honcho

honcho is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,406 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup and usage guide for Honcho, a memory service that builds user context across conversations and keeps separate agent identities for different profiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up Honcho in the cloud or locally, check its connection, manage profiles, and adjust observation, recall, and writing settings.
Why use it?
It helps preserve useful context between sessions and explains how to diagnose or tune memory behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to set up Honcho in the cloud or locally, check its connection, manage profiles, and adjust observation, recall, and writing settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/braxtonrose4/zorro-agent/honcho
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent --skill honcho
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,406 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 $0.00055 $0.02406
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01203
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00241

Measured 8d ago against content hash dc69457c8765, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

honcho 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 8d 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.

optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/honcho/SKILL.md · 244 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Honcho Memory for Zorro

Honcho provides AI-native cross-session user modeling. It learns who the user is across conversations and gives every Zorro profile its own peer identity while sharing a unified view of the user.

When to Use

  • Setting up Honcho (cloud or self-hosted)
  • Troubleshooting memory not working / peers not syncing
  • Creating multi-profile setups where each agent has its own Honcho peer
  • Tuning observation, recall, or write frequency settings
  • Understanding what the 4 Honcho tools do and when to use them

Setup

Cloud (app.honcho.dev)

zorro honcho setup
# select "cloud", paste API key from https://app.honcho.dev

Self-hosted

zorro honcho setup
# select "local", enter base URL (e.g. http://localhost:8000)

See: https://docs.honcho.dev/v3/guides/integrations/zorro#running-honcho-locally-with-zorro

Verify

zorro honcho status    # shows resolved config, connection test, peer info

Architecture

Peers

Honcho models conversations as interactions between peers. Zorro creates two peers per session:

  • User peer (peerName): represents the human. Honcho builds a user representation from observed messages.
  • AI peer (aiPeer): represents this Zorro instance. Each profile gets its own AI peer so agents develop independent views.

Observation

Each peer has two observation toggles that control what Honcho learns from:

Toggle What it does
observeMe Peer's own messages are observed (builds self-representation)
observeOthers Other peers' messages are observed (builds cross-peer understanding)

Default: all four toggles on (full bidirectional observation).

Configure per-peer in honcho.json:

{
  "observation": {
    "user": { "observeMe": true, "observeOthers": true },
    "ai":   { "observeMe": true, "observeOthers": true }
  }
}

Or use the shorthand presets:

Preset User AI Use case
"directional" (default) me:on, others:on me:on, others:on Multi-agent, full memory
"unified" me:on, others:off me:off, others:on Single agent, user-only modeling

Read the full file on GitHub · 244 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. 8d ago First seen · 244 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A dc69457c8765

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honcho is a skill published in the GitHub repository braxtonROSE4/zorro-agent (8 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,406 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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