@agntn/hashes

#️⃣ Forty-six hash algorithms for your terminal, TypeScript and agents. Give it text or bytes, get a digest and the options needed to repeat it.

[!CAUTION] Not audited. This code has never had a security audit. Do not use it in production, with real funds or with sensitive data. It is meant for agents, puzzles and local experiments only. It comes as is, without warranty of any kind, and the authors are not liable for any loss, as the MIT license states. Anything that matters wants an audited library.

Why?

A puzzle asks for SHA-256 twice. Twice over bytes, or over the hex from round one? Congratulations, now you have two answers. This package runs either recipe and gives your agent something better than a confident guess.

Docs and a browser playground: hashes.agntn.dev.

📦 Install

pnpm add @agntn/hashes

Node.js 26 or newer. Local hashing needs no network, API key or config.

🚀 First call

npx @agntn/hashes sha256 "hello world"

b94d27b9934d3e08a52e52d7da7dabfac484efe37a5380ee9088f7ace2efcde9

One input, just the digest on stdout. Ready for a pipe. For the bare hashes commands below, install once with pnpm add -g @agntn/hashes.

Check a digest too:

hashes verify sha256 abc "ungWv48Bz+pBQUDeXa4iI7ADYaOWF3qctBD/YfIAFa0=" -e base64
hashes verify sha256 abc "ungwv48bz+pbqudexa4ii7adyaowf3qctbd/yfiafa0=" -e base64

MATCH sha256 ungWv48Bz+pBQUDeXa4iI7ADYaOWF3qctBD/YfIAFa0=
MISMATCH sha256
  expected ungwv48bz+pbqudexa4ii7adyaowf3qctbd/yfiafa0=
  actual   ungWv48Bz+pBQUDeXa4iI7ADYaOWF3qctBD/YfIAFa0=

Hex ignores case. Base64 doesn't. Same letters, different bytes, and the second command exits with 1. Lowercasing everything isn't cleanup here, it's sabotage.

Commands

Command	What you get	Example
hash	Digest of text or stdin	hashes hash blake3 - < file.bin
hmac	Digest under a key	hashes hmac sha256 "message" "secret"
verify	Match or mismatch, exit 1 on mismatch	hashes verify md5 hello 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592
extend	Length extension of a known digest	hashes extend md5 <digest> --message m --suffix x --secret-length 3
identify	Candidates by prefix or digest length	hashes identify 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592
search	A recipe from your candidate words	hashes search 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592 hello world
algorithms	Registry, filtered by family or category	hashes algorithms -f sha
info	One algorithm and its options	hashes info pbkdf2
mcp	MCP server on stdio	hashes mcp

hash is optional: hashes md5 hello works. Several inputs get a line each. hmac and verify take the key or expected digest last. Use hashes <command> --help for flags, or the CLI guide for encodings, JSON and exit codes.

✨ What you can do

• 🧮 Forty-six algorithms. Modern digests, old formats, checksums and KDFs. Pick one from the table.
• 🔑 HMAC where supported. Twenty-three of them take a key. The others refuse it.
• 🧂 Reproduce a KDF. Random salts and costs come back with the result. Keep them, not just the digest.
• 📥 Hash bytes, not their spelling. Stdin takes files. --input-encoding hex decodes hex before hashing.
• 🔁 Repeat a hash. Choose raw bytes or hex between rounds. Yes, those give different answers.
• 🔎 Investigate a digest. Identify candidates, search word combinations or try length extension. Identification is a guess, not proof.
• ⚡ Use plain TypeScript. The library has no hashing dependencies or node:* imports. Byte functions have their own package entries too.
• 🤖 Give agents the calculator. CLI, library, MCP, AI SDK, Pi and OMP use the same hashing code.

🧠 Library

import { create, digestMatches } from "@agntn/hashes";

const sha256 = create("sha256");
const result = sha256.hash("abc");
console.log(result.digest);
console.log(sha256.hash("message", { key: "secret" }).operation);
console.log(sha256.hash(["hello", "world"]).length);
console.log(digestMatches(create("md5").hash("hello"), "5D41402ABC4B2A76B9719D911017C592"));

ba7816bf8f01cfea414140de5dae2223b00361a396177a9cb410ff61f20015ad
hmac
2
true

Strings are UTF-8. Already have bytes? Pass a Uint8Array. create() takes the exact registry name, while resolveAlgorithm() accepts labels, case and punctuation. Unsupported encodings throw a HashError. A hex string is still text here. Decode it first.

Hashing and byte imports · Verify · KDFs and salts

🗂️ Algorithms

Category	Algorithms	HMAC
cryptographic	sha256, sha384, sha512, sha224, sha512-224, sha512-256, sha512-half, sha3-256, sha3-512, keccak256, blake2b, blake2b-256, blake2b-224, blake2s, blake3, blake256, ripemd160, ripemd320, hash160, hash256, whirlpool, hkdf	sha2, sha3, keccak256, blake2b, blake2s, ripemd160, ripemd320, whirlpool
legacy	md5, md4, md2, ntlm, sha1, sha0, ripemd128, ripemd256, haval, tiger	all but ntlm
non-cryptographic	crc32, crc64, crc24, crc16-xmodem, adler32, xxhash, fnv1a	no
password	scrypt, pbkdf2, evp-bytestokey, argon2id, argon2i, argon2d, bcrypt	no, they take a salt

Categories describe use, families describe lineage. hashes algorithms -f sha includes SHA-0 and SHA-3. That isn't a security recommendation. MD2, MD4, MD5, NTLM, SHA-1, SHA-0 and HAVAL are broken for security. Check hashes info <name> for individual security notes and algorithm pages for details.

🤖 Agents

pi install npm:@agntn/hashes
omp install @agntn/hashes

For an MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hashes": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@agntn/hashes", "mcp"] }
  }
}

Or skip the local install:

claude mcp add --transport http hashes https://hashes.agntn.dev/mcp

Remote inputs pass through a Cloudflare worker. Use public test vectors, never real passwords. Local MCP, Pi, OMP and @agntn/hashes/ai expose seven tools. Batch hashing takes up to 64 inputs per call. No need to make the model ask 64 times.

Tools, arguments and host setup

🚫 What this does not do

This is not password storage for your app. The KDFs reproduce test vectors and puzzle recipes, not your login system.

Need signatures or wallets? @agntn/keys. Encryption? @agntn/ciphers. Other binary encodings? @agntn/encodings.

🧩 Add your own algorithm

Missing a digest? Extend FixedHash and register() your class. HMAC uses BlockHash, key derivation uses Kdf. The custom algorithm guide has working examples, including one backed by node:crypto.

🛠️ Development

pnpm install
pnpm --dir docs install
pnpm dev
pnpm lint
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test
pnpm build

dev stubs dist to run from source. lint builds, then checks lint and formatting. Tests need a real build and the docs dependencies for MCP checks. Adding a built-in? Start with CONTRIBUTING.md.

💛 Thanks

Claude for Open Source and Codex for Open Source give maintainers free access. That helps this package happen. Thanks for that <3

📄 License

MIT