thepopebot: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/popebot-support.md

popebot-support is a command for Claude Code from stephengpope/thepopebot. It costs 12 tokens per session (350 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command guide for redirecting GitHub issues that ask for support to the project's community, while keeping the issue queue for bugs and feature requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a GitHub issue number when handling a support request. It fetches the author's username, posts a tailored community link and troubleshooting checklist, then closes the issue.
Why use it?
It gives support requests a more suitable place and explains what information is needed if the problem is actually a bug. It also ensures the issue is closed with the correct reason after the response is posted.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is stephengpope/thepopebot's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on thepopebot itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything thepopebot configures →

About the project

The Pope Bot is an app for configuring an autonomous AI agent that can chat, run coding work, and operate continuously through connected language models and coding agents. People use it for questions, code changes, background development jobs, and live browser-based coding sessions. Its catalogue add-ons extend the bot with commands, skills, and operating instructions.

stephengpope/thepopebot · 1,859 stars · on GitHub · skool.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to stephengpope/thepopebot. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stephengpope/thepopebot/main/.claude/commands/popebot-support.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stephengpope/thepopebot

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 350 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 $0.00012 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00035

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1b457542801c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

popebot-support 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 10d 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/popebot-support.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Redirect a GitHub issue that is a support request (not a bug or feature request) to the community. Post a comment and close the issue.

The issue number is: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1 — Fetch the issue author

Run gh issue view $ARGUMENTS --json author --jq .author.login to get the author's username.

Step 2 — Post a redirect comment

Use gh issue comment $ARGUMENTS --body "<message>" to post the following comment, replacing {author} with the username from Step 1:

@{author} thanks for submitting and contributing your time to the project! We can only support bugs or feature requests in the issue queue.

For support, please join the community — we'd love to help you there:
👉 https://www.skool.com/ai-architects

If you believe this is a bug, please feel free to open a new issue and include:
1. **thepopebot version** (`npm list thepopebot`)
2. **Platform** (macOS, Linux, Windows)
3. **What happened** vs **what you expected**
4. **Steps to reproduce**

Much respect 🫡

Step 3 — Close the issue

Run gh issue close $ARGUMENTS --reason "not planned" to close it.

Important

  • Always fetch the issue first to get the real author username — never guess.
  • Post the comment before closing so the author gets notified.
  • If any gh command fails, stop and report the error to the user.
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. 10d ago First seen · 42 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 1b457542801c

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popebot-support is a command published in the GitHub repository stephengpope/thepopebot (1,859 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 350 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.