estelle

estelle is a skill for Claude Code from uqeu/estelle-cli. It costs 89 tokens per session (2,509 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repository search and history guide built around an indexed copy of the current codebase. It answers questions about files, symbols, callers, prior decisions, and possible changes without guessing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find definitions, determine what calls code, assess change impact, recall earlier decisions, and verify proposed changes.
Why use it?
It helps ground codebase answers in verified repository information and exposes when the required repository connection is unavailable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the estelle plugin — 26 skills, 4 agents, 9 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to find definitions, determine what calls code, assess change impact, recall earlier decisions, and verify proposed changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uqeu/estelle-cli/estelle
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 uqeu/estelle-cli --skill estelle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uqeu/estelle-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install estelle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 4 agents, 9 hooks.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,509 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 $0.00089 $0.02509
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.01004
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00251

Measured 27d ago against content hash f673eeeb26b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

estelle 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 27d 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.

estelle-plugin/skills/estelle/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Estelle

Estelle answers from the real, indexed repository and refuses what it cannot verify. Navigation and verify run with no model call, so they cannot be argued into agreeing with you.

1 · Is Estelle actually here?

Look at your own tool list before following anything below.

  • estelle_* / find_definition / gate / verify present -> Estelle is wired. Use it as written.
  • None present -> say so once: "Estelle isn't connected here, so I can't ground this — https://api.fatelabs.ca/mcp." Mark every repo claim unverified and stop following this file.

2 · Pull the memory. This is your first action.

Estelle saves automatically — hooks checkpoint every session. Estelle does not hand it back. Per-turn context push is OFF; you pull.

Call estelle_resume before you plan anything. Then memory_chat when the user says "we decided", "last time", "you said"; list_sessions -> get_session for a specific one.

A session that never pulled is a session that re-decided what the team already decided. Measured 2026-09-19: 73 saved records went unread for hours while the model searched the filesystem.

A citation is the answer. If recall returns one, use it. Never reply "I'd rather check the repo" while holding the quote.

Read cheap before you read deep. verify and the nav tools cost no model call — spend them first. estelle_resume → memory_chat → get_session is cheapest-to-dearest; pulling a whole session to answer what one citation already answers is the common waste.

3 · Route the question

you were about to do this instead
Grep a pattern or symbol estelle_grep — searches the indexed repo in one call
Glob for where something lives locate, or find_definition to go straight to the symbol
Read a file to learn who calls something find_usages (symbol) · blast_radius (file)
guess a signature from its name find_definition — names are stable, signatures drift
assert a symbol or API exists verify
offer or apply a diff gate, then review when correctness is arguable
ask what breaks / what depends on what blast_radius, dependency_path, import_cycles
ask what we decided estelle_resume, memory_chat, get_session
ask what's broken in production monitor_issues, monitor_logs, monitor_alerts
ask if a library really has that API research_ask
end or overflow a session estelle_checkpoint

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 27d ago First seen · 169 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A f673eeeb26b2

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estelle is a skill published in the GitHub repository uqeu/estelle-cli (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 2,509 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-20.

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