AgentHound: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

AgentHound CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from adithyan-ak/AgentHound. It costs 1,136 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repository instruction file for AgentHound, a system that collects and verifies access-related findings for AI-agent infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when maintaining AgentHound, especially changes involving collection, planning, stored JSON artifacts, database ingestion, findings, documentation, or releases.
Why use it?
It gives maintainers the project’s required checks, release rules, and boundaries so changes follow the repository’s operating requirements.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is adithyan-ak/AgentHound's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on AgentHound 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 AgentHound configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to adithyan-ak/AgentHound. 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/adithyan-ak/AgentHound/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adithyan-ak/AgentHound

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,136 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,136 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.01136 $0.01136
Opus 5.5 $0.00454 $0.00454
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00227 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00114 $0.00114

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9296acda9633, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

AgentHound CLAUDE.md 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 1mo 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.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AgentHound maintainer contract

AgentHound provides autonomous offensive collection and access verification for AI agent infrastructure.

  • agenthound is the static foothold-time collector. It scans, plans, verifies, restores, and checkpoints one local JSON artifact.
  • agenthound-server manually ingests artifacts, publishes the Neo4j graph and PostgreSQL finding state, and serves the API and dashboard.

Required checks

Before committing:

make check

Changes spanning collection, planning, artifacts, ingestion, or findings also run make integration. Documentation changes run make docs-check.

Before a release tag, run make prerelease and make docs-check. Release tags are numeric SemVer without a v prefix. The first numeric heading in CHANGELOG.md is the version source of truth; make sync-version updates every live installer, environment, and Docker Compose pin in the README, installer, and operator documentation.

Release from a clean commit already merged into main:

  1. Confirm every PR check is green and Unreleased is empty.
  2. Dispatch the Release workflow from main once to verify the repository-linked private staging packages.
  3. Run make prerelease and make docs-check from the exact main commit.
  4. Create and push an annotated numeric tag, for example git tag -a 1.1.0 -m "AgentHound 1.1.0" followed by git push origin 1.1.0.
  5. Wait for the private candidate to pass, approve release-production, and require release-acceptance and homebrew-acceptance to pass.

Numeric release tags are immutable. Rerun a transient failure against the same commit; if source changes are required, prepare the next patch version instead of moving the tag.

Supported release surfaces are GitHub archives, the installer, GHCR, and Homebrew. Numeric tags are intentionally not Go module versions, so release acceptance must not use go list, go mod download, or go install as distribution checks.

Hard boundaries

  • The collector must not link chi, pgx, neo4j-go-driver, or server/internal packages. scripts/deps-check.sh enforces the boundary.
  • The stripped Linux amd64 collector must remain within the budget enforced by scripts/size-check.sh.
  • Add every collector package and dependency to scripts/collector-allowlist.txt.
  • Allowed dependency licenses are Apache-2.0, MIT, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, ISC, MPL-2.0, Unlicense, and Zlib.
  • TLS verification is enabled by default. Every AgentHound-owned connection uses the shared contact policy through the final dial.
  • The server is single-user and binds to loopback by default. OriginGuard protects browser mutations; callers without an Origin header are inside the local-process trust boundary.
  • PostgreSQL and Neo4j form one storage pair and must be backed up and restored together.
  • Build the UI before the server so server/internal/api/ui/dist contains the files required by go:embed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 1,136 tokens per session scan A 9296acda9633

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AgentHound CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository adithyan-ak/AgentHound (452 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,136 tokens to every session, about $0.0045 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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