agora-code CLAUDE.md

Repository instructions for agora-code, a tool that gives AI agents persistent memory and helps discover APIs through automatic hooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working in the agora-code repository. They explain session-context injection, file summarization before reading long files, and the commands and hooks that manage learned context.
Why use it?
They enforce file-reading limits and required commands so the agent uses the project’s memory and indexing workflow consistently.

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/thebnbrkr/agora-code/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thebnbrkr/agora-code
Per session 743 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 743 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 $0.00743 $0.00743
Opus 5 $0.00371 $0.00371
Sonnet 5 $0.00149 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00074 $0.00074

Measured 2d ago against content hash 90b7ccdd8538, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agora-code 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 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.

CLAUDE.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agora-code — Claude Code Instructions

HARD RULES — enforced by hooks, do not bypass

  • NEVER use the Explore subagent — it bypasses agora-code hooks. Use Read/Grep/Glob directly. The PreToolUse(Agent) hook will block it.
  • NEVER call Read on a file >50 lines without running agora-code summarize <file> first — the pre-read.sh hook enforces this too.

These are mechanical constraints, not preferences.


This project provides persistent memory and API discovery for AI agents.

How it works

Everything is automatic via Claude Code hooks. When you read a file, symbols and code blocks are indexed. When a session ends, the transcript is parsed into a structured checkpoint. On every prompt, relevant learnings are recalled.

You do not need to manually run agora-code learn or agora-code recall — the hooks handle it.

Always do this

  • At session start, run agora-code inject to load previous session context
  • STOP — before ANY Read tool call on a file over ~50 lines:
    1. Run agora-code summarize <file> first
    2. Then use offset+limit to read ONLY the sections you need Skipping this wastes the entire point of the tool.
  • After every file edit, run:
    agora-code track-diff <file> --note "one sentence: what changed and why"
    
    Write what function/class changed, what it calls/depends on and where, and the outcome. Tag #not_kept if you reverted — kept changes are auto-tagged #kept on commit. Example: "tried caching in validate_user() via redisupload() in redis_db.py to reduce DB hits — didn't work #not_kept"

Tool reference

Command When to use
agora-code inject Session start — loads structured checkpoint, learnings, git state, symbol index
agora-code summarize <file> Before reading large files — 75%+ token reduction
agora-code learn "<text>" Force-save a specific finding right now (optional — auto-done by on-stop.sh)
agora-code recall "<query>" Search past findings (optional — auto-done by on-prompt.sh)
agora-code checkpoint --goal "..." Save progress mid-task
agora-code status Check current session and DB stats
agora-code complete --summary "..." Archive session to long-term memory when done

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 62 lines · 743 tokens per session scan A 90b7ccdd8538

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agora-code CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository thebnbrkr/agora-code (46 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 743 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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 2026-08-30.

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