discover-standards

discover-standards is a command for Claude Code from peerjakobsen/smartspender. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,878 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase analysis command that finds unwritten team practices and records them as short development standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document standards for areas such as APIs, databases, testing, naming, or frontend structure.
Why use it?
It reduces the need for an agent or new developer to infer conventions from scattered files and past code.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the smartspender plugin — 13 skills, 19 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to document standards for areas such as APIs, databases, testing, naming, or frontend structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/peerjakobsen/smartspender/discover-standards
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/peerjakobsen/smartspender

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install smartspender, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 19 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 discover-standards

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for discover-standards

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,878 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 $0.00000 $0.01878
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00939
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00188

Measured 8d ago against content hash a3218bba20d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discover-standards 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 8d 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/agent-os/discover-standards.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Discover Standards

Extract tribal knowledge from your codebase into concise, documented standards.

Important Guidelines

  • Always use AskUserQuestion tool when asking the user anything
  • Write concise standards — Use minimal words. Standards must be scannable by AI agents without bloating context windows.
  • Offer suggestions — Present options the user can confirm, choose between, or correct. Don't make them think harder than necessary.

Process

Step 1: Determine Focus Area

Check if the user specified an area when running this command. If they did, skip to Step 2.

If no area was specified:

  1. Analyze the codebase structure (folders, file types, patterns)
  2. Identify 3-5 major areas. Examples:
    • Frontend areas: UI components, styling/CSS, state management, forms, routing
    • Backend areas: API routes, database/models, authentication, background jobs
    • Cross-cutting: Error handling, validation, testing, naming conventions, file structure
  3. Use AskUserQuestion to present the areas:
I've identified these areas in your codebase:

1. **API Routes** (src/api/) — Request handling, response formats
2. **Database** (src/models/, src/db/) — Models, queries, migrations
3. **React Components** (src/components/) — UI patterns, props, state
4. **Authentication** (src/auth/) — Login, sessions, permissions

Which area should we focus on for discovering standards? (Pick one, or suggest a different area)

Wait for user response before proceeding.

Step 2: Analyze & Present Findings

Once an area is determined:

  1. Read key files in that area (5-10 representative files)

  2. Look for patterns that are:

    • Unusual or unconventional — Not standard framework/library patterns
    • Opinionated — Specific choices that could have gone differently
    • Tribal — Things a new developer wouldn't know without being told
    • Consistent — Patterns repeated across multiple files
  3. Use AskUserQuestion to present findings and let user select:

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. 8d ago First seen · 262 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a3218bba20d1

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discover-standards is a command published in the GitHub repository peerjakobsen/smartspender (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,878 tokens. 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.