claude

Reference notes about how Claude Code discovers credentials and runs through an agent connection process. They explain terms such as the launcher, running agent process, client connection, and session ID.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand credential lookup, CLI-based execution, session persistence, and the identifiers used by Claude's agent connection path.
Why use it?
It gives developers a shared vocabulary and implementation details when diagnosing Claude Code integrations.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rivet-dev/sandbox-agent/claude
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rivet-dev/sandbox-agent
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,721 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.02721
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01360
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00544
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00272

Measured 2d ago against content hash e80dde5c5d86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

claude scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- The CLI outputs: `--dangerously-skip-permissions cannot be used with root/sudo privileges for security reasons`
research/agents/claude.md · 341 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 341 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Research

Research notes on Claude Code's configuration, credential discovery, and runtime behavior based on agent-jj implementation.

Overview

  • Provider: Anthropic
  • Execution Method: CLI subprocess (claude command)
  • Session Persistence: Session ID (string)
  • SDK: None (spawns CLI directly)

ACP Terminology (Sandbox Agent v1)

Use these terms consistently when discussing Claude's ACP path:

Term Meaning
ACP agent process launcher The command used to start the ACP agent process, commonly an npx launcher script that executes claude-code-acp.
ACP agent process The running ACP agent process spawned by Sandbox Agent from the launcher command.
ACP client The client-visible transport handle identified by X-ACP-Connection-Id; requests and SSE are scoped to this ACP client.

Related IDs:

  • ACP client ID: value of X-ACP-Connection-Id (transport identity).
  • ACP session ID: sessionId returned by session/new (conversation/session identity within ACP).

Credential Discovery

Priority Order

  1. User-configured credentials (passed as ANTHROPIC_API_KEY env var)
  2. Environment variables: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or CLAUDE_API_KEY
  3. Bootstrap extraction from config files
  4. OAuth fallback (Claude CLI handles internally)

Config File Locations

Path Description
~/.claude.json.api API key config (highest priority)
~/.claude.json General config
~/.claude.json.nathan User-specific backup (custom)
~/.claude/.credentials.json OAuth credentials
~/.claude-oauth-credentials.json Docker mount alternative for OAuth

API Key Field Names (checked in order)

{
  "primaryApiKey": "sk-ant-...",
  "apiKey": "sk-ant-...",
  "anthropicApiKey": "sk-ant-...",
  "customApiKey": "sk-ant-..."
}

Keys must start with sk-ant- prefix to be valid.

OAuth Structure

// ~/.claude/.credentials.json
{
  "claudeAiOauth": {
    "accessToken": "...",
    "expiresAt": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 341 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 341 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B e80dde5c5d86

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude is an agent published in the GitHub repository rivet-dev/sandbox-agent (1,555 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,721 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.