conductor-cli CLAUDE.md

A reference guide for Conductor CLI, a command-line tool for managing Netflix Conductor workflows, tasks, schedules and related services. It also covers running a local server, task workers and AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing or authenticating Conductor CLI, connecting to Conductor servers, running workflows locally, starting workers, managing webhooks and schedules, or deploying agents.
Why use it?
It gives an AI coding assistant the project-specific commands and setup details needed to use Conductor CLI correctly, including the exact Homebrew package to install.

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/conductor-oss/conductor-cli/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor-cli
Per session 11,709 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 11,709 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 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 $0.11709 $0.11709
Opus 5 $0.05854 $0.05854
Sonnet 5 $0.02342 $0.02342
Haiku 4.5 $0.01171 $0.01171

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7d63b49194c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

conductor-cli CLAUDE.md scanned grade B 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 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

# Execute any command per task over stdin/stdout
CLAUDE.md · 997 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 997 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conductor CLI - AI Assistant Reference

Optimized reference for LLMs and AI assistants using the Conductor CLI.

Quick Overview

Conductor CLI (conductor) is a command-line tool for managing Netflix Conductor workflows, executions, tasks, webhooks, and schedules. It connects to Conductor server instances for workflow orchestration.

It also runs a local Conductor server for development (conductor server start), runs task workers (conductor worker), and manages AI agents (conductor agent, conductor deploy).

Installation

# Homebrew (macOS/Linux)
brew install conductor-oss/conductor/conductor

# Manual download from: https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor-cli/releases

Never suggest a bare brew install conductor. An unrelated conductor cask exists in homebrew/cask (Conductor.app from conductor.build), and Homebrew resolves unqualified names against core/cask before third-party taps — so the bare form installs the wrong package and leaves no conductor binary on PATH. Tapping first does not help. Always use the fully-qualified conductor-oss/conductor/conductor.

If the cask is already installed, installing the formula is not enough: Homebrew prints conductor cask is installed, skipping link and creates no symlink, so conductor --version still fails. Fix with brew link conductor (keeps both) or brew uninstall --cask conductor before installing (CLI only). Diagnose with which conductor and brew info --cask conductor.

Authentication

Three methods. Command-line flags override individual settings. Below them, credentials come from a single source — the environment or a config file, never both at once (see Profile Management):

Method Command-line Flags Environment Variables
Auth Token (recommended) --auth-token <token> CONDUCTOR_AUTH_TOKEN
API Key + Secret --auth-key <key> --auth-secret <secret> CONDUCTOR_AUTH_KEY, CONDUCTOR_AUTH_SECRET
Config File --config <path> N/A

Read the full file on GitHub · 997 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 · 997 lines · 11,709 tokens per session scan B 7d63b49194c3

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conductor-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository conductor-oss/conductor-cli (11 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11,709 tokens to every session, about $0.0585 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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