constitution

A command for maintaining a project's engineering-principles document, which records shared rules for how the project should be built and reviewed. Changes are made as separate, versioned Git commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, revise, or remove engineering principles and to tighten project quality requirements.
Why use it?
It keeps quality, security, testing, and other development standards current instead of leaving them as informal agreements. Later workflow checks can use these principles when reviewing work.

Command for Claude Code

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/marcusgoll/spec-flow/constitution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcusgoll/Spec-Flow

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,823 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 $0.00024 $0.04823
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.02412
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00965
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00482

Measured 2d ago against content hash 835b00af45b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

constitution 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 2d 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/project/constitution.md · 657 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 657 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/constitution — Update Engineering Principles

Current Git Status: !git status --short 2>/dev/null || echo "clean"

Current Branch: !git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null || echo "none"

Principles File Exists: !test -f docs/project/engineering-principles.md && echo "Yes" || echo "No"

Principles File: @docs/project/engineering-principles.md

Recent Constitution Commits: !git log --oneline --grep="constitution:" -5 2>/dev/null || echo "none"

Purpose: Modify quality gates, add/update/remove principles, and maintain governance metadata with version control.

When to use:

  • Add, remove, or revise a principle
  • Tighten quality gates (security, accessibility, performance, tests)
  • Align standards with new evidence or incidents
  • Bump principle document version

Workflow position: Project governance command. Downstream gates (/optimize, /validate, /ship) enforce these principles.

Anti-Hallucination Rules

CRITICAL: Follow these rules to prevent implementation errors.

  1. Never modify the file without reading it first

    • Always Read docs/project/engineering-principles.md before making changes
    • Verify file structure matches canonical template
    • Quote current content when analyzing changes
  2. Verify file existence before proceeding

    • Use Grep to check file exists
    • If not found, instruct user to run /init-project first
    • Don't assume file structure - read and verify
  3. Validate principle structure after changes

    • Check for required headers (## Principles)
    • Verify principle IDs match pattern: ### [ID] Title
    • Ensure all required fields present (Policy, Rationale, Measurable checks, Evidence, Last updated)
  4. Quote arguments exactly

    • Parse $ARGUMENTS precisely without adding interpretation
    • If arguments unclear, show usage examples and ask for clarification
    • Never guess at action types or field values

Read the full file on GitHub · 657 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. 2d ago First seen · 657 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 835b00af45b4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

constitution is a command published in the GitHub repository marcusgoll/Spec-Flow (91 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 4,823 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.