advance

advance is a command for Claude Code from Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes. It costs 9 tokens per session (188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for safely taking ownership of bead tasks, where beads are tracked units of work, while coordinating with other agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find ready tasks, claim related work, reserve files, follow a test-first workflow, run security checks, and escalate when progress stalls.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicate work, missed dependencies, unreserved files, and unfinished handoffs.

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/mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes/advance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 188 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 $0.00009 $0.00188
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00094
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00019

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8d6b0c8f6f40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

advance 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 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.

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/advance.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

/advance

Run the advance skill to manage the full bead lifecycle.

Focus: $ARGUMENTS

Execute the direct protocol from .claude/skills/advance/SKILL.md:

  1. Close out previous work (if any) — tests, ubs, commit, announce
  2. Discover available tasks (bv --robot-triage, bd ready)
  3. Verify no conflicts (file reservations, inbox, dependencies)
  4. Claim task + all sub-beads + reserve files + announce [CLAIMED]
  5. Get context from memory (cm context)
  6. Work using TDD-first (tests before implementation)
  7. Security gate (ubs --staged before every commit)
  8. Max 3 iterations — stop, spike, escalate if stuck
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 · 21 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 8d6b0c8f6f40

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advance is a command published in the GitHub repository Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes (44 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 188 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.