fragment and using it once per session or adding it to Claude Code settings so retrieval questions are routed to the specified CodeSage tools.

It addresses situations where Claude Code chooses ordinary text search even when a code-aware retrieval tool would better answer questions about structure or impact.

codesage-prompt-override — Command for Claude Code by iliaal/codesage

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/iliaal/codesage

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install codesage-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 10 commands, 2 agents, 1 hook.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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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 168 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00019	$0.00168
Opus 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00067
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00034
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00017

Measured 15d ago against content hash 0a296993746b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codesage-prompt-override 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 15d 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/codesage-tools/commands/codesage-prompt-override.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

CodeSage routing pointer

Run bin/codesage-prompt-override under the installed plugin root and show its stdout. Invoke the executable with its path as one quoted argument. The command prints a pointer to the current retrieval skill; it no longer maintains a second tool-selection policy. Existing callers can continue to consume its text output.

Load the named skill, or read the emitted JSON-string path as file-path data. Do not execute that path as shell source. The skill contains tool selection, freshness, uncertainty, recovery, ordering, and measured-cost guidance.

Printing the pointer does not change host configuration. Obtain the user's authorization before installing it into a persistent prompt setting.

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.

15d ago Changed · -22 lines · -15 tokens per session scan B → A 0a296993746b
1mo ago Changed 32732614ff05
1mo ago Changed df0e5db6b4fa
1mo ago First seen · 41 lines · 34 tokens per session scan B 2230754f17c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codesage-prompt-override is a command published in the GitHub repository iliaal/codesage (21 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 168 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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codesage-prompt-override

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

CodeSage routing pointer

What this file has done since we first saw it

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