Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to hermes-labs-ai/hermeneutic. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hermes-labs-ai/hermeneutic/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hermes-labs-ai/hermeneuticWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/hermes-labs-ai/hermeneutic/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/hermes-labs-ai/hermeneutic/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/hermes-labs-ai/hermeneutic/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/hermes-labs-ai/hermeneutic/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/hermes-labs-ai/hermeneutic/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00351 | $0.00351 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00176 | $0.00176 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00070 | $0.00070 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00035 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
hermeneutic 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 10d 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.
What it actually says
CLAUDE.md — working on hermeneutic
Read AGENTS.md first — it is the canonical in-session protocol for coding
agents using or modifying this repo, and everything there applies to Claude
Code sessions too.
Repo-specific rules for agents:
- The core gate stays zero-LLM. Never wire an LLM call into a default path. The optional compiler defaults to localhost Ollama; Python callers can override that URL, and caller-supplied Router components own their network and credential behavior.
- Every behavior change gets a test, and the full suite must stay green:
PYTHONPATH=src python -m pytest -q. The README/CHANGELOG test count is enforced bytests/test_docs_consistency.py— update all surfaces together. - Never loosen an existing gate rule to silence a false positive. Note it
in the harvest queue instead; rule changes require mined evidence
(see
evals/triple-mining-receipts.mdfor the bar). - Honest partial progress is not drift — don't "improve" recall by
flagging "did X, but Y remains" (
_CONTRAST_GUARDprotects this; keep it). - Numbers in docs must trace to committed receipts in
evals/. No uncommitted benchmark claims. - Lint with
ruff check src testsbefore committing.
To verify a deployment of this tool in your own environment, run the
forward-deployed harness: python3 forward-deployed/harness.py (see
FORWARD-DEPLOYED-HARNESS.md).
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 28 lines · 351 tokens per session scan A 7d64b6f73f49
hermeneutic CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hermes-labs-ai/hermeneutic (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 351 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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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