ade-workflow CLAUDE.md

ade-workflow CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from alexsds/ade-workflow. It costs 666 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for Claude Code plugins in the ADE workflow. ADE means agent-driven engineering: using separate planning, building, and evaluation roles for longer software projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand or maintain an ADE plugin, including its agents, commands, skills, hooks, evaluation materials, and configuration files.
Why use it?
It gives the plugin a shared description of its structure and working principles, so its agents and commands can follow the same organization.

Instructions file

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside the plugin that ships it — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed.

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/alexsds/ade-workflow/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexsds/ade-workflow

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 666 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 666 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00666 $0.00666
Opus 5 $0.00333 $0.00333
Sonnet 5 $0.00133 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00067 $0.00067

Measured 3d ago against content hash fe730ab19bd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ade-workflow CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `testing-tools/playwright.md` — Browser-based UI testing (Playwright MCP, fallback to curl)
CLAUDE.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ADE — Agent-Driven Engineering

What This Is

A Claude Code plugin implementing Anthropic's 3-agent harness pattern (Planner, Generator, Evaluator) for long-running app development. Based on research from https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/harness-design-long-running-apps

Architecture

Skills are the source of truth for methodology. Agents are thin execution shells that reference skills. Commands are orchestration entry points.

  • skills/ — methodology, knowledge, the "why" and "how" (single source of truth)
  • agents/ — execution shells that read skills for guidance
  • commands/ — user-facing entry points that invoke agents

Development

This is a Claude Code plugin. Structure follows plugin-dev conventions:

  • .claude-plugin/plugin.json — manifest
  • agents/ — agent definitions (auto-discovered)
  • commands/ — slash commands (auto-discovered)
  • skills/ — skill directories with SKILL.md (auto-discovered)
  • hooks/ — event hooks
  • scripts/ — utility scripts
  • rubrics/ — default evaluation rubrics (referenced by evaluator skill)
  • testing-tools/ — default testing tool configs (referenced by evaluator skill)
  • .mcp.json — Playwright MCP for browser-based evaluation

Key Principles

  • Commands are instructions FOR Claude, not messages TO users
  • Agent descriptions need <example> blocks for reliable triggering
  • Use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} for all internal paths, never hardcode
  • Rubrics and testing-tools are pluggable — defaults in plugin, overrides in .ade/
  • Planner = subagent (interactive, one-shot). Generator + Evaluator = agent team (SendMessage)
  • Skills hold the methodology, agents reference them — one place to update

Commit Style

Use conventional commits: feat:, fix:, docs:, chore:. Single-line messages.

Commands

scripts/init-project.sh          # Initialize .ade/ in target project
scripts/validate-rubric.sh <f>   # Validate rubric has required sections
scripts/validate-testing-tool.sh <f>  # Validate testing tool definition

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 3d ago First seen · 69 lines · 666 tokens per session scan A fe730ab19bd3

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ade-workflow CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alexsds/ade-workflow (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 666 tokens to every session, about $0.0033 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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