claudemd-rules

claudemd-rules is a command for coding agents from sdsrss/claudemd. It costs 67 tokens per session (629 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that configures claudemd's status line in Claude Code, showing the user, machine, path, branch, model, context use, and quota use. It can also check, refresh, or remove that configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add a status line on a fresh setup, inspect its current ownership, force takeover when requested, or remove it and restore a saved command.
Why use it?
It puts useful session and usage information in one visible line, while detecting existing status-line owners before making changes.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the claudemd plugin — 16 commands, 6 hooks 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/sdsrss/claudemd/claudemd-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sdsrss/claudemd

Or install claudemd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 commands, 6 hooks.

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Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 629 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 $0.00067 $0.00629
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00063

Measured 4d ago against content hash 957e11eaa104, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claudemd-rules 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.

commands/claudemd-rules.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Default window is 30 days (per §0.1 v6.11.15 — lowered from 90d because the 90d gate was structurally unreachable under typical rule-hits log retention; with 30d the audit can actually produce demote candidates instead of always reporting insufficientData).

$ARGS parsing: split $ARGS into a numeric day-count and a --verbose agent-presentation flag (NOT a script flag — the script ignores it):

$ARGS value CLAUDEMD_RULES_DAYS env Agent output
(empty) unset (script uses default 30) summary only
90 90 summary only
--verbose unset summary + full rules array
90 --verbose 90 summary + full rules array

Passing --verbose (or any non-numeric token) directly to CLAUDEMD_RULES_DAYS would crash the script with --days requires a positive integer (got '--verbose') — always strip the flag before setting env.

Run: CLAUDEMD_RULES_DAYS=<numeric-from-$ARGS-or-30> node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/hard-rules-audit.js

The JSON contains:

Field Meaning
byScope core vs extended HARD-rule counts (§13.1 size budget cross-check)
byEnforcement hook / self / external / both — which rules are mechanically gated vs agent self-discipline
byConfidence high / medium / low — author's pre-data assessment of rule reliability
demoteCandidates hook-enforced rules with 0 hits in window — §13.1 demotion review queue
staleReviews rules whose last_demote_review is null, unparseable, or older than the §13.1 review cadence (28d, per OPERATOR.md) — operator's demote-review queue. Independent of --days, which only sets the hit-counting window.
rules per-rule rows with hits: {total, deny, bypass, warn} (null for self/external — agent text not yet captured; R-N8 transcript scan is the fix path)

Format: surface byEnforcement + byConfidence summary first, then list demoteCandidates and staleReviews as action items. Suppress full rules array unless $ARGS contained --verbose (per the parsing table above).

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 · 33 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 957e11eaa104

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claudemd-rules is a command published in the GitHub repository sdsrss/claudemd (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 629 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.