siftcoder

SiftCoder

Persistent project memory + local-LLM offload + Salesforce domain skills for Claude Code.

📖 Full documentation: ialameh.github.io/sift-coder — quickstart, mental model, architecture, every CLI command, every skill, every agent, troubleshooting, and a cookbook of real workflows.

SiftCoder is a Claude Code plugin that adds four things Claude Code does not have natively:

1. Persistent, queryable memory across sessions — with provenance (mem_why), decay, and RRF retrieval.
2. Local-LLM offload (Ollama) for summarisation and embeddings — cuts steady-state token cost ~50×.
3. Salesforce domain expertise as skills + agents — Apex, LWC, Schema, Deploy, Architecture.
4. Workflow contracts for build, fix, investigate, review, test, autonomous, docs, quality, ideation, project discovery, and compression.

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Why this exists

Claude Code already has Plan/Explore/general-purpose subagents, native skills, native MCP, hooks, plan mode, /review, /security-review, prompt caching, and tool-use orchestration. What it lacks:

• Memory. Every session starts cold. SiftCoder gives Claude a per-workspace memory daemon that captures, summarises, and lets you query past work.
• Local LLM. API calls are not free. SiftCoder routes summarisation and embeddings through local Ollama by default, falling back to Anthropic only when local is unavailable or quality is insufficient.
• Domain depth. Generic AI is generic. SiftCoder ships skills/agents tuned for Salesforce — the largest enterprise platform without a domain-specific Claude flavour.
• Workflow leverage. Claude Code has strong native primitives; SiftCoder adds stricter contracts, evidence ledgers, memory grounding, and domain-specific rules around those primitives.

Install

Requires Node ≥ 20.

git clone https://github.com/ialameh/sift-coder.git
cd sift-coder
npm install
npm run build

In Claude Code, register the plugin:

# from any project
/plugin install /path/to/siftcoder

Recommended: install Ollama for local-LLM benefits.

brew install ollama && brew services start ollama
ollama pull nomic-embed-text llama3.2:3b
node bin/siftcoder.mjs setup

Quick start

# spawn the memory daemon for your workspace
node bin/siftcoder.mjs start

# verify
node bin/siftcoder.mjs status

Inside Claude Code:

/siftcoder:mem status
/siftcoder:mem drain
/siftcoder:ideate
/siftcoder:sf-deploy validate
/siftcoder:reverse-prompt deep

What ships

Skills (96) organised by family

Each skill is a workflow contract — explicit ordering, evidence gates, output shape, anti-patterns. Auto-loaded by trigger description; also invokable via slash command.

Family	Skills
coding (14)	build, fix, add-feature, investigate, heal, tdd, pair, refactor, optimize, zen, debug, build-fix, perf, test
reasoning (7)	archaeologist, oracle, ghost, duck, dream, fortune, narrator
quality (9)	chaos, fuzz-mind, invariant, empathy, ripple, timewarp, blast-radius, polyglot, comply
review (2)	review, security
knowledge (5)	memory-usage, pattern-learn, pattern-search, knowledge, search
docs (8)	document, update-docs, update-codemaps, codemap, codemap-fast, codemap-diff, codemap-trust, codemap-export
workflow (14)	autonomous, swarm, pause, continue, handoff, checkpoint, session-eval, smart-retry, preview, scope, chroot, agent, focus, organize-project
spec (5)	improve-spec, spec-from-stories, gap-analysis, reverse-spec, feasibility
salesforce (12)	salesforce-apex, salesforce-lwc, salesforce-deploy, salesforce-architecture, salesforce-test, salesforce-agentforce, salesforce-einstein, salesforce-cpq, salesforce-comply, salesforce-flow, salesforce-security, schema-migrate
integrations (4)	api, integrate, migrate, bridge
ux (3)	ideate, surprise-me, reverse-prompt
meta (13)	siftcoder, onboard, prompt, team, sync, monitor, trace, analyze, compression, local-llm-setup, quality-check, budget, wizard

Each skills/<family>/<name>/SKILL.md body documents: method, output shape, hard rules, anti-patterns, when-NOT-to-use, and value-add over native Claude Code.

Agents (15)