steering

steering is a command for coding agents from gotalab/cc-sdd. It costs 14 tokens per session (435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that creates or updates persistent project knowledge in a steering directory. It can bootstrap core files such as product, technology, and structure documents, or synchronise existing guidance with the codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up project guidance in a new codebase or refresh that guidance when the implementation changes.
Why use it?
It gives future coding sessions a shared reference for the project's purpose, tools, and organisation.

Command

About the project

cc-sdd is a spec-driven development workflow for coding agents: it turns approved software specifications into requirements, designs, task plans, and extended autonomous implementation. Developers use it across several AI coding agents, with independent review and task-level continuation for long-running work. The catalogue entries provide commands, skills, agents, and instructions for using this workflow.

gotalab/cc-sdd · 3,646 stars · on GitHub

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/gotalab/cc-sdd/steering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for steering

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gotalab/cc-sdd/steering.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/gotalab/cc-sdd/steering)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/gotalab/cc-sdd/steering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/gotalab/cc-sdd/steering.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 435 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 $0.00014 $0.00435
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00044

Measured 5d ago against content hash 350b5c2ce0cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

steering 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 5d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • steering — 92% identical, 16 lines differ
tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/claude-code-agent/commands/steering.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Kiro Steering Management

Mode Detection

Perform detection before invoking Subagent:

Check {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/ status:

  • Bootstrap Mode: Empty OR missing core files (product.md, tech.md, structure.md)
  • Sync Mode: All core files exist

Use Glob to check for existing steering files.

Invoke Subagent

Delegate steering management to steering-agent:

Use the Task tool to invoke the Subagent with file path patterns:

Task(
  subagent_type="steering-agent",
  description="Manage steering files",
  prompt="""
Mode: {bootstrap or sync based on detection}

File patterns to read:
- {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/*.md (if sync mode)
- {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/steering/*.md
- {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/rules/steering-principles.md

JIT Strategy: Fetch codebase files when needed, not upfront
"""
)

Display Result

Show Subagent summary to user:

Bootstrap:

  • Generated steering files: product.md, tech.md, structure.md
  • Review and approve as Source of Truth

Sync:

  • Updated steering files
  • Code drift warnings
  • Recommendations for custom steering

Notes

  • All {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/*.md loaded as project memory
  • Templates and principles are external for customization
  • Focus on patterns, not catalogs
  • "Golden Rule": New code following patterns shouldn't require steering updates
  • Avoid documenting agent-specific tooling directories (e.g. .cursor/, .gemini/, .claude/)
  • {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/ content should NOT be documented in steering files (settings are metadata, not project knowledge)
  • Light references to {{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/ and {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/ are acceptable; avoid other .kiro/ directories
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. 5d ago First seen · 63 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 350b5c2ce0cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

steering is a command published in the GitHub repository gotalab/cc-sdd (3,646 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 435 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.