init-steering

init-steering is a command for coding agents from mbensch/mb-ai-tools. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,223 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A codebase analysis command that creates a STEERING.md file with required technology, coding, and architecture rules. It also updates AGENTS.md to require reading that file and creates a skill describing the technology stack.

In plain words
What is it for?
Documenting a project's technical rules, updating agent instructions, and creating a technology-stack skill.
Why use it?
It records project rules in one place and tells coding agents to follow them. This helps reduce inconsistent changes across the codebase.

Command

Part of the steering plugin — 3 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/mbensch/mb-ai-tools/init-steering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mbensch/mb-ai-tools

Or install steering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands.

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 init-steering

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/mbensch/mb-ai-tools/init-steering.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/mbensch/mb-ai-tools/init-steering)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/mbensch/mb-ai-tools/init-steering"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/mbensch/mb-ai-tools/init-steering.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,223 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00045 $0.03223
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01612
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00322

Measured 4d ago against content hash ff0004af438b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init-steering 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 4d 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.

plugins/steering/commands/init-steering.md · 299 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 299 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A ff0004af438b

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init-steering is a command published in the GitHub repository mbensch/mb-ai-tools (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,223 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.