identity

A command for checking a project's canonical identity: its title, tagline, and optional pitch. It compares that shared description with registered places such as the README and package manifest.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view the canonical identity, see which files match or drift, and print proposed corrections without changing files.
Why use it?
It exposes when different project surfaces describe the same project inconsistently or stop reflecting its official positioning.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/intentdriven/abcd/identity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intentdriven/abcd
Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,066 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 $0.00061 $0.01066
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00533
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00107

Measured yesterday against content hash d30a2b90c803, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

identity 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.

commands/identity.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/abcd:identity repo positioning

A project's positioning fragments silently: the README strapline, the package or plugin manifest description, and the conventions file's opening line are each edited at different moments, until three surfaces tell three stories. This command shows the one canonical identity block the repo records, and which surfaces still say it.

Bare — what this repo says about itself

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/abcd" identity --json

emits { "block": …, "severity": …, "surfaces": [ … ] }:

  • block — the canonical title, tagline, and optional pitch, plus the file and line they are recorded at.
  • severity — the family's weight, warn (the default) or blocker.
  • surfaces — one entry per registered surface: its id, the file and line checked, and a status of ok, drifted, absent (no such file in this repo — not a fault), or unlocatable (the file is there but the locator matches nothing, so drift would go unseen). A drifted entry carries found (the exact text the surface says), missing (which block fields it no longer carries), and canonical (what the block says it should).

Report the block first, then any surface that is not ok, naming the file, the line, what it says, and what the block says. It exits 0 even when it reports drift: this form is a status render, and the gate is abcd lint.

render — the proposed correction

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/abcd" identity render

prints a unified diff per drifted surface. It writes nothing, and no flag makes it: adopting a proposal is the maintainer's move. Show the diff, then ask whether to apply it. If the maintainer would rather change what the project says than what its surfaces say, the fix is an edit to the identity block, after which this same command chases the surfaces.

init — record the block

Run this only as part of onboarding a repo, and only after the interview below.

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/abcd" identity init --title "…" --tagline "…" [--pitch "…"] [--file <path>] [--heading <text>]

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. yesterday First seen · 91 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A d30a2b90c803

Subscribe to this mod's changes

identity is a command published in the GitHub repository intentdriven/abcd (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,066 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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