dekko-daemon

dekko-daemon is a skill for Claude Code from aahlijia/dekko. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Background process that keeps a repository's dekko code map in memory between command-line calls. A code map records the repository's files and code relationships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before repeated Bash-based dekko searches, queries, dependency checks, or refactoring investigations on the same repository.
Why use it?
Repeated command-line queries otherwise reload and re-index the map each time. The daemon can make batches of dekko queries faster, but is unnecessary for a single command or a small repository.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dekko plugin — 5 skills, 3 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it before repeated Bash-based dekko searches, queries, dependency checks, or refactoring investigations on the same repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aahlijia/dekko/dekko-daemon
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aahlijia/dekko --skill dekko-daemon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aahlijia/dekko

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dekko, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,002 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00094 $0.01002
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00501
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00100

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0ac7f6c7c5b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dekko-daemon 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 9d 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.

integrations/claude/skills/dekko-daemon/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Warming up repeated dekko CLI calls with the daemon

dekko daemon start spawns a small per-repo background process that keeps a warm, in-memory map index across CLI invocations, instead of each one reloading and re-indexing map.json from disk. It only matters for the bare CLI path (commands run via Bash) — if you're calling the MCP tools (mcp__dekko__*) instead, skip this: the MCP server already keeps its own warm per-process cache (Context.index_cache) independently, by design, so nothing here applies there.

When to start it

dekko daemon start        # spawns it, returns immediately

Worth doing at the start of a Bash-CLI-heavy stretch of work — a refactor loop running query/affected/workset repeatedly, a batch of outline/search calls while orienting in a large repo, or scripted/hook invocations. Skip it for a one-off dekko map or a single query; the daemon adds spin-up overhead that isn't worth it for one call. On a small repo (fast reload already), it's rarely worth the trouble either way.

Read-only subcommands route through it transparently once running (query, search, workset, diff, affected, outline, context, trace, stats, summary, lean, unused, status, note list, export) — same output and exit code, just without the reload. Write-path commands (map, note add/note rm, hooks ...) always run directly regardless. Pass --no-daemon on any command to force direct execution for that one call.

Checking it and shutting down

dekko daemon status          # running? pid, uptime, cache hits/misses
dekko daemon stop            # graceful shutdown

No need to proactively stop it — it self-shuts-down after 30 minutes idle by default. Only stop it explicitly if you need a guaranteed-cold next read (rare) or are done with a long session and want to be tidy.

What it does not speed up

  • diff/affected's old-side (the git rev being diffed against) reparse is not covered by the warm cache at all — that cache only ever holds the current working tree's index. A comparison against a rev it hasn't seen before pays the same reparse cost a direct invocation would; only a repeat comparison against the same already-cached rev benefits (via the separate on-disk .dekko/rev-cache/, shared with direct calls regardless of daemon use).
  • It never trades correctness for speed: every read re-validates the cached index the same way a direct invocation would, so a working-tree edit or an out-of-band dekko map is never served stale.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 9d ago First seen · 86 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 0ac7f6c7c5b8

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dekko-daemon is a skill published in the GitHub repository aahlijia/dekko (3 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,002 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.