OODA-loop: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

OODA-loop CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from mataeil/OODA-loop. It costs 313 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for OODA-loop, an autonomous AI-agent harness based on Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. They define its files, safety rules, session continuity records, skill layout, and configuration practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on the harness, its skills and contracts, session state, plans, configuration, or rules for safe repository changes.
Why use it?
They give agents a consistent operating procedure across sessions and reduce risks such as exposing secrets or staging unintended files.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is mataeil/OODA-loop's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on OODA-loop 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 OODA-loop configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mataeil/OODA-loop. 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/mataeil/OODA-loop/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mataeil/OODA-loop

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 313 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 313 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00313 $0.00313
Opus 5.5 $0.00125 $0.00125
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00063 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.00031

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e89d3477dc88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

OODA-loop 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 · 39 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md — OODA-loop

Autonomous operations agent harness built on Boyd's OODA loop for Claude Code.

Structure

  • skills/ — All SKILL.md files (plugin auto-discovers these)
  • .claude-plugin/plugin.json — Plugin manifest
  • agent/contracts/ — Skill contract schema
  • agent/state/ — Runtime state (gitignored, per-project)
  • config.example.json — Config template for user projects

Code Rules

  • All files written in English
  • No secrets in config.json — use environment variable references only ($ENV_VAR)
  • Every skill must start with a HALT file check
  • No git add -A — explicit file staging only
  • Skills live in skills/{name}/SKILL.md, not in agent/skills/

Session Continuity

Design decisions, 7-Agent review results, and implementation plans from prior sessions:

  • .claude/context.md
  • .claude/plans/OODA-loop-plan.md

한국어 참고

Boyd의 OODA 루프 기반 자율운영 AI 에이전트 하네스.

코드 규칙

  • 모든 파일은 영어로 작성
  • config.json에 시크릿 직접 저장 금지 — 환경변수 참조만 ($ENV_VAR)
  • 스킬은 반드시 HALT 파일 체크로 시작
  • git add -A 금지 — 명시적 파일 스테이징만
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 · 39 lines · 313 tokens per session scan A e89d3477dc88

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OODA-loop CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mataeil/OODA-loop (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 313 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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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