software-heritage-api

software-heritage-api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wentorai/research-plugins. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to the Software Heritage API, which archives source code and its history from many public repositories and package sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search repositories, inspect project snapshots, retrieve archived files, and analyze software provenance or history.
Why use it?
It helps you find older code, trace where it came from, and cite archived versions with persistent identifiers.

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 search repositories, inspect project snapshots, retrieve archived files, and analyze software provenance or history.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wentorai/research-plugins/software-heritage-api
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 wentorai/research-plugins --skill software-heritage-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00016 $0.01591
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00796
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00159

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8febacc0ef04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-heritage-api scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/search/scikit-learn/?limit=10"
skills/domains/cs/software-heritage-api/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Software Heritage API

Overview

Software Heritage is the universal archive of software source code, preserving 18B+ source files from 280M+ software origins (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, CRAN, PyPI, Debian, etc.). Each artifact receives a persistent SWHID (SoftWare Heritage IDentifier) for reliable citation in research. The API enables code search, provenance tracking, and historical analysis. Free, no authentication for read access.

API Endpoints

Base URL

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1

Search Origins (Repositories)

# Search for repositories
curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/search/scikit-learn/?limit=10"

# Get origin metadata
curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/get/"

# List visits (snapshots) of an origin
curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/visits/"

Retrieve Content

# Get a specific file by its SHA1 hash
curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/content/sha1:adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc/"

# Get raw file content
curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/content/sha1:adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc/raw/"

# Get directory listing
curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/directory/{sha1_git}/"

Resolve SWHIDs

# Resolve a SWHID to its object
curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/resolve/swh:1:cnt:adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc/"

# Get snapshot
curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/snapshot/{sha1_git}/"

# Get revision (commit)
curl "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/revision/{sha1_git}/"

Save Code Now

# Request archival of a repository
curl -X POST "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/origin/save/git/url/https://github.com/user/repo/"

SWHID Format

SoftWare Heritage persistent IDentifiers:

swh:1:{type}:{hash}

Types:
  cnt  → Content (file)
  dir  → Directory
  rev  → Revision (commit)
  rel  → Release (tag)
  snp  → Snapshot

Examples:
  swh:1:cnt:94a9ed024d3859793618152ea559a168bbcbb5e2  (file)
  swh:1:rev:309cf2674ee7a0749978cf8265ab91a60aea0f7d  (commit)
  swh:1:snp:c7c108084bc0bf3d81436bf980b46e98571c7b17  (snapshot)

With qualifiers:
  swh:1:cnt:{hash};origin=https://github.com/user/repo;visit=swh:1:snp:{hash};path=/src/main.py

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 7d ago First seen · 201 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 8febacc0ef04

Subscribe to this mod's changes

software-heritage-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository wentorai/research-plugins (291 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,591 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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