crow CLAUDE.md

A set of project instructions for Crow, a manager tool that coordinates development sessions through its command-line interface. It covers session naming, architecture decision records, and session commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working in a Crow-managed development root, naming manager sessions, following the Crow command-line reference, or maintaining architecture decision records.
Why use it?
It gives developers consistent rules for managing Crow sessions and recording important architecture decisions. It also helps keep manager sessions identifiable.

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/corveil/crow/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/corveil/crow
Per session 12,087 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 12,087 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 $0.12087 $0.12087
Opus 5 $0.06044 $0.06044
Sonnet 5 $0.02417 $0.02417
Haiku 4.5 $0.01209 $0.01209

Measured 2d ago against content hash cdecba9e864c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

crow 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Claude Code permission patterns, aggregated from global `~/.claude/settings.json` + each worktree's `.claude/settings.local.json`.
CLAUDE.md · 499 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 499 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crow — Manager Context

This is the development root managed by Crow. The Manager tab runs Claude Code here to orchestrate work sessions via the crow CLI.

Naming this Manager session

Additional Managers are created as Manager 2, Manager 3, … — a title that tells the operator nothing about the work. As soon as you know what this session is for, give it a name that reflects that, so the sidebar stays legible.

On the first real ask of this session — the first user turn that hands you actual work, not a greeting — and before you start that work:

  1. If $CROW_SESSION_ID is 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, you are the primary Manager. Never rename it — stop here.
  2. Run crow get-session --session "$CROW_SESSION_ID" and read name. If it is not of the form Manager <N> (e.g. Manager 2), this session was already named — stop here.
  3. Otherwise derive a short title from the ask: 2–6 words or a short slug (ios-keyboard-cursor, review crow-1078, file keyboard bug). It must be non-empty, ≤256 characters, free of control characters, and must not collide with an existing name — check crow list-sessions.
  4. Rename through the CLI, so the persist / sidebar row / agent /rename (CROW-629) all run on one path:
    crow rename-session --session "$CROW_SESSION_ID" "<derived-name>"
    

Do this once. After step 4 the name is no longer Manager <N>, so step 2 keeps it from firing again on later turns. Never rename on every message, and never rename the primary Manager or a session the operator already named.

Architecture Decision Records

Architectural decisions live in docs/adr/. Read docs/adr/README.md for the index, and copy docs/adr/template.md to start a new one. When superseding a decision, update the old ADR's Status field to Superseded by NNNN — don't delete it. The history is the point.

Read the full file on GitHub · 499 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 · 499 lines · 12,087 tokens per session scan B cdecba9e864c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

crow CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository corveil/crow (18 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12,087 tokens to every session, about $0.0604 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.