HERO = Hashing · Edge cases · Rubrics · Overbuild — the four shapes coding agents over-defend in. A paste-in contract that stops them. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Gemini CLI.

The ripgrep of AI context: a zero-dependency C++23 CLI + MCP server for coding agents. Find what you want without reading the repo, then check you built what you meant — blast radius, tests-to-run, quality deltas. Signatures at 74.7% fewer bytes than bodies; every guess labelled, every loss published. Paddle out with a map.