About
About archeus
archeus is built and maintained by Babar Muhammad Anas. It is MIT licensed, free, and has no subscription and no API key of its own.
- Tests
- 1,494
- Lines of Python
- 62,489
- Commits
- 159
- GitHub stars
- 9
- Installs / month
- —
- Releases
- 1
Last measured 2026-09-08 14:05 UTC, by the repository’s own weekly metrics run.
Why it exists
It started as a session picker and became a workspace layer, because every problem it fixed turned out to sit one level below the one before it. Browsing sessions needs a project list; a project list is only useful if the next session starts with the right context; context is only affordable if something bounds it. The memory graph is the end of that chain, not the beginning.
Credits & inspiration
archeus is built on ideas from the wider Claude Code ecosystem. With thanks:
- cognee and Aider’s repo-map
- Graph memory and retrieval budgeting, both reimplemented from scratch in pure stdlib for project memory.
- Anthropic’s claude-code code-review plugin
- The confidence-scoring, high-threshold, CLAUDE.md-compliance review pattern behind archeus review.
- thedotmack/claude-mem
- The session-observation to summary to SessionStart injection pattern behind recent-work memory.
- anthropics/claude-plugins-official
- The Skills extension model and plugin structure.
- diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
- A self-hosted free-tier model proxy; the inspiration for economy model routing and now the backend behind free execution in Plan → Execute.
- olsenbrands/fable-foreman
- The skill plus worker and verifier subagent pattern for delegating execution to cheaper models under a frontier model’s plan.
- VoltAgent/awesome-claude-code-subagents
- The community catalog the agent library mirrors — 150+ agents in 10 categories. All credit for the agents goes to their original authors.
- microsoft/markitdown
- Document-to-markdown token-efficiency thinking; document ingestion is on the roadmap.
- claudemarketplaces.com and Ponytail
- Skill and plugin discovery, and the code-minimization rule behind one of the bundled hooks.
Bundled starter skills are original write-ups inspired by patterns in community collections, each credited in-file.
Licence
MIT. Use it, fork it, ship it. archeus uses your existing Claude Code authentication and adds no subscription and no API key of its own.