branch.fork_at_timestamp

branch.fork_at_timestamp is a command for coding agents from stratalab/strata-core. It costs 0 tokens per session (181 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that creates a new database branch from a particular point in retained history, using a timestamp from the database's logical clock.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a branch from an earlier timestamp for testing, investigation, or further development.
Why use it?
It lets developers recover or inspect the database as it existed at a chosen historical point, provided that history is still retained.

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/stratalab/strata-core/branch.fork_at_timestamp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stratalab/strata-core

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 181 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 $0.00000 $0.00181
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00090
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00018

Measured 4d ago against content hash 731f6cfa9e78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

branch.fork_at_timestamp 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.

crates/executor/idl/v1/prose/commands/branch.fork_at_timestamp.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

Forks a new branch anchored at a retained source timestamp (microseconds, on Strata's logical commit clock). The engine resolves the timestamp to the covering retained commit; the returned parent lineage records both the fork timestamp and the resolved fork version. A timestamp outside retained history fails with history_unavailable.engine.persistence_history.

This command has no dedicated CLI verb: the CLI expresses it as strata branch fork <SOURCE> <BRANCH> --timestamp <TIMESTAMP> (one shared branch fork verb routes to all three fork commands, so only branch.fork owns the CLI path). It remains fully reachable through the generic wire surface — strata command run, MCP, and SDKs.

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 · 9 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 731f6cfa9e78

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branch.fork_at_timestamp is a command published in the GitHub repository stratalab/strata-core (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 181 tokens. 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.