Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to liatrio-labs/claude-code-gauntlet. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liatrio-labs/claude-code-gauntlet/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liatrio-labs/claude-code-gauntletWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/liatrio-labs/claude-code-gauntlet/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/liatrio-labs/claude-code-gauntlet/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/liatrio-labs/claude-code-gauntlet/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/liatrio-labs/claude-code-gauntlet/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/liatrio-labs/claude-code-gauntlet/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00689 | $0.00689 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00276 | $0.00276 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00138 | $0.00138 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00069 | $0.00069 |
Grade A, and why
claude-code-gauntlet AGENTS.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 16d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
claude-code-gauntlet is a Claude Code marketplace plugin: a multi-agent code review pipeline.
There is no server, database, or Docker. Running it means running the suites below.
workflows/ and agents/ each carry a short AGENTS.md of their own. CONTRIBUTING.md holds the
CI coverage gates and everything else a human contributor needs.
Design
- Build the mechanism, not the instruction. Whatever code, a schema, a data structure, or a removed capability can enforce, it must. Prose in a prompt or agent file is the fallback.
- "Add more text" is a design smell. If that is the fix under consideration, change the shape.
- Extending should cost one edit. If a new dimension, field, or agent takes coordinated edits across several files, fix the shape instead of documenting the ritual.
Commands
python -m pytest tests/ -q # pipeline scripts
python -m pytest bench/tests/ -q # benchmark harness
node --test workflows/test/*.test.js # Node 24; a bare directory is not a valid target
node workflows/build.js # after editing workflows/src; commit the bundle
python3 workflows/test/tools/biome_check.py
pre-commit run --all-files # the lint gate
pre-commit sees tracked files only, so git add a new file before trusting a green run.
markdownlint-fix fixes in place and then reports failure: re-stage and re-run.
Constraints
- No
package.json, lockfile, ornode_modules.scripts/is stdlib-only Python 3.10, and the shipped bundle has zero dependencies. - Language-agnostic. Never assume the reviewed codebase's language: exclude non-source directories, never include by extension.
- Python shape. A JSON wire shape is a
TypedDict, an internal record is a frozen slotted dataclass, a closed vocabulary is aLiteral.scripts/*.pyare thin entry files; logic lives inscripts/gauntlet/. - New and rewritten tests are pytest functions that prove a behaviour once, at the boundary callers use. A regression test must fail against the bug it names: mutate the whole mechanism and watch it go red, because a partial mutation falls through to a neighbouring fallback and passes.
- Comments say why. No history, dates, or issue numbers in code; those belong in the PR.
- Never write the literal skip-ci token in a commit message, even when writing about it. GitHub Actions scans the whole message and silently skips every workflow.
- Session scratch stays out of the tree. Plans, memos, and handoff notes go in the PR or the
issue. Coverage data files stay out too: set
COVERAGE_FILEto a temp path.
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.
- 16d ago Changed · -109 lines · -1,295 tokens per session 4dc060be7e4f
- 20d ago Changed f01a93b2daf1
- 21d ago Changed 339666465590
- 24d ago Changed · +3 lines · +24 tokens per session f35b50f7bdb9
- 1mo ago Changed b5fe51b78215
- 1mo ago Changed f98565a42c79
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +26 tokens per session a375dd140d49
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +14 tokens per session bfec48b3ef59
- 1mo ago Changed · -10 lines · -343 tokens per session 7ac3f975d10a
- 1mo ago First seen · 168 lines · 2,263 tokens per session scan A fe87adb4502c
claude-code-gauntlet AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository liatrio-labs/claude-code-gauntlet (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 689 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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 2026-08-30.
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