agent-comm: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

agent-comm CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from keshrath/agent-comm. It costs 1,143 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for building agent-comm, a Node.js and TypeScript system for agents, messages, storage, web APIs, WebSockets, and an MCP connection. They also describe its plain JavaScript dashboard and coding conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing agent-comm services, SQLite storage, REST or WebSocket transport, MCP support, the dashboard, or its TypeScript and CSS styles.
Why use it?
They give maintainers the project's architecture and interface rules, helping new changes fit its dependency-injection structure, storage layer, transports, and dashboard.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions OpenCode.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to keshrath/agent-comm. 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/keshrath/agent-comm/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/keshrath/agent-comm

Made for: Claude Code.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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 $0.01143 $0.01143
Opus 5.5 $0.00457 $0.00457
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00229 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00114 $0.00114

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 95c2fe519c52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-comm 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 · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

agent-comm

Architecture

Layered architecture with explicit dependency injection (no global state):

src/
  domain/     agents, channels, messages, state, feed, cleanup, rate-limit, events
  storage/    SQLite (better-sqlite3, WAL mode)
  transport/  REST (node:http), WebSocket (ws), MCP (stdio)
  ui/         Vanilla JS dashboard (no build step for UI)
  • No frameworks — no React, Vue, Express. Pure Node.js + TypeScript.
  • context.ts is the DI root — wires all services together.
  • UI files (index.html, app.js, styles.css) are plain files copied to dist/ui/ on build.

UI / Dashboard

  • Icons: Material Symbols Outlined (via Google Fonts CSS). No emojis.
  • Fonts: Inter (UI text), JetBrains Mono (code/data)
  • Theme: Light/dark toggle via .theme-light / .theme-dark class on <body>
  • Design tokens: CSS custom properties (--bg, --accent, --border, --shadow-*, etc.)
  • Accent color: #5d8da8
  • Radii: 12px cards, 16px panels, 8px small elements
  • Section headers: Uppercase, 13px, weight 600, letter-spacing 0.5px
  • Empty states: Material Symbols icon (block, centered) + text + optional hint

Code Style

  • ESLint + Prettier enforced via lint-staged (husky pre-commit)

Versioning

  • Version lives in package.json and is read at runtime (REST /health, WS state payload, UI sidebar)
  • Never hardcode version strings
  • Every commit must bump the patch version minimum
  • Commit message format: v1.0.x: short description

Build & Test

npm run build      # tsc + copy UI files to dist/
npm test           # vitest (unit + integration + e2e)
npm run check      # typecheck + lint + format + test
npm run dev        # watch mode (tsc + nodemon)

Key APIs

  • REST: GET /health, GET /api/agents, GET /api/messages, GET /api/channels, GET /api/state, GET /api/feed, POST /api/cleanup/stale, POST /api/cleanup/full, POST /api/state/:ns/:key/cas (atomic compare-and-swap, used by the file-coord hook)
  • WebSocket: Full state on connect, incremental events streamed, refresh request supported
  • MCP: 7 tools (comm_register, comm_agents, comm_send, comm_inbox, comm_poll, comm_channel, comm_state). comm_inbox accepts an importance filter; comm_poll blocks on message:sent until a matching message arrives (or timeout). Full-text search (FTS5) is available via REST (GET /api/messages/search) for the dashboard's human-facing search bar — agents use comm_inbox with filters instead. Activity feed is auto-emitted internally on all actions (no MCP tool needed).

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 2mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 1,143 tokens per session scan A 95c2fe519c52

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agent-comm CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository keshrath/agent-comm (9 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,143 tokens to every session, about $0.0046 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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