rfc

rfc is a command for Claude Code from studioKjm/ai-harness-template. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,786 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for managing RFCs, written design documents used to review important technical decisions before implementation. It supports a review path from draft through acceptance, rejection, or replacement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating, listing, reviewing, accepting, rejecting, superseding, and linking RFCs to files or modules.
Why use it?
It creates a written record for changes that affect multiple modules, consumers, security, dependencies, scale, cost, or stakeholders. Smaller fixes can proceed without an RFC.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 .harness/methodologies/rfc-driven/scripts/rfc.py \.

Part of the harness plugin — 44 commands, 11 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/studioKjm/ai-harness-template
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/studiokjm/ai-harness-template/rfc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 commands, 11 agents.

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 rfc

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/studiokjm/ai-harness-template/rfc.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/studiokjm/ai-harness-template/rfc)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/studiokjm/ai-harness-template/rfc"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/studiokjm/ai-harness-template/rfc.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,786 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 5.1 $0.00021 $0.01786
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00893
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00179

Measured 6d ago against content hash b6497f0a2911, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rfc 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 6d 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.

methodologies/rfc-driven/commands/rfc.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/rfc — RFC Lifecycle Management

"Architectural changes need a paper trail. Code changes don't have to wait for a meeting."

When to use

  • Change touches >1 module's design or contract
  • Migration affecting multiple consumers
  • New dependency / framework / language
  • Security-relevant architecture (encryption, auth)
  • Scale/cost decisions ($X/month threshold)
  • Deprecation with stakeholder impact

Not for:

  • Bug fixes
  • Single-feature additions following existing patterns
  • Refactors that don't change interfaces
  • Dependency patch updates

Usage

/rfc new <slug> --title "..." [--authors A1 A2 ...]
/rfc list [--status draft|proposed|accepted|rejected|superseded]
/rfc show <rfc-id>
/rfc propose <rfc-id>             # draft → proposed (validates completeness)
/rfc accept <rfc-id> --decided-by NAME --rationale "..." [--conditions C1 ...]
/rfc reject <rfc-id> --decided-by NAME --rationale "..."
/rfc supersede <rfc-id> --by <new-rfc-id>
/rfc link <rfc-id> --files F1 [F2 ...] [--modules M1 [...]]

For per-PR linking, see /rfc-link.

State machine

[draft] → [proposed] → [accepted] → [superseded]
            ↓             ↑
        [rejected]    (replaced by new RFC)
            ↓
       [draft]            (rollback for revision)
State Meaning Move when
draft Author iterating Author ready for review
proposed Under review Stakeholder decision made
accepted Decision: yes Implementation can begin
rejected Decision: no (terminal — record reason)
superseded Replaced by newer RFC (terminal — links to replacement)

Instructions

Step 1 — Locate the script

.harness/methodologies/rfc-driven/scripts/rfc.py

Step 2 — Create RFC

python3 .harness/methodologies/rfc-driven/scripts/rfc.py \
  new eventbus-replacement \
  --title "Replace in-process event bus with Kafka for cross-service events" \
  --authors jimin

Step 3 — Fill yaml fields (manual)

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 6d ago First seen · 196 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A b6497f0a2911

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rfc is a command published in the GitHub repository studioKjm/ai-harness-template (43 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,786 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.