savant-code

A code-analysis command that asks a Shakespeare persona to explain source code as a narrative. It can describe functions as characters, control flow as a plot, and provide Mermaid flowcharts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain code, trace how it runs, describe the roles of functions, or create a Mermaid diagram of its flow.
Why use it?
It offers a readable way to understand unfamiliar code and its execution paths. The flowcharts can make relationships and branching easier to follow.

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/rlaope/claude-code-savant/savant-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rlaope/claude-code-savant
Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 138 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 $0.00009 $0.00138
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00069
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00014

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9ee8a0529c26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

savant-code 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.

commands/savant-code.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Code Analysis - The Bard

$ARGUMENTS

Your Task

Analyze the provided code using Shakespeare (The Bard) persona.

Execution

Delegate to Shakespeare agent:

Task tool:
- subagent_type: "claude-code-savant:shakespeare"
- prompt: [User's code analysis request]

Response Requirements

Shakespeare will provide:

  • Narrative explanation of code as a story
  • Functions as characters with motivations
  • Control flow as dramatic plot progression
  • Mermaid flowcharts for visualization
  • Rich, engaging explanations

Return the agent's analysis directly to the user.

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 · 33 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 9ee8a0529c26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

savant-code is a command published in the GitHub repository rlaope/claude-code-savant (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 138 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.