ai-dispatch CLAUDE.md

A set of project instructions for developing, installing, releasing, and maintaining the ai-dispatch command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a reference when installing ai-dispatch, signing its binary on macOS, preparing releases, running release dry-runs, and maintaining official guides.
Why use it?
It prevents contributors from using release steps that the project considers invalid or unsafe, such as manually creating tags or changing versions.

Instructions file

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 instructions/agent-tools-org/ai-dispatch/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent-tools-org/ai-dispatch
Per session 4,226 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,226 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.04226 $0.04226
Opus 5 $0.02113 $0.02113
Sonnet 5 $0.00845 $0.00845
Haiku 4.5 $0.00423 $0.00423

Measured 2d ago against content hash 24a16d1a9d6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-dispatch 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 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.md · 375 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 375 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ai-dispatch (aid)

Install

  • NEVER cp binary to /opt/homebrew/bin/ — macOS provenance xattr blocks execution
  • /opt/homebrew/bin/aid is a symlink to ~/.cargo/bin/aid
  • Install command (MUST re-sign after copy — sandbox provenance blocks execution):
    cp "$CARGO_TARGET_DIR/release/aid" ~/.cargo/bin/aid && codesign --force --sign - ~/.cargo/bin/aid
    

Release

Release must go through scripts/release.sh. Do not manually bump Cargo.toml, edit the top release entry in CHANGELOG.md, create the release commit, create the release tag, or push the release branch/tag by hand.

Release flow requirements:

  • Start from a clean git worktree. Commit or stash local edits before running the release script.
  • Prepare a Markdown notes file with one - bullet per shipped change.
  • Run scripts/release.sh --dry-run <version> <notes-file> first and review the planned commit/tag/push.
  • Run scripts/release.sh <version> <notes-file> for the actual release.
  • Treat any direct git tag, manual version bump, or manual changelog-only release edit as an invalid release flow.
cat > /tmp/aid-release-notes.md <<'EOF'
- Short release summary
- Additional shipped change
EOF

scripts/release.sh --dry-run 8.75.0 /tmp/aid-release-notes.md
scripts/release.sh 8.75.0 /tmp/aid-release-notes.md

Official Guide Maintenance

default-skills/aid-guide/ is the release-managed, authoritative AID operating guide. Any change to a public command, flag, lifecycle transition, safety invariant, configuration key, or recommended workflow must update the relevant guide reference in the same commit. Keep references/command-index.md complete. Run:

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-creator/scripts/quick_validate.py \
  default-skills/aid-guide
cargo test --test aid_guide_e2e --test init_e2e

Run

Dispatch a task to an AI agent. Core command — most other features build on this.

aid run codex "Add unit tests" --verify              # with auto-verify
aid run gemini "Research topic" -o notes.md           # research with output file
aid run codex "Refactor" -w feat/refactor --bg        # background + worktree
aid advise "implement feature" --difficulty moderate --budget standard --urgency normal --rigor standard

Read the full file on GitHub · 375 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 · 375 lines · 4,226 tokens per session scan A 24a16d1a9d6f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-dispatch CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository agent-tools-org/ai-dispatch (11 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,226 tokens to every session, about $0.0211 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.

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