model-ledger CLAUDE.md

A set of Claude Code instructions for the model-ledger project, covering its architecture, development commands, tests, formatting, type checks, and version-specific design notes. Model-ledger is an open-source inventory and governance framework for models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on model-ledger to run its test suite, linting, formatter, and type checker, and to navigate its connectors, storage backends, SDK, and agent tools.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent project-specific guidance so it can understand the codebase and use the documented checks when changing it.

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/block/model-ledger/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/block/model-ledger
Per session 1,331 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,331 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 $0.01331 $0.01331
Opus 5 $0.00665 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00266 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00133 $0.00133

Measured 2d ago against content hash 70a7feb84d3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-ledger 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 · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

model-ledger

Open-source model inventory and governance framework. Apache-2.0.

Build & Test

.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/ -v
.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_file.py::test_name -v  # single test
.venv/bin/python -m ruff check src/ tests/
.venv/bin/python -m ruff format src/ tests/
.venv/bin/python -m mypy src/

Architecture

v0.7.2+ (current — agent protocol + connectors + change tracking)

  • src/model_ledger/connectors/sql.py — sql_connector() factory
  • src/model_ledger/connectors/rest.py — rest_connector() factory
  • src/model_ledger/connectors/github.py — github_connector() factory
  • src/model_ledger/connectors/prefect.py — prefect_connector() factory (Prefect Cloud API)
  • src/model_ledger/backends/sqlite_ledger.py — SQLiteLedgerBackend (persistent, zero-dep)
  • src/model_ledger/backends/snowflake.py — SnowflakeLedgerBackend (production)
  • src/model_ledger/backends/http.py — HttpLedgerBackend (MCP → REST API pass-through)
  • src/model_ledger/backends/json_files.py — JsonFileLedgerBackend (git-friendly)
  • src/model_ledger/sdk/ledger.py — Ledger SDK with last_seen, change_detected/change_occurred
  • src/model_ledger/tools/ — 8 agent tool functions (record, query, investigate, trace, changelog, discover, tag, list_tags)
  • src/model_ledger/mcp/server.py — MCP server (FastMCP, 8 tools + 3 resources)
  • src/model_ledger/rest/app.py — REST API (FastAPI, create_app() factory)

v0.4.x (DataNode graph)

  • src/model_ledger/core/ledger_models.py — ModelRef, Snapshot, Tag
  • src/model_ledger/sdk/ledger.py — Ledger SDK (register, record, tag, add, connect, trace, upstream, downstream)
  • src/model_ledger/graph/models.py — DataNode, DataPort (with schema discriminators)
  • src/model_ledger/graph/protocol.py — SourceConnector protocol
  • src/model_ledger/backends/ledger_protocol.py — LedgerBackend protocol
  • src/model_ledger/backends/ledger_memory.py — InMemory backend
  • src/model_ledger/adapters/sql.py — SQL parsing (extract_tables, write_tables, model_name_filters)
  • src/model_ledger/adapters/tables.py — Table-based pipeline discovery
  • src/model_ledger/adapters/cron.py — Cron expression translation

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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 · 104 lines · 1,331 tokens per session scan A 70a7feb84d3d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

model-ledger CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository block/model-ledger (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,331 tokens to every session, about $0.0067 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.