refs

A command for searching references across all project workspaces, including pull requests and Jira tickets. It can group results by repository and workspace, including active and retired workspaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to filter references by type, repository, status, or search term, and optionally show live pull-request states for up to ten pull requests per repository.
Why use it?
It saves you from checking each workspace's metadata separately when looking for related project references.

Command

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/mdsakalu/agent-plugins/refs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mdsakalu/agent-plugins
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 517 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 $0.00008 $0.00517
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00259
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00052

Measured 2d ago against content hash 319335f1a906, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refs 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 2d 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.

workspace/commands/refs.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Search and display references across all workspaces (PRs, Jira tickets).

Resolve the metarepo path by reading ~/.claude/workspace-config.json and expanding ~ to $HOME.

The user's request: $ARGUMENTS

Steps

  1. Read ~/.claude/workspace-config.json to get the metarepo path. Expand ~ to $HOME.
  2. Scan all workspace metadata files: <metarepo>/notes/**/workspace.json
    • This covers all repos and all workspaces (active + retired)
  3. For each workspace.json, extract the references array.
  4. Build a combined list with workspace context: repo name, workspace name, active/retired status.
  5. If the user requested filtering:
    • By type: --type pr or --type jira
    • By repo: --repo my-repo
    • By status: active-only or retired-only (check retired field in workspace.json)
    • By search term: filter refs matching a keyword
  6. Optionally enrich PR references with live status:
    • For each repo, read .repo.json for GitHub owner/repo
    • Run: gh pr view <number> --json state,title --repo <owner>/<repo> (limit to 10 PRs)
    • Show state: OPEN, CLOSED, MERGED
  7. Format output grouped by workspace:
    my-repo/epic-auth-refactor (active)
      - PR #42: Add user authentication [MERGED]
      - Jira PROJ-100
    
    my-repo/pr-99 (retired)
      - PR #99: Fix pagination bug [CLOSED]
    
  8. Show summary: total references, breakdown by type, breakdown by repo.

Important

  • Always resolve metarepo from ~/.claude/workspace-config.json, never hardcode paths.
  • References are in notes/<repo>/<workspace>/workspace.json (source of truth).
  • Scan all repos and workspaces, not just the current one.
  • Limit gh pr view calls to avoid rate limiting (max 10 enrichment calls).
  • Handle cases where workspace.json exists but has no references.
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. 2d ago First seen · 46 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 319335f1a906

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refs is a command published in the GitHub repository mdsakalu/agent-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 517 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.