kcp-harness: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

kcp-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Cantara/kcp-harness. It costs 407 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project instruction guide for Cantara's kcp-harness, an MCP compliance proxy that governs an AI agent's knowledge-related tool calls and records decision traces, audit logs, and budget information. It explains the repository's source of truth, skills, release process, and common mistakes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on kcp-harness, writing or reviewing governed skills, preparing releases, repairing its signed knowledge file, or checking integrations with coding agents.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents consistent rules for working in the repository and directs them to the right governance information before making changes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is Cantara/kcp-harness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kcp-harness itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kcp-harness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Cantara/kcp-harness. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cantara/kcp-harness/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cantara/kcp-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 5.1 $0.00407 $0.00407
Opus 5 $0.00204 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00081 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00041 $0.00041

Measured 7d ago against content hash d2990c48cec1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kcp-harness 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 7d 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 · 30 lines

What it actually says

kcp-harness

MCP compliance proxy: routes an AI agent's knowledge-related tool calls through the kcp-agent deterministic planner (14-gate cascade, no LLM), producing decision traces, audit logs, and budget ledgers as a side effect of normal agent operation. Ships as an npm package plus native binaries, with integration generators for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and others.

Start here

knowledge.yaml is this repo's canonical, agent-navigable source of truth (signed via knowledge.yaml.sig; the repo dogfoods its own governance through harness.yaml). Query it before grepping: npx kcp-agent plan "how does the harness govern a tool call?" --manifest .

Skills

Governed-skill authoring conventions (envelope shape, action_scope as a firewall rule) live in Cantara/kcp-skill PROFILE.md — read before writing or reviewing any kind: skill unit here. This repo's own skills/ holds procedures specific to operating kcp-harness (shared library content is federated from kcp-skill, never copied):

  • cut-a-release — the two-workflow release handoff (release.ymlci.yml)
  • resign-knowledge-yaml — recover an invalidated knowledge.yaml.sig on a PR branch

Gotchas

  • Editing knowledge.yaml invalidates knowledge.yaml.sig; CI checks it on the PR itself, so merging to main won't fix an already-red check.
  • Releases aren't a plain git tag && push — see skills/cut-a-release/ first.
  • Raw NUL bytes break node/bun parity (issue #51); scripts/check-nul-bytes.sh enforces this.
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. 7d ago First seen · 30 lines · 407 tokens per session scan A d2990c48cec1

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kcp-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Cantara/kcp-harness (0 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 407 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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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