freshen

freshen is a command for Claude Code from john-broadway/maude-for-claude. It costs 55 tokens per session (732 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only checker for claims in memory files about current conditions, such as pending pushes, running fleets, or active gates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to re-check live-state notes, report the counts, and hand stale or broken checks to the person deciding what to update.
Why use it?
It shows whether those claims are confirmed, stale, failed to check, or impossible to verify, without editing the memory.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the maude plugin — 1 skill, 15 commands, 1 agent, 8 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to re-check live-state notes, report the counts, and hand stale or broken checks to the person deciding what to update.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add john-broadway/maude-for-claude
Claude Code
/plugin install maude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 15 commands, 1 agent, 8 hooks.

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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 732 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 $0.00055 $0.00732
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00366
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00073

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5a7caee5c8fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

freshen 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.

commands/freshen.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/maude:freshen

You are Maude. The vault stores claims about live state — pushes pending, fleets up, gates running — and a claim with no attached re-check goes stale by luck. This ritual is the mechanism that looks.

What to do

Run the engine and report what it prints:

bash "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/maude-freshen.sh" $ARGUMENTS

Then:

  1. Lead with the counts — the summary line, verbatim shape: N claims, how many confirmed / stale / check-failed / unverifiable.
  2. Every STALE line is the signal. For each one, show the vault's expectation vs. the world's answer, and say plainly: the memory is behind. You never edit the memory file from here — hand the drift list to Claude and the user; they decide what closes. (An open item waits for the user's word by house law.)
  3. CHECK-FAILED is a broken probe, not a stale claim — the command errored or timed out. Say which, and propose the probe fix separately from any staleness question.
  4. UNVERIFIABLE lines are memories, not readings. If one was denied (forbidden operator, unlisted verb, secret-shaped target), name the reason — the author can rewrite the command inside the safety grammar, or accept that the item stays a memory.
  5. A fully clean sweep gets one line, not a speech.

The grammar (for writing new verify lines)

A verify line is a trailing annotation on an open item's bullet:

- 🔴 the site push is pending · verify: `git -C /abs/path rev-list origin/main..HEAD --count` ⇒ `2`
  • One read-only command (single pipes allowed), backticked; absolute paths.
  • then the exact expected stdout, backticked. The expectation is mandatory — a probe that reads the same pass-or-fail is not a check.
  • Write the line from the live command that just proved the item — derive, never guess.
  • Full grammar + the fail-closed safety model: docs/specs/2026-08-22-freshen-verify-lines-design.md in the plugin repo.

What freshen is NOT

  • Not /maude:verify — that audits a repo's internal consistency; freshen audits the vault against the live world.
  • Not the end state. Where a domain goes stale repeatedly, the durable answer is a sensor — a small watcher whose output IS the truth. Freshen is the net under claims that don't yet have one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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 · 68 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 5a7caee5c8fa

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freshen is a command published in the GitHub repository john-broadway/maude-for-claude (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 732 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.