What is orcbot CLAUDE.md?

A repository guide for OrcBot, an autonomous TypeScript AI agent that plans multi-step tasks, uses tools, and delivers results through different channels. It documents the commands, architecture, and file-backed state used by the agent.

Building, running, and testing OrcBot, and modifying its command-line interface, agent loop, decision process, skills, or stored state.

It gives contributors a map of the codebase and explains how the agent's planning loop, skills, decision engine, and persistent data fit together.

How fredabila/orcbot configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to fredabila/orcbot. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fredabila/orcbot/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fredabila/orcbot

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,690 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,690 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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	$0.01690	$0.01690
Opus 5.5	$0.00676	$0.00676
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00338	$0.00338
Haiku 4.5	$0.00169	$0.00169

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1221a8792276, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orcbot CLAUDE.md 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 2mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Commands

npm run build          # tsc compile → dist/ (also copies Chrome CDP files)
npm run build:fast     # esbuild fast bundle (node build.mjs)
npm run dev            # ts-node dev mode
npm test               # vitest run --reporter=dot
npm run test:watch     # vitest watch mode
npm start              # run compiled CLI from dist/

Run a single test file:

npx vitest run tests/decisionEngine.test.ts

Architecture

OrcBot is an autonomous AI agent orchestrator. It plans multi-step tasks using a ReAct loop (Thought→Action→Observation), executes skills (tools), and delivers results over multiple channels. All state is file-backed under ~/.orcbot/ (or ORCBOT_DATA_DIR).

Layer Map

Layer	Key File(s)	Role
CLI	`src/cli/index.ts`	Entrypoint, TUI menus, daemon management
Agent	`src/core/Agent.ts`	Main action loop, registers 80+ skills, wires all subsystems
Decision Engine	`src/core/DecisionEngine.ts`	Assembles prompt + context, calls LLM, validates response, runs termination review
Simulation	`src/core/SimulationEngine.ts`	Pre-plans execution before tools run
Parser	`src/core/ParserLayer.ts`	3-tier fallback: strict JSON → relaxed → regex extraction
Decision Pipeline	`src/core/DecisionPipeline.ts`	Post-parse guardrails (dedup, loop detection, frequency limits)
Prompts	`src/core/prompts/`	8 modular helpers (Core, Tooling, Browser, Research, …); PromptRouter injects only relevant ones
LLM Routing	`src/core/MultiLLM.ts`	`gemini`→Google, `nvidia:`→NVIDIA, `bedrock:*`→AWS, else OpenAI; auto-fallback
Skills Manager	`src/core/SkillsManager.ts`	Skill registry, dynamic plugin loading from `~/.orcbot/plugins/`, intent matching
Memory	`src/memory/MemoryManager.ts`	Short/episodic/long tiers + vector semantic search
Action Queue	`src/memory/ActionQueue.ts`	Priority-sorted durable queue with retry, chaining, TTL
Storage	`src/storage/JSONAdapter.ts`	Atomic JSON writes (temp→rename), `.bak` crash recovery
Channels	`src/channels/`	Telegram (Telegraf), WhatsApp (Baileys), Discord (discord.js), Web Gateway (Express+WS)
Browser	`src/tools/WebBrowser.ts`	Playwright + Serper/Google/Bing/DDG search chain, 2Captcha
Config	`src/config/ConfigManager.ts`	YAML hot-reload; never hardcode keys — use `ConfigManager.get()`

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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.

2mo ago First seen · 152 lines · 1,690 tokens per session scan A 1221a8792276

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orcbot CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository fredabila/orcbot (11 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,690 tokens to every session, about $0.0068 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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