abx-dl CLAUDE.md

abx-dl CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from ArchiveBox/abx-dl. It costs 547 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Development instructions for abx-dl, a command-line tool whose plugins and snapshot hooks are tested through real command-line, network, filesystem, subprocess, and Docker paths. The guide also describes its setup and release checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up the project with uv, inspect the wget plugin, run repository and documentation tests, perform real crawls, and verify Docker images on supported architectures.
Why use it?
It tells an agent how to inspect the installed plugin system and verify behavior without replacing real integrations with fake test substitutes.

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/archivebox/abx-dl/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArchiveBox/abx-dl

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Per session 547 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 547 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 $0.00547 $0.00547
Opus 5 $0.00273 $0.00273
Sonnet 5 $0.00109 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00055 $0.00055

Measured 5d ago against content hash 22d3f89a0a7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

abx-dl 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 5d 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.

plugin_info="$(uv run --no-sync --no-sources abx-dl plugins wget)"
CLAUDE.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Instructions for abx-dl

Use AGENTS.md as the canonical repository guide. Keep this checkout on main, use uv for Python commands, and exercise real CLI, plugin, subprocess, network, and filesystem paths in tests. Do not add skips, xfails, retries, fake hooks, fake binaries, fake buses, or fallback binary resolution.

Development setup

set -Eeuo pipefail
uv sync --locked --dev --no-sources
help_output="$(uv run --no-sync --no-sources abx-dl --help)"
grep -q 'Usage:' <<<"$help_output"

Inspect the installed plugin surface

set -Eeuo pipefail
plugin_info="$(uv run --no-sync --no-sources abx-dl plugins wget)"
grep -q 'WGET_BINARY=wget' <<<"$plugin_info"
grep -q 'on_Snapshot__35_wget' <<<"$plugin_info"

Verification

The normal CI workflow assigns every repository test file exactly once across Linux, macOS, and every supported Python minor version. It also runs every non-Docker documentation snippet and a real crawl across every Snapshot hook from the pinned abx-plugins release. The Docker workflow builds and tests both amd64 and arm64 images and runs every snippet marked docker_required.

Run the repository's complete static verification before publishing changes:

set -Eeuo pipefail
uv run --no-sync --no-sources prek run --all-files

Releases

Releases are automatic from main. Bump the version and its lockfile, commit, and push. The release workflow waits for the exact commit's test workflow, creates the matching GitHub release and tag, waits for the exact Docker build, and publishes the package through PyPI trusted publishing. Do not create or push tags locally.

Architecture

  • Plugin discovery comes from the installed abx-plugins package or the explicit ABX_PLUGINS_DIR override.
  • Required binaries are emitted as BinaryRequestEvent records and resolved only by abxpkg; host binaries are considered before managed providers.
  • Resolved host and managed binaries are projected into ABXPKG_LIB_DIR/env/bin. ABXPKG_LIB_DIR/bin is only a human convenience surface and must never be used programmatically.
  • Crawl setup and snapshot hooks run through the unified event state machine. Chrome readiness uses its plugin-owned file mechanism rather than a generic bus-level readiness event.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 5d ago First seen · 62 lines · 547 tokens per session scan A 22d3f89a0a7b

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abx-dl CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ArchiveBox/abx-dl (141 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 547 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 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 2026-08-30.