strata:doctor

strata:doctor is a skill for Claude Code from gideondk/strata. It costs 108 tokens per session (622 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A health check for a Strata installation that verifies its packages, note storage, project setup, search index, semantic search, MCP server, and Git awareness. Semantic search finds related meaning, while an index speeds up text searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after installation or when Strata seems broken to check required components, search quality, project connection, and branch or pull-request awareness.
Why use it?
It shows whether the installation is working and identifies missing or degraded parts with suggested fixes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/me/StrataVault.

Part of the strata plugin — 24 skills, 2 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it after installation or when Strata seems broken to check required…

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add gideondk/strata
Claude Code
/plugin install strata

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install strata, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 2 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 622 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 $0.00108 $0.00622
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00062

Measured 6d ago against content hash d8f692c12443, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strata:doctor 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 6d 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.

skills/doctor/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

strata:doctor

The post-install "is it actually working?" surface. Onboarding's real friction isn't the install command — it's the silent uncertainty after: did the venv build, is the vault wired, will semantic search work or quietly fall back to FTS? doctor answers all of it at once.

How

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/strata" doctor

What it checks

Check Required? Failure means
runtime packages yes venv didn't build — pip install -r requirements.txt
vault directory yes vault_path wrong or not writable
repo namespace yes not initialised — run /strata:init
search index warn 0 notes is fine on a fresh vault
semantic search warn model not ready — recall degrades to FTS5
MCP server yes server.py / .mcp.json missing from the install
git repo warn branch/PR scoping disabled outside a repo

Exit code is 0 when every required check passes, 1 otherwise.

What you'll see

[strata] doctor — health check for myrepo

  ✓ runtime packages — 3 required, 2/2 optional present
  ✓ vault directory — /Users/me/StrataVault
  ✓ repo namespace — myrepo → ~/StrataVault/myrepo
  ✓ search index — 142 note(s) indexed (318 KB)
  ✓ semantic search — embeddings available (hybrid FTS+vector)
  ✓ MCP server — server.py + .mcp.json present
  ✓ git repo — branch/PR awareness active

[strata] ✓ healthy — ready to save, decide, and recall

When to use

  • Right after /strata:init, to confirm the runtime is good before the first save / decide / recall.
  • Whenever recall returns nothing surprising and the user wonders if it's broken (often it's the FTS fallback, which this makes visible).
  • As a quick sanity pass after git pull + /reload-plugins.

Don't do

  • Don't fix things silently. Surface each ⚠/✗ with its hint and let the user decide. The point is legibility.
  • Don't treat a ⚠ (warn) as failure — optional gaps still leave a working plugin.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 6d ago First seen · 63 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A d8f692c12443

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strata:doctor is a skill published in the GitHub repository gideondk/strata (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 622 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.