sysknife CLAUDE.md

sysknife CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from lacs-project/sysknife. It costs 2,204 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository guide for SysKnife, a Linux tool that lets an agent plan and control system actions. It sets the current focus on Ubuntu and protects the boundary between planning, shell commands, and privileged system services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing SysKnife, especially Ubuntu actions, security-sensitive code, repository workflow, or pre-commit checks.
Why use it?
It helps agents avoid working on paused areas, weakening Fedora support, or committing code without the required tests.

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/lacs-project/sysknife/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lacs-project/sysknife

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Per session 2,204 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,204 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.02204 $0.02204
Opus 5 $0.01102 $0.01102
Sonnet 5 $0.00441 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00220 $0.00220

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0596eb803297, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sysknife 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 3d 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 · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SysKnife Operating Notes

This repository is for SysKnife, the Linux Agent Control Standard. Work here must preserve the trust boundary between the planner, the shell, and the privileged daemon.

Current Focus — Ubuntu; GUI Paused

GUI development is temporarily paused. Do not review, test, refactor, or extend apps/sysknife-shell/** (the Tauri desktop app). It stays in the tree and must keep building, so workspace-wide gates still cover it, but it is not where effort goes. Merging a dependency bump that only touches its lockfile is fine — that is maintenance, not development.

Analysis and development focus on Ubuntu, across its versions (22.04, 24.04, 26.04). Live-VM evidence, action coverage, and security review target the Debian-family path first.

Fedora is deprioritized, not dropped. The rpm-ostree action family, the atomic story family, and the FEDORA_ONLY_ACTIONS safety fence all stay intact and must keep passing; nothing here licenses deleting them.

Pre-Commit Gate

cargo nextest run --workspace --locked must pass with zero failures before any commit. Fix every failing test — do not commit with known pre-existing failures. If a test asserts the wrong value, fix the test assertion to match the code (or fix the code if the test is right); do not skip or ignore the test.

Repository Workflow

  • Use isolated git worktrees for feature work.
  • Prefer one branch per task or tightly related task batch.
  • Keep branches small, reviewable, and focused on a single concern.
  • Use the PR template for every pull request.
  • Open PRs only against main.
  • Request a code review before merge.
  • Apply review fixes, commit them, and push the branch again.
  • Merge only after the branch is reviewed and the checks pass.
  • Never leave green PRs hanging. A PR with all required checks passing is ready to merge. Dependabot PRs included — once their CI is green, merge them the same day. Open PRs accumulate merge conflicts, blow up signal-to-noise, and leave security fixes effectively unshipped.
  • Delete the remote branch after merge.
  • Delete the local branch after merge.
  • Delete the worktree directory after merge.

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 3d ago First seen · 218 lines · 2,204 tokens per session scan A 0596eb803297

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sysknife CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lacs-project/sysknife (8 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,204 tokens to every session, about $0.0110 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 2026-08-31.