Siltpoke

A coding companion for CLI agents. It codes with you. And grows with you.

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What it is

Siltpoke is an independent second mind that rides along while you build with your CLI coding agent. It catches what you missed, helps you understand the codebase you shipped, and learns what you actually care about — a pet that earns its opinions, remembers your projects, and is wholly yours. On the token budget you already have.

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Not five tools — one nervous system, four organs keyed to a single project:

• Code Review. A separate claude -p subprocess (your existing Claude Code login — no extra LLM bill) reviews each turn with its own prompt and personality, catching what the writing-side Claude missed. Every claim cites file:line evidence. Reviews land on disk — you forward, dismiss (it learns), or ignore. Pull, never push.
• Code-map. A structural map of your codebase it can reason over — ask it to explain a file or symbol, grounded in the real call graph.
• Memory. Bugs fingerprinted across sessions; facts you tell it remembered across projects. Data stays on your disk — no siltpoke cloud, no telemetry.
• Chat. Talk to it with all of the above in context.

And it's a Tamagotchi — pet it, level it up, unlock poses. The pet is the surface that makes it feel like a companion, not a dashboard. Runs ~$0.04–$0.10/day on typical use, thanks to prompt caching.

Setup (90 seconds)

Need: Claude Code (logged in) + Bun >= 1.0. Already have a statusline? Siltpoke wraps it — face renders on top.

git clone https://github.com/Victoriakaey/siltpoke.git ~/siltpoke
cd ~/siltpoke
bun install
bun run setup        # 4 prompts: statusline, name, species, language

Restart Claude Code → ASCII face appears in your statusline. Send any message → within ~3s Siltpoke says hi. Trouble? /siltpoke-doctor runs 7 install-health checks, or see docs § Troubleshooting.

Use it with project-life-cycle

Pairs well with project-life-cycle — a Claude Code skill adding spec → plan → execute → ship → release discipline (/init-harness → /ship → /release). project-life-cycle structures the work; Siltpoke reviews it and remembers what broke. Better together, fully independent.

claude plugin marketplace add Victoriakaey/project-life-cycle
claude plugin install project-lifecycle@project-life-cycle

Daily use

The whole loop is 3 commands:

/siltpoke-inbox                   List pending reviews
/siltpoke-forward <id>            Pull one into the chat (+10 XP if fresh)
/siltpoke-dismiss <id> <reason>   Reject — Siltpoke learns why it was wrong

The dashboard has the rest — state card, code review inbox, chat, memory, timeline, code-map:

/siltpoke-report                  Open dashboard → http://127.0.0.1:9876

Chat (/siltpoke-chat), memory (/siltpoke-remember), code-map (/siltpoke-index → /siltpoke-graph → /siltpoke-explain), config, and the full 35-command reference: docs § Slash commands or /siltpoke-help in-chat.

Uninstall

bun run uninstall              # restore settings, keep data
bun run uninstall -- --purge   # restore + nuke ~/.siltpoke/

License

Siltpoke is source-available under the PolyForm Perimeter License 1.0.1.

You're free to use, modify, and share it for any purpose — including inside a for-profit company's own work — except building or offering a product that competes with Siltpoke. That includes repackaging or reselling it, bundling it into a paid product, or offering a hosted / SaaS version of it.

Want to bundle, resell, or host Siltpoke commercially? That needs a separate commercial license — reach out at jd.victoria.work@gmail.com.

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