localize-project

A command that adds persistent project documentation for a repository, including its specification, architecture decisions, session history, and team roster. It uses the existing global Understudy team rather than copying agent files into the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up project-level tracking with the `understudy --docs-only --yes` command. For full per-project agent customization, use `understudy --here` instead.
Why use it?
It gives the project memory that survives across sessions, so decisions and working context do not have to be reconstructed each time.

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/erniker/understudy/localize-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/erniker/understudy
Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 285 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00028 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash 366bb4ac789e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

localize-project 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 yesterday.

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.

templates/global/commands/localize-project.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

The user wants this repository to have persistent, spec-driven memory instead of relying only on the machine-wide global team's session-by-session context.

Run the following from the repository root and report what it created:

understudy --docs-only --yes

This creates docs/spec.md, docs/decisions.md, docs/session-log.md, docs/team-roster.md and a project-level understudy.yaml — real spec/ADR/ session-log tracking for this specific repo. It does not deploy or duplicate any agent files: the team (Architect, Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Security, QA, etc.) keeps coming from the global install.

If the user instead wants full per-project customization (different models per role, apply_to scoping tailored to this repo's stack, project-specific instructions instead of the shared global ones), tell them to run understudy --here instead — it deploys the full per-project agent set on top of whatever is already here, never removing anything.

If the understudy command is not on PATH, tell the user how to install it (the one-liner in the project README) instead of failing silently.

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. yesterday First seen · 28 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 366bb4ac789e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

localize-project is a command published in the GitHub repository erniker/understudy (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 285 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 2026-08-31.