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.
npx agentmods add instructions/cockroachdb/claude-plugin/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachdb/claude-pluginWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00594 | $0.00594 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00297 | $0.00297 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00119 | $0.00119 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00059 | $0.00059 |
Grade A, and why
claude-plugin AGENTS.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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 30 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent instructions for claude-plugin
Guidance for AI coding assistants (and new contributors) working in this repo. It complements CONTRIBUTING.md; read that first for setup and the full workflow.
What this repo is
The CockroachDB plugin for Claude Code: MCP backends (.mcp.json + tools.yaml), agents (agents/), skills (skills/), and safety hooks (hooks/hooks.json + scripts/).
Rules that prevent breakage
- Never edit
skills/by hand. Skills are synced from the cockroachdb-skills submodule by a weekly workflow that also regenerates theskillsarray in.claude-plugin/plugin.json. Changes there get overwritten. Contribute skills upstream instead. - Never bump versions by hand. Release Please owns
versionin.claude-plugin/plugin.json,.release-please-manifest.json, andCHANGELOG.md. Use conventional commits:fix:/feat:cut a release,chore:/docs:do not (and that is fine, because installs pull from git, not release tarballs). - Keep the hook command pattern. Hook commands load their script through a
runpybootstrap with a\\?\long-path prefix on Windows and a trailing; exit 0. This is load-bearing: it survives plugin cache paths past Windows MAX_PATH (issue #20) and hosts that fail to substitute${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}(issue #23). A hook must never surface an error on every edit; when the interpreter cannot even open the script, it must fail open. The exact pattern is documented in CONTRIBUTING. - Hook scripts are Python 3 stdlib only, read JSON on stdin, write JSON on stdout, and always exit 0 (blocking is signaled via
hookSpecificOutput.permissionDecision, not exit codes). - No counts in descriptions. Do not write "three agents" or "33 skills" anywhere; counts go stale. Name the things instead.
Testing
Run the hook regression suite before touching anything under hooks/ or scripts/:
bash scripts/test-hooks.sh
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.
- yesterday First seen · 30 lines · 594 tokens per session scan A a862c9b92ba6
claude-plugin AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cockroachdb/claude-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 594 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 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.
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