conmon-guide

conmon-guide is a command for coding agents from mlunato47/claude-grc-plugin. It costs 5 tokens per session (577 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A topic-based guide to continuous monitoring, which means regularly checking whether a system still meets security and compliance requirements. It covers areas such as monthly and annual work, vulnerability scanning, metrics, tools, and POA&M tracking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan monitoring schedules, manage a POA&M (a list of planned fixes and improvements), choose monitoring tools, define metrics, or understand the full monitoring lifecycle.
Why use it?
It turns a broad ongoing compliance responsibility into specific activities and reference material.

Command

Part of the grc plugin — 1 skill, 24 commands, 1 agent 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/mlunato47/claude-grc-plugin/conmon-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mlunato47/claude-grc-plugin

Or install grc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 24 commands, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 5 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 577 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 $0.00005 $0.00577
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00058

Measured 5d ago against content hash a58a5e35de20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conmon-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

grc/commands/conmon-guide.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/grc:conmon-guide

Continuous monitoring guidance by topic.

Usage

/grc:conmon-guide [topic]

Arguments

  • topic: The ConMon topic area. Accepts:
    • monthly — Monthly deliverables and activities
    • annual — Annual deliverables and activities
    • poam — POA&M management and lifecycle
    • scanning — Vulnerability scanning requirements and processes
    • metrics — ConMon metrics and reporting
    • lifecycle — Full ISCM lifecycle overview
    • tooling — Automated tooling categories and requirements

Examples

/grc:conmon-guide monthly
/grc:conmon-guide poam
/grc:conmon-guide scanning
/grc:conmon-guide lifecycle

Behavior

When invoked:

  1. Identify the topic from the argument.

  2. Read the appropriate reference file(s):

    • monthlyconmon/monthly-deliverables.md
    • annualconmon/annual-deliverables.md
    • poamconmon/poam-management.md
    • scanningconmon/automated-tooling.md + conmon/monthly-deliverables.md
    • metricsconmon/iscm-lifecycle.md + conmon/monthly-deliverables.md
    • lifecycleconmon/iscm-lifecycle.md
    • toolingtooling/grc-tooling-categories.md + conmon/automated-tooling.md
  3. Present guidance structured by:

    • What activities are required
    • Who is responsible (roles)
    • When / how frequently
    • What deliverables are produced
    • Framework-specific requirements (FedRAMP, FISMA)
    • Common pitfalls and best practices
    • Automation opportunities
  4. If no topic provided, show a summary of all ConMon areas with brief descriptions and ask which to dive into.

Output Format

## Continuous Monitoring: [Topic]

### Overview
[Brief description of this ConMon area]

### Activities
| Activity | Frequency | Responsible Role | Deliverable |
|----------|-----------|-----------------|-------------|

### Requirements
[Framework-specific requirements — FedRAMP, FISMA, etc.]

### Best Practices
- [Practice 1]
- [Practice 2]

### Common Pitfalls
- [Pitfall 1]
- [Pitfall 2]

### Automation Opportunities
- [Opportunity 1]
- [Opportunity 2]

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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 · 88 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A a58a5e35de20

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conmon-guide is a command published in the GitHub repository mlunato47/claude-grc-plugin (181 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 577 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.