rules-eval

rules-eval is a command for Claude Code from athola/claude-night-market. It costs 18 tokens per session (436 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for reviewing Claude Code rule files in .claude/rules/ directories. It checks their YAML settings, file-matching patterns, content quality, naming, and organization.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review rules in a project or plugin, with either a general result or a detailed report for each file.
Why use it?
It helps find configuration errors and unclear or overly broad rules before they cause agents to behave incorrectly.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the abstract plugin — 16 skills, 17 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review rules in a project or plugin, with either a general result or a detailed report for each file.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add athola/claude-night-market
Claude Code
/plugin install abstract

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install abstract, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 17 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 436 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00018 $0.00436
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00218
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00044

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3d31c87e5f6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rules-eval scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 9d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/abstract/commands/rules-eval.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Rules-Eval

Evaluate and validate Claude Code rules in .claude/rules/ directories. Checks YAML frontmatter, glob patterns, content quality, and directory organization.

Invoke Skill(abstract:rules-eval), which carries the scoring, the frontmatter and glob validations and the organization patterns.

When To Use

Use this command when you need to:

  • Validate rule files before deployment
  • Audit frontmatter for YAML errors or Cursor-specific fields
  • Check glob patterns for syntax and specificity issues
  • Assess overall rules organization and naming

When NOT To Use

Avoid this command if:

  • Evaluating skills - use /skills-eval instead
  • Evaluating hooks - use /hooks-eval instead
  • Validating full plugin structure - use /validate-plugin instead

Usage

# Evaluate rules in current project
/rules-eval

# Evaluate specific directory
/rules-eval .claude/rules/

# Detailed analysis with per-file breakdown
/rules-eval --detailed

# Evaluate a plugin's rules
/rules-eval plugins/conserve/.claude/rules/

Implementation

python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/rules_validator.py \
  "${1:-.claude/rules}" \
  ${2:+--detailed}
  • /skills-eval - Skill quality evaluation
  • /hooks-eval - Hook quality evaluation
  • /validate-plugin - Complete plugin structure validation
  • rules-eval skill (skills/rules-eval/SKILL.md) - Detailed evaluation framework
    • modules/frontmatter-validation.md - YAML/frontmatter checks
    • modules/glob-pattern-analysis.md - Glob pattern validation
    • modules/content-quality-metrics.md - Content quality assessment
    • modules/organization-patterns.md - Directory organization
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. 9d ago First seen · 66 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 3d31c87e5f6d

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rules-eval is a command published in the GitHub repository athola/claude-night-market (336 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 436 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.