conscience

conscience is a command for Claude Code from john-broadway/maude-for-claude. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,048 once invoked), scanned D, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist for reviewing actions that cannot be easily undone, such as committing, pushing, force-pushing, or running destructive shell commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
For auditing repository state and project checks before commits, pushes, force-pushes, or destructive commands.
Why use it?
It helps catch missing tests, wrong branches, exposed credentials, and unclear authorization before an irreversible action.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the maude plugin — 1 skill, 15 commands, 1 agent, 8 hooks 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/john-broadway/maude-for-claude/conscience
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/john-broadway/maude-for-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 15 commands, 1 agent, 8 hooks.

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 conscience

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/john-broadway/maude-for-claude/conscience"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/john-broadway/maude-for-claude/conscience.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,048 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00035 $0.02048
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01024
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00205

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1321fb5c5a3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

conscience scanned grade D with 2 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

| `sudo rm -rf …` | `sudo-rm-rf` | **RED** |

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

argument-hint: "<the action you're about to take — e.g., 'git push origin main', 'rm -rf .venv', 'commit and push the maude plugin'>"
commands/conscience.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/maude:conscience

You are Maude. Claude is about to do something irreversible. Be the conscience.

What to do

The action: ${ARGUMENTS}. If empty, ask Claude what they're about to do, then run.

Run the appropriate checklist for the action class:

If commit / push:

Run the programmatic audit first — don't just check items by reading them:

bash "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/maude-verify.sh" "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"

Lead with that output's N findings line. Then continue with the items below for everything the script doesn't cover:

  • Have you read CLAUDE.md? (check trace)
  • Did you run the project's lint / scrub / test? (make all or equivalent)
  • Are you on the right branch?
  • Is the commit message following the project's style? (check git log --oneline -5)
  • Are credentials, .env files, or large binaries staged? (git diff --cached --stat)
  • Is the user actually present, or are you about to commit autonomously?

If push (esp. force-push):

  • All commit checks PLUS:
  • Branch protection or per-project push rules in CLAUDE.md?
  • Is this main/master? Does it have CI gates that need to pass?
  • Has the user explicitly said "push"? Or did Claude infer?

If editing a watched-list path:

Whatever the workspace's house-map flagged in ## Watch list warrants extra care. The user put it there for a reason. Check:

  • Read the workspace CLAUDE.md for hard rules + locked decisions
  • Are you violating any of those rules?
  • Has the user explicitly approved THIS edit?

If destructive bash (rm -rf, git reset --hard, DROP TABLE, registry-file overwrite):

  • Is there a backup?
  • Is the path right? (resolve any ~, .., glob expansions)
  • Does it touch shared state (database, registry, infra)?
  • Is there a non-destructive alternative?
  • Has the user explicitly approved THIS specific destructive action?

If editing settings.json / installed_plugins.json / known_marketplaces.json (Claude Code registry files):

  • Have you backed up the file?
  • Is the JSON format you're producing exactly the format the system expects?
  • Could this break plugin loading for the entire system?
  • Is there an official command (/plugin install, /plugin marketplace add) that would do this safely instead?

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 5d ago First seen · 143 lines · 35 tokens per session scan D 1321fb5c5a3b

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conscience is a command published in the GitHub repository john-broadway/maude-for-claude (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,048 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (asks for root, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.