tessera

A plugin that keeps a lasting map of a codebase, including its files, symbols, and dependencies, in a SQLite database. It also records design decisions and plan progress between sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route the agent toward relevant files, track plans, record architectural decisions, review plans visually, and run development workflows such as test-driven development, where tests guide the code.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to rediscover how a project is organised each time an agent starts work and helps keep implementation plans and decisions available later.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add dr-code/tessera
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/dr-code/tessera/marketplace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dr-code/tessera

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

tessera 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 yesterday.

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-plugin/marketplace.json · 28 lines

What it actually says

{
  "$schema": "https://anthropic.com/claude-code/marketplace.schema.json",
  "name": "tessera",
  "description": "Persistent codebase memory — graph-guided file routing, architectural decision locking, plan tracking, and token savings via SQLite.",
  "owner": {
    "name": "dr-code",
    "email": ""
  },
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "tessera",
      "description": "Give Claude Code persistent memory of your codebase. Builds a SQLite graph of files, symbols, and dependencies. Routes reads to the right files, tracks decisions, and records plan progress across sessions. Includes the full Superpowers development methodology, Plannotator visual plan review, and slash commands for /build, /codex-review, /mdd, and /diagram.",
      "version": "0.4.1",
      "author": {
        "name": "dr-code",
        "email": ""
      },
      "source": "./",
      "category": "development",
      "homepage": "https://github.com/dr-code/tessera",
      "repository": "https://github.com/dr-code/tessera",
      "license": "MIT",
      "keywords": ["memory", "graph", "mcp", "codebase", "context", "sqlite", "plan-review", "spec-driven", "tdd", "methodology"],
      "tags": ["context-management", "codebase-memory", "mcp-server", "graph", "methodology", "tdd", "plan-review"]
    }
  ]
}
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside marketplace.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 28 lines scan A debbbf4992fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tessera is a plugin published in the GitHub repository dr-code/tessera (1 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.