What is OpenAgentFormat CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for OpenAgentFormat, a project that defines a format for coding-agent configurations. They cover Claude Code notes, keeping specification files in sync, and updating versions.

Updating the format, synchronising its specification files, and applying the project's Claude Code guidance.

They help keep documentation and specification files aligned as the format changes.

How jeffrschneider/OpenAgentFormat configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jeffrschneider/OpenAgentFormat. 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/jeffrschneider/OpenAgentFormat/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffrschneider/OpenAgentFormat

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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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.

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Per session 134 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 134 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00134	$0.00134
Opus 5.5	$0.00054	$0.00054
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00027	$0.00027
Haiku 4.5	$0.00013	$0.00013

Measured 2mo ago against content hash fffd0ddc755f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

OpenAgentFormat 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 2mo 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 · 19 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

2mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A fffd0ddc755f

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OpenAgentFormat CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jeffrschneider/OpenAgentFormat (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), with no licence file. It adds 134 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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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OpenAgentFormat: Instructions file for Claude Code