ai-driven-development: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

ai-driven-development AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development. It costs 1,181 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of development and publishing rules for a repository that contains coding-agent skills and a plugin marketplace. It explains how the shared files are used and when changes require tags or releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing skill files, hooks, plugin manifests, marketplace entries, or licensing files, and when deciding how to publish those changes.
Why use it?
It reduces uncertainty about repository structure, branches, commits, publishing, and release requirements when maintaining skills, hooks, or plugin metadata.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on ai-driven-development 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 ai-driven-development configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development. 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/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 1,181 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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.

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Fable 5.1 $0.01181 $0.01181
Opus 5.5 $0.00472 $0.00472
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00236 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00118 $0.00118

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7f258cc51c56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-driven-development 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 1mo 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.

AGENTS.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-Driven Development — Development Guide

This repo is a single-plugin marketplace and a cross-agent skill collection in one. The same skills/ directory at the repo root is read by both npx skills add (the cross-agent CLI) and Claude Code's plugin install (/plugin marketplace add + /plugin install …@ai-driven-development). The plugin sees the repo root as itself via source: "./" in marketplace.json — no nesting, no symlinks, no duplication.

Git publishing defaults

When the user asks to commit or push without naming a target branch, commit and push directly to main. If the current branch is main, stay on it; do not create a feature branch by default. Use another branch only when the user explicitly requests one.

When to create tags and releases

Only create git tags and GitHub releases when skill, hook, or plugin files change.

Requires a new tag/release

  • skills/*/ — any skill file changes (SKILL.md, scripts, references, assets)
  • hooks/*/ — any hook source changes (Go code, install scripts, hook configs)
  • .claude-plugin/plugin.json — plugin manifest changes
  • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json — marketplace catalogue changes
  • LICENSE — licence changes

Examples:

  • Adding a new skill or hook
  • Updating skill instructions in SKILL.md
  • Modifying skill scripts
  • Changing plugin metadata or version

Does NOT require a new tag/release

Documentation-only changes don't need tagging:

  • README.md — documentation and use-case updates
  • AGENTS.md and the CLAUDE.md import shim — repository instructions
  • Commit messages
  • GitHub-specific files (.github/*)

Rationale: users install specific commits via SHA. Documentation updates don't affect functionality, so they don't need version bumps. This keeps the release history clean.

README maintenance

The repo ships English-only. When you add or remove a skill, or change a skill description:

  • Update the relevant section table in README.md
  • Update the skill's own SKILL.md (agent-facing) and README.md (human-facing, optional)
  • Update .claude-plugin/plugin.json and .claude-plugin/marketplace.json versions

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +71 tokens per session 7f258cc51c56
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 101 lines · 1,110 tokens per session scan A 64a2dcc4263f

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ai-driven-development AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development (163 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,181 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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