oss-guidelines

oss-guidelines is a command for Claude Code from costajohnt/oss-autopilot. It costs 21 tokens per session (868 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for managing stored contribution guidelines for open-source repositories. These guidelines are learned from earlier repository work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list repositories with saved guidelines, then view, edit, or reset the guidelines for a chosen repository.
Why use it?
It lets you inspect or correct saved repository advice without repeating the full learning process.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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 oss-autopilot plugin — 3 skills, 9 commands, 8 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to list repositories with saved guidelines, then view, edit, or reset the guidelines for a chosen repository.

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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 costajohnt/oss-autopilot
Claude Code
/plugin install oss-autopilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oss-autopilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 9 commands, 8 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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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 868 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 $0.00021 $0.00868
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00087

Measured 9d ago against content hash abe9c6eaed24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oss-guidelines 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.

commands/oss-guidelines.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/oss-guidelines [repo]

Surface for the per-repo guidelines machinery (#867 / #1283). Most users land here after the extract-learnings workflow has run at least once and want to read, edit, or reset what was stored — without re-running the full extraction.

Inputs

  • [repo] — optional. owner/repo shorthand. When omitted, this command lists every repo with stored guidelines and asks which one the user wants to operate on.

What it does

Bundle freshness: the steps below prefer the MCP tools (no bundle needed). If you fall back to a cli.bundle.cjs call, first ensure the bundle reflects the installed plugin version — the plugin ships no prebuilt bundle, so a stale one can persist after an update. Run "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/build-cli-if-stale.sh" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}" once before the first bundle call (exit 2 = build failed: stop and surface it). Skip this entirely when using the MCP tools.

  1. Resolve the target repo.

    • If an argument was passed, use it verbatim.
    • Otherwise, enumerate repos with stored guidelines via the mcp__plugin_oss-autopilot_oss-autopilot__guidelines-list tool when the MCP server is available, or cli.bundle.cjs guidelines list --json otherwise. Both return { repos, count, storageMode }. Present the list via AskUserQuestion.
    • If no guidelines exist for any repo, surface a one-line nudge toward extract-learnings and exit.
  2. Render the current guidelines.

    ## Guidelines for {owner}/{repo}
    Stored: {byteSize} bytes, last updated {timestamp}
    
    {markdown content}
    

    Read via mcp__plugin_oss-autopilot_oss-autopilot__guidelines-get when available; fall back to cli.bundle.cjs guidelines view --repo OWNER/REPO --json otherwise.

  3. Offer follow-up actions. Use AskUserQuestion:

    • Re-extract from recent PRs — dispatches the extract-learnings.md workflow scoped to this repo.
    • Edit guidelines — invokes the edit-guidelines.md workflow (load → user edit → store, no extraction step).
    • Reset (delete) — calls cli.bundle.cjs guidelines reset --repo OWNER/REPO after a confirm prompt. Tombstones the entry in the gist (#867 semantics).
    • Done — exit cleanly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 9d ago First seen · 84 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A abe9c6eaed24

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oss-guidelines is a command published in the GitHub repository costajohnt/oss-autopilot (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 868 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.