axel-plugin

An XML-based language and development environment for defining and testing structured AI behaviours in Claude Code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create and test structured AI behaviour components, while enforcing document references and comment formatting.
Why use it?
It provides rules for keeping generated documents consistent, such as avoiding copied content and using clear XML comments.

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/apiksdev/axel-core/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apiksdev/axel-core
Per session 467 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 467 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 $0.00467 $0.00467
Opus 5 $0.00234 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00093 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00047 $0.00047

Measured yesterday against content hash a7449569cd65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

axel-plugin 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 yesterday.

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 · 60 lines

What it actually says

AXEL Plugin

<document type="project">

  <enforcement>
    <![CDATA[
    ⛔ CONTENT DUPLICATION RULES
    - ❌ NEVER copy content from referenced documents into new documents
    - Referenced documents are already loaded via context or on-demand loading
    - New documents should only contain unique, non-duplicated information
    - Reference existing content via <read src=".."/> in <documents> block
    - If content exists elsewhere → reference it, do not duplicate it

    ⛔ XML COMMENT FORMAT RULES
    - ❌ NEVER use multi-line decorative comments
    - ❌ NEVER use box-style comments with separator lines (====, ----, ****)
    - ❌ NEVER use comments like: <!-- ========== SECTION ========== -->
    - ✅ ALWAYS use single-line format: <!-- stage_id: Description -->
    - Comment must be placed directly before the element it describes
    ]]>
  </enforcement>

  <project name="axel-plugin" version="1.0.1">
    <description>
       AXEL (AI XML Execution Language) development environment for creating and testing
      structured AI behavior components. AXEL is an XML-based DSL plugin for Claude Code
      that addresses inconsistent AI behavior through enforceable instructions that persist
      across sessions. This project serves as the development workspace for building AXEL
      components including Skills (specialized AI expertise), Agents (autonomous task executors),
      Workflows (multi-step processes), Commands (slash command definitions), Todos (task management),
      and Memory systems (cross-session context persistence).
    </description>
    <stack>
      - language: XML, Markdown, YAML
      - platform: Claude Code
      - type: DSL (Domain-Specific Language)
    </stack>
  </project>
  
  <locale default="en">
    - code: en
    - docs: en
    - communication: tr
    - commits: en
    - todos: tr
  </locale>
  
  <understanding/>
  
</document>
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. yesterday First seen · 60 lines · 467 tokens per session scan A a7449569cd65

Subscribe to this mod's changes

axel-plugin is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository apiksdev/axel-core (7 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 467 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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.

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