ecspresso CLAUDE.md

ecspresso CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from kayac/ecspresso. It costs 931 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for ecspresso, a Go deployment tool that manages services running on Amazon ECS, Amazon's container orchestration service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when building, testing, formatting, packaging, or changing ecspresso and its GitHub Action.
Why use it?
They define the repository workflow, build and test commands, release steps, and rules for working with branches and action files.

Instructions file

About the project

ecspresso is a deployment tool for Amazon ECS that manages services and task definitions as code in JSON, YAML, or Jsonnet files. It helps teams version, validate, preview, deploy, scale, and roll back ECS infrastructure. The catalogue entries provide agent skills and instructions for working with ecspresso.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/kayac/ecspresso/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kayac/ecspresso

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Measured 5d ago against content hash cd5df08626ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ecspresso 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 · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 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.

Project Overview

ecspresso is a deployment tool for Amazon ECS written in Go. It manages ECS services through configuration files (YAML, JSON, or Jsonnet) that define task definitions and service definitions.

Git Workflow

  • Default branch: v2
  • Do not commit directly to v2. Always create a feature branch first.
  • When changing action.yml, force-push the same commit to the v2-action-testing branch as well. CI for the GitHub Action runs against that branch, so pushing there is how action.yml changes get exercised end-to-end.

Build Commands

# Build the binary
make

# Install to GOPATH/bin
make install

# Run all tests
make test

# Run a single test
go test -v -run TestFunctionName ./...

# Format code (run before committing)
go fmt ./...

# Build release packages
make packages

Architecture

Core Components

  • App (ecspresso.go): Main application struct that holds AWS clients (ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudWatch Logs, IAM, etc.) and orchestrates operations
  • Config (config.go): Configuration loading and validation. Supports YAML, JSON, and Jsonnet formats with template functions
  • CLI (cli.go, cliv2.go): Command-line interface using Kong. Each subcommand (deploy, run, diff, etc.) has its own option struct and handler

Command Structure

Commands are defined as option structs in their respective files:

  • deploy.go - Deploy/update ECS services (rolling update, Blue/Green via ECS or CodeDeploy)
  • run.go - Run standalone ECS tasks
  • rollback.go - Rollback to previous task definition
  • diff.go - Show differences between local and remote definitions
  • verify.go - Validate configurations and AWS resources
  • init.go - Generate config from existing ECS service

Template System

Definition files support Go template syntax via github.com/kayac/go-config:

  • {{ env "VAR" "default" }} - Environment variable with default
  • {{ must_env "VAR" }} - Required environment variable
  • {{ tfstate "resource.attr" }} - Terraform state lookup (plugin)

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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.

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ecspresso CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kayac/ecspresso (1,118 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 931 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 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 2026-08-30.

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