constitution

A command for creating or updating a project's constitution from supplied principles. The constitution is a project document that records governing rules and keeps related templates synchronized.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fill in the constitution, propagate approved changes to related templates, and preserve the framework's protected governance section.
Why use it?
It prevents project principles from remaining as placeholders or becoming inconsistent across dependent documents.

Command

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 commands/chappygo-os/atomic-spec/constitution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Chappygo-OS/Atomic-Spec
Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,269 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00021 $0.01269
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00634
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00127

Measured 2d ago against content hash d99ef9d332cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

constitution 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to speckit.constitution — 27 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

templates/commands/constitution.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Outline

You are updating the project constitution at /memory/constitution.md. This file is a TEMPLATE containing placeholder tokens in square brackets (e.g. [PROJECT_NAME], [PRINCIPLE_1_NAME]). Your job is to (a) collect/derive concrete values, (b) fill the template precisely, and (c) propagate any amendments across dependent artifacts.

CRITICAL — Article IX is OFF-LIMITS. The section titled ### Article IX: Prime Directives (Atomic Traceability) and everything under it is hardcoded framework governance from the Atomic Traceability Model. You MUST NOT modify, rewrite, summarize, reformat, or replace any Article IX content. The eight Prime Directives (Directive 1–8) are non-negotiable and invariant across all consumer projects. When processing this file:

  • Preserve Article IX byte-for-byte, including all headings, tables, code fences, and examples.
  • Placeholder replacement applies ONLY to Articles I–VIII and the governance metadata above Article IX.
  • If you detect any bracketed token inside Article IX (e.g. [###-feature-name] in a code example), it is illustrative and MUST be left untouched.
  • If the user explicitly asks you to change Article IX, refuse and direct them to edit memory/constitution.md manually with a note that they are deliberately altering framework governance.

Follow this execution flow:

  1. Load the existing constitution template at /memory/constitution.md.

    • Identify every placeholder token of the form [ALL_CAPS_IDENTIFIER]. IMPORTANT: The user might require less or more principles than the ones used in the template. If a number is specified, respect that - follow the general template. You will update the doc accordingly.
  2. Collect/derive values for placeholders:

    • If user input (conversation) supplies a value, use it.
    • Otherwise infer from existing repo context (README, docs, prior constitution versions if embedded).
    • For governance dates: RATIFICATION_DATE is the original adoption date (if unknown ask or mark TODO), LAST_AMENDED_DATE is today if changes are made, otherwise keep previous.
    • CONSTITUTION_VERSION must increment according to semantic versioning rules:
      • MAJOR: Backward incompatible governance/principle removals or redefinitions.
      • MINOR: New principle/section added or materially expanded guidance.
      • PATCH: Clarifications, wording, typo fixes, non-semantic refinements.
    • If version bump type ambiguous, propose reasoning before finalizing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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 · 90 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A d99ef9d332cc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

constitution is a command published in the GitHub repository Chappygo-OS/Atomic-Spec (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,269 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to speckit.constitution, differing in 27 lines, and is treated as a copy.