create-steering-documents

create-steering-documents is a command for Claude Code from jasonkneen/kiro. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for creating project guidance documents based on the type and requirements of a software project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create documents covering areas such as project standards, Git workflow, development setup, frontend or backend practices, APIs, databases, and security.
Why use it?
It turns project details into written standards and instructions that help keep development consistent.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the kiro plugin — 8 skills, 2 commands shipped together

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/jasonkneen/kiro/create-steering-documents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jasonkneen/kiro

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kiro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,274 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01274
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00637
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00127

Measured 6d ago against content hash bce9ea254f5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-steering-documents 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 6d 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/create-steering-documents.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Steering Documents

Create comprehensive steering documents for a development project based on the project type and requirements.

Usage

Create steering documents for [project description]

Examples

  • Create steering documents for a React TypeScript e-commerce application
  • Create steering documents for a Python Django REST API with PostgreSQL
  • Create steering documents for a Node.js microservices architecture
  • Create steering documents for a Vue.js component library

Process

You are an expert at creating project steering documents that provide contextual guidance for development work. Follow this systematic approach:

1. Project Analysis

First, analyze the project requirements and determine which steering documents are needed:

For Frontend Projects (React, Vue, Angular):

  • Include: project-standards.md, git-workflow.md, frontend-standards.md, development-environment.md
  • Consider: component-library.md, testing-strategy.md

For Backend/API Projects (Node.js, Python, Java):

  • Include: project-standards.md, git-workflow.md, api-design.md, development-environment.md
  • Consider: database-standards.md, security-guidelines.md

For Full-Stack Projects:

  • Include: All core documents plus technology-specific ones
  • Consider: deployment-standards.md, monitoring-guidelines.md

For Library/Package Projects:

  • Include: project-standards.md, git-workflow.md, documentation-standards.md
  • Consider: versioning-strategy.md, publishing-guidelines.md

2. Document Creation Strategy

Create steering documents using these templates and guidelines:

Core Documents (Always Create)

project-standards.md - #[[file:.kiro/steering/project-standards.md]]

  • Adapt code quality standards to project language/framework
  • Customize testing requirements based on project complexity
  • Include project-specific documentation needs
  • Set security practices relevant to the domain

git-workflow.md - #[[file:.kiro/steering/git-workflow.md]]

  • Adjust branch naming for team size and release strategy
  • Customize commit message format for project needs
  • Set appropriate review requirements
  • Define merge strategies

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 6d ago First seen · 158 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A bce9ea254f5f

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create-steering-documents is a command published in the GitHub repository jasonkneen/kiro (746 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,274 tokens. 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.