cordon CLAUDE.md

cordon CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from marras0914/cordon. It costs 3,834 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for developing Cordon, an AI-agent security gateway that sits between clients such as Claude Desktop or Cursor and MCP servers. They describe its workspace packages, commands, architecture, and important files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to install dependencies, build packages in order, run development mode, test the project, or build and work on an individual package.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the project structure and commands needed to make changes without guessing how the repository is organized.

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/marras0914/cordon/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marras0914/cordon

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Per session 3,834 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,834 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.03834 $0.03834
Opus 5 $0.01917 $0.01917
Sonnet 5 $0.00767 $0.00767
Haiku 4.5 $0.00383 $0.00383

Measured 4d ago against content hash 791934800a41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

cordon CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

If a future publish 403's with no obvious cause, run a stub-README publish to confirm; if that succeeds, bisect the README content. Likely culprits: any literal SQL injection demo, classic XSS payload (`<script>alert(1)<
CLAUDE.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cordon

Security gateway for AI agents. Sits between the LLM client (Claude Desktop, Cursor) and MCP servers, enforcing policies, logging every tool call, and requiring human approval for dangerous operations.

Project Layout

packages/
  sdk/    @getcordon/policy          — defineConfig() helper + all TypeScript types (no runtime deps)
  core/   @getcordon/core     — proxy engine: gateway, policy, approvals, audit, upstream manager
  cli/    @getcordon/cli          — CLI commands: `cordon init`, `start`, `login`, `logout`, `replay`

examples/
  security-showcase/          — interactive demo + block-test.ts integration tests (7/7 passing)

Planning docs live in the parent directory (../cordon-deux/) alongside the code.

Commands

npm install          # install all workspace deps
npm run build        # build all packages via turbo (respects dependency order: sdk → core → cli)
npm run dev          # watch mode for all packages
npm test             # run unit tests (vitest — 148 tests in @getcordon/core as of 2026-07-28)

Building a single package:

cd packages/core && npm run build

Running tests:

npm test                                                    # all unit tests via turbo
cd examples/security-showcase && npx tsx block-test.ts     # integration test (5/5)

Running the interactive demo:

cd examples/security-showcase && npm run demo
# When the approval prompt appears, type A to approve or D to deny

Architecture

The proxy is an aggregator: one Cordon process presents a unified MCP server to Claude Desktop and internally manages N child MCP processes (one per configured server).

Claude Desktop ──stdio──▶ CordonGateway ──stdio──▶ [MCP server A]
                                         ──stdio──▶ [MCP server B]

Critical: process.stdin and process.stdout are owned by the MCP transport. All logging and approval UI must write to process.stderr. The terminal approval channel reads from /dev/tty (Unix) or \\.\CONIN$ (Windows) directly — NOT from stdin.

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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. 4d ago First seen · 245 lines · 3,834 tokens per session scan C 791934800a41

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cordon CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository marras0914/cordon (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,834 tokens to every session, about $0.0192 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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