RivalSearch-Plugin: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

RivalSearch-Plugin CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from damionrashford/RivalSearch-Plugin. It costs 1,977 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a Claude Code plugin that connects to RivalSearchMCP, a service providing research tools for web, social, news, GitHub, academic, and document searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or maintaining the Rival Search plugin and when looking up its tools, agents, or skills.
Why use it?
It explains the plugin’s structure, available tools, specialist agents, and operating rules in one place.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the NotebookEdit tool.

This is damionrashford/RivalSearch-Plugin's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on RivalSearch-Plugin 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 RivalSearch-Plugin configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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Clone the repo
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Security

Grade A, and why

RivalSearch-Plugin 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 8d ago.

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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 · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rival Search — Claude Code Plugin

This file is read by Claude when working in this project. It contains architecture, conventions, and tool references. For human-facing docs, see README.md.

What This Claude Code Plugin Is

Rival Search Plugin is a Claude Code Plugin powered by the RivalSearchMCP MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. It turns Claude into a full AI research team — no API keys, no setup.

This Claude Code plugin connects to RivalSearchMCP via MCP at https://RivalSearchMCP.fastmcp.app/mcp and provides:

  • 10 MCP tools — web, social, news, GitHub, academic, document analysis, and more
  • 5 agent skills — slash commands that run multi-step research workflows
  • 6 AI research agents — specialist analysts Claude invokes automatically
  • Portable hooks — audit logging and quality gates

Architecture

rival-search-plugin/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   ├── plugin.json           # Plugin manifest (name, version, component paths)
│   └── marketplace.json      # Marketplace distribution config
├── .mcp.json                 # MCP connection → https://RivalSearchMCP.fastmcp.app/mcp
├── agents/                   # 6 specialist agents (full frontmatter)
├── skills/                   # 5 slash-command workflows
├── hooks/
│   └── hooks.json            # Plugin-level event hooks
├── CLAUDE.md                 # This file
├── LICENSE                   # MIT license
└── README.md                 # Human-facing documentation

Skills → Agent Mapping

Skill What It Does Used By Agents
research Multi-source research + academic papers, datasets, implementations research-analyst, content-strategist
competitive-intel Company/market/website intelligence + SWOT competitive-intel, due-diligence
due-diligence Company OR person investigation + risk assessment due-diligence
trend-intel News digests + trend trajectory + velocity indicators trend-analyst, content-strategist
fact-check Claim verification + confidence scoring + evidence chains fact-checker

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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. 8d ago First seen · 203 lines · 1,977 tokens per session scan A e9262eefd463

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RivalSearch-Plugin CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/RivalSearch-Plugin (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,977 tokens to every session, about $0.0099 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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