guidelines-review

guidelines-review is a command for Claude Code from oborchers/fractional-cto. It costs 19 tokens per session (606 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository review that finds every CLAUDE.md file and checks code against the project rules written in those files. CLAUDE.md files are instruction documents that can apply to a whole repository or to a particular directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a repository has CLAUDE.md guidance and you need a compliance report covering the relevant files and directory scopes.
Why use it?
It helps catch code that breaks local project conventions, including rules inherited from parent directories. It separates actionable rules from background information before checking files.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the pedantic-coder plugin — 16 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when a repository has CLAUDE.md guidance and you need a compliance report covering the relevant files and directory scopes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/oborchers/fractional-cto/guidelines-review
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/oborchers/fractional-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pedantic-coder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 606 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 $0.00019 $0.00606
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00242
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2bfc4744fbb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guidelines-review 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.

pedantic-coder/commands/guidelines-review.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Scan the repository for CLAUDE.md files and audit code compliance against the project's own documented guidelines.

Follow this process:

  1. Discover all CLAUDE.md files: Use Glob with **/CLAUDE.md to find every CLAUDE.md file in the repository (or the scope provided as argument).

  2. Map the inheritance hierarchy: Order the files from root to deepest nesting. Understand which directories each file's guidelines apply to.

  3. Read and parse each CLAUDE.md: For each file:

    • Read the full content
    • Distinguish enforceable guidelines (naming rules, patterns, conventions, architecture boundaries) from informational content (build commands, project overview, architecture descriptions)
    • Note the scope: what directories and files does this CLAUDE.md govern?
  4. Invoke the guidelines-compliance skill: Use Skill("pedantic-coder:guidelines-compliance") to load the full compliance checking methodology.

  5. For each CLAUDE.md scope, sample and check files:

    • Select 3-5 representative files within each CLAUDE.md's scope
    • For each file, collect ALL applicable guidelines (walk up the ancestor chain)
    • Check the file against every applicable guideline
    • Record violations with the specific CLAUDE.md file and quoted rule
  6. Check for systemic patterns:

    • Are there guidelines that are widely ignored? (rule exists but nobody follows it)
    • Are there guidelines that conflict between levels? (parent says X, child says Y)
    • Are there stale guidelines? (reference patterns, files, or commands that no longer exist)
  7. Report findings in this structure:

    CLAUDE.md Hierarchy

    • List all CLAUDE.md files found with their scope

    Compliance by Scope

    For each CLAUDE.md:

    • Guideline: [quoted rule]
    • Status: Compliant / Partially violated / Widely violated
    • Evidence: file:line references for violations
    • Fix: what to change (in code or in the guideline)

    Conflicts

    • Parent/child guideline contradictions

    Stale Guidelines

    • Rules that reference nonexistent patterns, files, or commands

    Summary

    • Total guidelines found: N
    • Fully compliant: X
    • Violated: Y
    • Stale: Z
    • Verdict: Are the project's own rules being followed?

Focus on substance over style. The goal is to answer: "Does this codebase follow its own rules?" If not, either the code or the rules need to change.

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 · 59 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 2bfc4744fbb7

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guidelines-review is a command published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (32 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 606 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-13.