vibe-agent-toolkit: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

vibe-agent-toolkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from jdutton/vibe-agent-toolkit. It costs 4,168 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for vibe-agent-toolkit, a toolkit for building, testing, and deploying AI agents across different language models and platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding development decisions, API changes, and the distribution of the project’s skills and packages.
Why use it?
It gives contributors project-specific rules, including how to handle breaking changes while the project is before its 1.0 release.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is jdutton/vibe-agent-toolkit's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vibe-agent-toolkit 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 vibe-agent-toolkit configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdutton/vibe-agent-toolkit/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jdutton/vibe-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Measured 19d ago against content hash 6d22294ca5ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vibe-agent-toolkit 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 19d 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 · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Development Guidelines

Rules for anyone (human or agent) working on vibe-agent-toolkit — a TypeScript monorepo for building, testing and distributing portable AI agents and skills. Architecture and every how-to live in docs/; this file carries only rules that prevent a specific mistake. Convention: every rule here ends with (enforced by: <check>) or (not enforced) — if you add a rule, tag it; if you add an enforcer, retag the rule.

Pre-1.0 policy — backward compatibility is a bug

While the version is 0.x: no compatibility layers, no deprecation shims, no re-exports "for convenience", no old API kept beside a new one. Make the breaking change, delete the old code, force consumers to update, and record it under Breaking in the changelog. Semantic versioning with deprecation cycles starts at 1.0. (not enforced)

No version constants — the npm package version is the only version

No hand-maintained integer decides whether stored data is still valid: no CACHE_VERSION, SCHEMA_VERSION, *_REVISION, no z.literal(<n>) on a version field, no schema:/v1alpha label in VAT's own output. Derive the fact from the shape itself (a digest of the schema's declaration, as parseFactsShapeSource() does), validate with a .strict() schema, or invalidate explicitly by deleting the stored artifact. Any PR that introduces one must say so under its own heading so it is removed before merge. Not offenders: an external API header value, a real list of supported versions, a regex that parses versions, a VERSION string in a test fixture. Rationale: docs/contributing/no-version-constants.md. (enforced by: local/no-version-literal for the integer shapes; labels and the PR heading are not)

Drift classes — fix the class, never the instance

Each of these grew for months under a green gate and was found only by adversarial review. When one surfaces, fix it the right way in the same change — one contract, every caller migrated, the enforcer added — never quiet it with a compat shim, an allowlist entry, a directive, a widened factor or a TODO. Tells and fixes: docs/contributing/drift-classes.md. (not enforced)

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 lines

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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.

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vibe-agent-toolkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jdutton/vibe-agent-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 4,168 tokens to every session, about $0.0167 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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