dev-notes-guide

dev-notes-guide is a command for Claude Code from lis186/SourceAtlas. It costs 12 tokens per session (419 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines defines how to organize and name files in a dev-notes directory, including long-term guides, dated work notes, archives, and history updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, naming, locating, archiving, or updating project notes, especially implementation records, analyses, decisions, tests, and experiments.
Why use it?
It keeps development notes predictable and prevents temporary analyses or decisions from becoming a disorganized collection of files.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it when creating, naming, locating, archiving, or updating project notes, especially implementation records, analyses, decisions, tests, and experiments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/lis186/sourceatlas/dev-notes-guide
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lis186/SourceAtlas

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 419 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00012 $0.00419
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00168
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bda20f89a4f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-notes-guide 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 1mo 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.

.claude/commands/dev-notes-guide.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

dev-notes/ Management Guide

File Naming Rules

UPPER_CASE.md (max 5 files)

Only for files that meet ALL criteria:

  1. Updated weekly
  2. Index/navigation purpose
  3. Long-term methodology

Current: README.md, HISTORY.md, KEY_LEARNINGS.md, ROADMAP.md, METHODOLOGY.md Never create new uppercase files without explicit approval.

YYYY-MM-DD-topic-type.md

For everything else:

  • topic: hyphen-separated (e.g., objective-c-support)
  • type: implementation | analysis | decision | test | experiment

Location Rules

if current/last month → dev-notes/YYYY-MM/
elif decision analysis → dev-notes/archives/decisions/
elif methodology deep-dive → dev-notes/archives/lessons/
else → dev-notes/YYYY-MM/ (matching month)

Must-Follow Rules

  1. Never create new UPPER_CASE files
  2. Always use date prefix for new content
  3. Update HISTORY.md immediately after major features
  4. Merge same-day + same-topic content
  5. Move 3+ month old content to archives/

Update Templates

HISTORY.md

### Week N (MM/DD-MM/DD): Topic
- **Feature** (MM/DD): One-line description → [Details](link)

KEY_LEARNINGS.md

### N. Learning Title
**Discovery**: 1 sentence
**Evidence**: 1 sentence
**Application**: 1 sentence
→ [Full analysis](link)

Information Layers

  • Layer 0 (README.md): 10-sec overview
  • Layer 1 (5 core files): 5-min understanding
  • Layer 2 (monthly folders): 30-min details
  • Layer 3 (archives/): Deep dive
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. 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A bda20f89a4f5

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dev-notes-guide is a command published in the GitHub repository lis186/SourceAtlas (48 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 419 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.