agentao CLAUDE.md

agentao CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from jin-bo/agentao. It costs 9,783 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

A repository guide for Agentao, a Python tool for running AI-agent workflows from an interactive or command-line interface. It documents package management, commands, optional features, and the main ways to run the tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up Agentao, running prompts interactively or automatically, starting its ACP server, and working with its optional command-line features.
Why use it?
It prevents using the wrong dependency or startup commands. It also clarifies which optional components are needed for different tasks.

Instructions file

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/jin-bo/agentao/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jin-bo/agentao

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Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.09783 $0.09783
Opus 5 $0.04892 $0.04892
Sonnet 5 $0.01957 $0.01957
Haiku 4.5 $0.00978 $0.00978

Measured today against content hash d1381560fb80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

agentao CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 2 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 today.

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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

**Confirmation / permissions**: `PermissionEngine` evaluates rules from `.agentao/permissions.json` (project) + `<home>/.agentao/permissions.json` (user). Precedence in `runtime/tool_planning.py::_decide` is three-tier,

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

- **Don't call `subprocess.run` for batch commands — use `agentao/capabilities/process.py::run_captured()`.** A bare `subprocess.run(timeout=)` only kills the direct child on timeout, so a grandchild holding the captured
CLAUDE.md · 374 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 374 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.

Package Management

Always use uv for package management, not pip:

uv sync                    # Install dependencies
uv add package-name        # Add a new dependency
uv run python script.py    # Run Python scripts
uv run agentao             # Run the CLI

Core deps live in [project.dependencies]; the heavyweight UI / fetch / tokenization deps are opt-in extras. A bare pip install agentao gets a library-only install; pip install 'agentao[cli]' is the smallest interactive CLI. (The [pdf] / [excel] / [image] / [crypto] / [google] extras were removed as dead weight — zero in-tree consumers; see docs/design/optimization-opportunities-review.md T1.1.)

Running

./run.sh                              # Quick start (interactive)
uv run agentao                        # Interactive CLI
uv run python -m agentao              # Same, via module entrypoint
uv run agentao run --prompt "..."     # Non-interactive automation (M0)
uv run agentao --acp --stdio          # ACP server (Issue 12)

agentao run is the canonical non-interactive surface. Exit codes: 0 ok, 1 runtime, 2 invalid usage, 3 permission/interaction, 4 max iterations, 130 interrupted. See agentao/cli/run.py and docs/reference/configuration.md. The legacy agentao -p "..." is now a thin shim over agentao run.

Testing

uv run python -m pytest tests/       # Default suite
uv run python -m pytest -m slow      # Clean-install smoke tests
uv run ruff check .                  # Lint gate — required CI check

The slow marker is excluded by default (pyproject.toml :: tool.pytest.ini_options.addopts = "--tb=short -m 'not slow'").

ruff check . is a required CI check, so a green pytest run is not enough before pushing. The gate is deliberately narrow — defect rules only (E9, F401, F402, F405, F811, F821), no style — and the rules and scope both live in pyproject.toml, so the command above is character-for-character what CI runs. Two non-obvious parts: F405 is selected because F821 is silently inert in the 8 star-import modules without it, and F401 is exempted for agentao/ because a name re-exported for downstream embedders is indistinguishable from dead code to a single-file linter. Suppress with a reason (# noqa: F401 — pytest fixture injection), never bare. See docs/design/lint-gate.md.

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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.

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agentao CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jin-bo/agentao (95 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9,783 tokens to every session, about $0.0489 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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