codify

A command for phase 05, called codify, in a workspace knowledge-building process. It updates existing agents and skills with lessons and validated information from a project workspace.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read project briefs and validation results, consult the documentation and update the workspace's canonical agent and skill files.
Why use it?
It turns approved project knowledge into reusable instructions, so future agents do not have to rediscover the same information.

Command for Claude Code

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/terrene-foundation/metis/codify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrene-foundation/metis

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,572 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 $0.00025 $0.01572
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00786
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00157

Measured 2d ago against content hash cc19fce69e67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codify 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 2d 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/codify.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workspace Resolution

  1. If $ARGUMENTS specifies a project name, use workspaces/$ARGUMENTS/
  2. Otherwise, use the most recently modified directory under workspaces/ (excluding instructions/)
  3. If no workspace exists, ask the user to create one first
  4. Read all files in workspaces/<project>/briefs/ for user context (this is the user's input surface)

Phase Check

  • Read workspaces/<project>/04-validate/ to confirm validation passed
  • Read docs/ and docs/00-authority/ for knowledge base
  • Output: update existing agents and skills in their canonical locations (e.g., agents/frameworks/, skills/01-core-sdk/, skills/02-dataflow/, etc.)

Execution Model

This phase executes under the autonomous execution model (see rules/autonomous-execution.md). Knowledge extraction and codification are autonomous — agents extract, structure, and validate knowledge without human intervention. The human reviews the codified output at the end (structural gate on what becomes institutional knowledge), but the extraction and synthesis process is fully autonomous.

Workflow

1. Consume learning digest

Before extracting new knowledge, integrate what the learning system has captured:

  1. Read .claude/learning/learning-digest.json — the structured summary of recent observations
  2. Read .claude/learning/learning-codified.json — what was previously codified (avoid re-processing)
  3. Read recent journal entries referenced in the digest (decisions array) — DECISION and DISCOVERY entries contain semantic context
  4. Read .session-notes — latest session accomplishments and outstanding items

Analyze the digest for actionable findings:

  • Corrections → Do any rules or skills need updating to match user preferences? Each correction is a real signal where the user pushed back on an approach.
  • Error patterns → Should any recurring rule violations become new rule sections (DO/DO NOT with examples)?
  • Decisions → Should any architectural decisions from journals become agent or skill knowledge?
  • Accomplishments → Do any completed features need documentation in skills?

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 2d ago First seen · 136 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A cc19fce69e67

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codify is a command published in the GitHub repository terrene-foundation/metis (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,572 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 2026-08-31.