aster-cli

A guide to using aster, an AI coding agent that reads repositories, answers questions, edits code, and reviews changes. It explains setup and commands for chat, reviews, fixes, sessions, memory, and skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize a repository, review branches or GitHub pull requests, ask codebase questions, apply fixes, and manage aster's related features.
Why use it?
It gives developers one reference for configuring aster and choosing the right command for common coding tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zfinix/aster/aster-cli
Any agent
npx skills add Zfinix/aster --skill aster-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zfinix/aster

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,133 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00085 $0.01133
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00113

Measured yesterday against content hash 54a1a54c4cf3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aster-cli 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 yesterday.

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/aster-cli/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aster CLI

Aster is an AI coding agent that works in your repository: it reads and searches the code, answers questions, applies edits, and runs a review pipeline that forms hypotheses about defects, verifies them against the codebase, and reports shaped findings. It runs locally against the current repo and needs an aster.yaml (created by aster init).

Setup

aster init          # pick a provider, write aster.yaml, store the API key
aster login         # optional: link GitHub via device flow (needed for PR reviews)

aster init is interactive. Run it once per repo; keys are stored outside the repo so aster.yaml is safe to commit.

Reviewing code

aster review                    # review the current branch against its base
aster review main..HEAD         # review an explicit range
aster review path/to/file.rs    # review a single file
aster review --pr 123           # review a GitHub PR (requires aster login)

Review output is a list of findings. Prefer reviewing the smallest meaningful diff: a branch or range, not the whole repo.

Chat and fixes

aster chat                      # interactive TUI with the review agent
aster chat --print "question"   # one-shot answer to stdout (use this from scripts and agents)
aster fix                       # apply model-generated fixes for findings (dry-run by default)

As an agent, always use aster chat --print rather than the TUI. aster fix never writes without an explicit apply flag; run it plain first and inspect the dry-run output.

Sessions and memory

aster sessions                  # list saved chat sessions for this repo
aster sessions show <id>        # print a session's full transcript
aster memory                    # list stored durable memory
aster memory add "fact"         # append a fact to project memory
aster memory add --title t "…"  # save a titled memory block

Both accept --json; see below.

Skills

Aster loads agent skills from .aster/skills (project) and <config>/aster/skills (user-global).

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. yesterday First seen · 106 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 54a1a54c4cf3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aster-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zfinix/aster (40 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,133 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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