claude-model-advisor CLAUDE.md

claude-model-advisor CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Jaace/claude-model-advisor. It costs 584 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding tool, in a repository that advises which AI model and effort level to use. It also describes the repository's files and startup checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure a session-start message, understand the plugin structure, and run a mid-session model check.
Why use it?
It gives the coding tool consistent project-specific guidance at the start of a session and during later model checks.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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/jaace/claude-model-advisor/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jaace/claude-model-advisor

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 5.1 $0.00584 $0.00584
Opus 5 $0.00292 $0.00292
Sonnet 5 $0.00117 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00058 $0.00058

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4fc7d2d8cc38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-model-advisor 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 5d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this repo is

A Claude Code plugin that injects model/effort guidance at session start. It has no build system, no dependencies, and no tests — it's a shell script and a set of prompt/config files.

Plugin structure

.claude-plugin/plugins/model-advisor/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json        # Plugin metadata (name, version, author)
├── hooks/hooks.json                  # Registers the SessionStart hook
├── hooks-handlers/session-start.sh  # Core logic: outputs JSON with additionalContext
└── commands/model-check.md          # Prompt for the /model-check skill

The marketplace.json at the root registers this repo as a marketplace source pointing to ./.claude-plugin/plugins/model-advisor.

How it works

  • hooks.json registers a SessionStart hook that runs session-start.sh (5s timeout)
  • session-start.sh emits a JSON blob with hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext — this is the text Claude receives at session start
  • model-check.md is a skill prompt used for mid-session reassessment via /model-check

The model/effort guidance matrix

The core content this plugin delivers (defined in session-start.sh and model-check.md):

Model — what capability is needed?

  • haiku: simple lookups, quick edits, boilerplate, single-fact questions
  • sonnet: coding, debugging, refactoring, explanations, any question with tradeoffs or nuanced judgment
  • opus: novel multi-system architecture, hard math, genuinely ambiguous open-ended design problems

Effort — how much reasoning is needed? (not applicable to Haiku; max is Opus only)

  • auto: Claude decides based on the task (default)
  • low: established knowledge retrieval/explanation; shape of answer is known
  • medium: some reasoning required; path is clear
  • high: ambiguous problems, hard tradeoffs, novel synthesis, many interdependent constraints
  • max (Opus 4.6 only): maximum thinking budget; for the hardest problems where cost is no concern

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 5d ago First seen · 56 lines · 584 tokens per session scan A 4fc7d2d8cc38

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claude-model-advisor CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Jaace/claude-model-advisor (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 584 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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.