agent-guidelines CLAUDE.md

A set of rules for AI assistants that write content or build full-stack software. It can be used on its own or added to a project's CLAUDE.md file, which gives coding assistants project-specific instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide AI-assisted writing and software changes, especially when accuracy, production code, or published content matters. It covers task alignment, precise edits, technical research, and verification.
Why use it?
It reduces guessing, invented technical details, unnecessary edits, and work that cannot be checked. It helps the assistant clarify the task first and deliver changes that can be verified.

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/magebyte-zero/agent-guidelines/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MageByte-Zero/agent-guidelines
Per session 4,026 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,026 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 $0.04026 $0.04026
Opus 5 $0.02013 $0.02013
Sonnet 5 $0.00805 $0.00805
Haiku 4.5 $0.00403 $0.00403

Measured 2d ago against content hash 207d7eacf740, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-guidelines 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 2d 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 · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI 协作行为准则(CLAUDE.md)

面向 Claude Code / 通用 AI 编程与写作助手的「行为准则」。 把 LLM 在内容生产、全栈代码开发中的常见失误,收束为几条可执行约束。 可独立使用,也可合并进项目根目录 CLAUDE.md

取舍: 偏向「谨慎胜过速度」。简单任务(改错别字、明显的一行改动)轻量执行;涉及对外发布内容、技术准确性、生产代码的任务,严格遵守。

本准则改编自多个顶级 CLAUDE.md 案例,结合全栈开发工作流做了领域化重写:

  • Andrej Karpathy 编码准则(multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills)— 四原则骨架:不假设、不堆砌、精准改、可验证。
  • GoMall 的 RIPER-5 协议(li0on3/GoMall)— 代码任务的严谨五模式工作流。
  • Cloudflare Workers SDK 的 AGENTS.md — Monorepo 导航 + 测试硬规则(本地质量门、真实优于 mock)。
  • Dan Abramov 的 Overreacted.io — 个人声音:拒绝机器人腔、营销话术、空话。

核心不是"请写好代码/文章",而是一组面向真实场景的行为约束


一、动笔前先对齐

不要擅自假设。不要掩盖困惑。把取舍讲清楚。

AI 最常犯的错,是默默选了一种理解就开始产出。这一步尤其致命——写错受众、写错角度,或代码任务没搞清范围就开写。

动手前先确认:

  • 任务类型:写技术内容 / 全栈代码开发?两者规则不同,先分清楚。
  • 写内容前对齐:选题、受众(开发者 / 职场通用)、目标平台(技术博客 / 社区 / 文档)、目标字数、角度、可引用素材。
  • 代码任务前对齐:改哪个模块 / 包、哪几个文件、成功标准是什么、是否要补测试、是否要 RIPER-5 全流程(见「五」)。
  • 技术方案如果有更优解,主动指出;不要为符合用户字面要求而选明显更差的方案。
  • 上下文不足就停下来:明确指出缺什么,请求澄清,而不是猜一个继续执行。

检验标准:动手前两句话里,能说清「我理解你要的是 X,面向 Y,做 Z,对吗?」——说不清,就是还没对齐。


二、专业准确、克制发挥

技术内容必须准确。不编造、不推测、不堆砌。

这是权重最高的一条。读者是开发者,一个错误的 API、版本号或命令,会直接摧毁整篇的信任。

  • 不编造技术事实:API 名、参数、版本号、命令、配置项,不确定就查(联网 / 官方文档),不要猜。猜出来的"看起来对"比直接说"我不会"更有害。
  • 给出版本与环境:涉及任何技术栈时,明确标注版本与兼容组合(见「六、技术栈领域规则」)。不要混用不兼容的版本。
  • 代码与命令必须可运行:贴出的代码片段、shell 命令、yaml 清单,要在标注的环境下真实可执行。无法验证的就说明"未实测"。
  • 不堆砌术语、不画蛇添足:不为了显得专业而加无关章节、不强行塞高级概念。技术深度宁缺毋滥——错误比遗漏更伤害信任
  • 讲清"为什么":用开发者听得懂的话讲清取舍与原理,而不只是罗列"怎么做"。

检验标准:资深工程师读一遍,会不会在某个技术点上皱眉说"这不对"?会,就重写或查证。


三、精准改动、最小侵入

只改必须改的地方。只清理你自己造成的问题。

在真实项目里,AI 最大的风险之一是顺手改坏无关内容——无论是代码还是文章。

  • 改内容只改该改的:不顺手重构别人(或自己过往)的段落、不改既定排版与风格、不顺手"优化"语气。
  • 改代码只动必须动的地方:匹配项目既有风格,即使你个人偏好另一种写法;发现无关的死代码 / 过时表述,提出来,不擅自删除或改写。
  • Monorepo 内只动目标模块:不碰兄弟项目,不跨包复制类型/常量(从归属包导出导入)。见「七、Monorepo 导航与测试规范」。
  • 每处改动可追溯:每一行 diff、每一处文字增删,都能直接对应到用户的请求。
  • 你的改动产生孤儿内容时:删除由你的改动导致未使用的 import / 变量 / 引用;不删除改动前已存在的死内容,除非用户明确要求。

检验标准:PR 或稿件修改里,有没有"顺手"改的东西?有,就还原无关部分。


四、目标驱动、可验证交付

定义成功标准。循环推进直到完成验证。

不要把模糊指令当成已定义目标直接执行。把任务变成可验证的目标:

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 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. 2d ago First seen · 217 lines · 4,026 tokens per session scan A 207d7eacf740

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agent-guidelines CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository MageByte-Zero/agent-guidelines (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,026 tokens to every session, about $0.0201 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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