sift CLAUDE.md

sift CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from roccodaffuso/sift. It costs 285 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for searching a project's local history of coding-agent conversations. It supports session records from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search, list, and inspect relevant past sessions while continuing project work or investigating a regression.
Why use it?
It helps recover earlier decisions, explanations, and debugging context without rereading every old conversation or sending private logs to a remote service.

Instructions file

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 instructions/roccodaffuso/sift/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/roccodaffuso/sift

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README.md
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Per session 285 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 285 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00285 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00143 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0d80622fe1a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sift 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 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.

CLAUDE.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Claude Code Project Notes

This repository includes a portable Agent Skill for local session-memory search:

.agents/skills/sift-memory/SKILL.md

Use it when prior Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or OpenCode chat/session history could help answer a question, recover a decision, debug a regression, or continue project work.

Core commands:

sift index --json
sift "<query>" --limit 10 --json
sift "<query>" --tool claude --limit 10 --json
sift "<query>" --tool codex --limit 10 --json
sift "<query>" --tool cursor --limit 10 --json
sift "<query>" --tool opencode --limit 10 --json
sift show "<ref>" --json
sift list --limit 10 --json

When the global command is unavailable inside this repo, use node ./bin/sift.js with the same arguments.

Privacy constraints:

  • Keep all sift usage local.
  • Do not send log contents or index data to remote services.
  • Do not write to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or OpenCode source logs/databases.
  • Follow only relevant result refs with sift show when surrounding context is needed.
  • Summarize only relevant findings; do not paste large raw logs.
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 · 33 lines · 285 tokens per session scan A 0d80622fe1a3

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sift CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository roccodaffuso/sift (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 285 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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.

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