honcho-config

honcho-config is a skill for Claude Code from plastic-labs/cursor-honcho. It costs 12 tokens per session (2,183 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive setup guide for configuring Honcho, a service that gives coding agents persistent memory. It presents settings as questions and shows the current configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view Honcho settings, choose memory-related options, and create or update the configuration.
Why use it?
It avoids editing configuration files by hand or interpreting raw settings data. It also makes it clear when no configuration exists yet.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the honcho plugin — 4 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to view Honcho settings, choose memory-related options, and create or update the configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plastic-labs/cursor-honcho/honcho-config
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.

Any agent
npx skills add plastic-labs/cursor-honcho --skill honcho-config
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plastic-labs/cursor-honcho

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install honcho, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,183 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 $0.00012 $0.02183
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00873
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00218

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 243b2edd1c5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

honcho-config 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 2mo 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.

plugins/honcho/skills/honcho-config/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Honcho Configuration

Interactive configuration for the Honcho memory plugin. Uses AskUserQuestion for all menus and selections — never dump numbered text lists.

Step 1: Status Header

Call get_config to load the current state. The response includes a card field — a pre-rendered box-drawing card with perfect alignment.

Output the card value exactly as-is inside a code fence. Do not modify it, re-render it, or add any formatting. Just wrap it in triple backticks:

```
{card value here, verbatim}
```
  • Do NOT show cache info, config paths, or raw JSON.
  • Do NOT show warnings unless they indicate something is broken (skip env var shadowing warnings where the values match what's configured).
  • If configExists is false, tell the user no config exists and offer to create one.

Step 2: Menu

Use AskUserQuestion with two questions to present the menu. First question selects the category, second selects the specific setting.

Present ONE question with these options:

AskUserQuestion:
  question: "What would you like to configure?"
  header: "Config"
  options:
    - label: "Peers"
      description: "Your name and AI name (currently: {resolved.peerName} / {resolved.aiPeer})"
    - label: "Session mapping"
      description: "How sessions are named — per directory, git branch, or per chat (currently: {resolved.sessionStrategy})"
    - label: "Workspace"
      description: "Data space, linking, and cross-tool context (currently: {resolved.workspace})"

If the user selects "Other", present advanced options:

AskUserQuestion:
  question: "Advanced settings:"
  header: "Advanced"
  options:
    - label: "Host"
      description: "Platform / local / custom URL (currently: {current.host})"
    - label: "Context refresh"
      description: "TTL, message threshold, dialectic settings"
    - label: "Message upload"
      description: "Token limits, summarization settings"

Always include current values in the description so the user can see what's set.

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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. 2mo ago First seen · 268 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 243b2edd1c5b

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honcho-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository plastic-labs/cursor-honcho (7 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 2,183 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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