sift CLAUDE.md

sift CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from mefos-lab/sift. It costs 2,820 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for Sift, a multi-source investigation server that cross-references public company, sanctions, court, property, ownership, leak, and identity records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to investigate companies and people, trace ownership links, check sanctions or politically exposed person records, search filings and court records, and create investigation reports or visualizations.
Why use it?
They explain what each source contains and what access it requires, making it easier to combine records without treating one database as complete on its own.

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/mefos-lab/sift/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mefos-lab/sift

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Per session 2,820 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,820 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 $0.02820 $0.02820
Opus 5 $0.01410 $0.01410
Sonnet 5 $0.00564 $0.00564
Haiku 4.5 $0.00282 $0.00282

Measured 3d ago against content hash 927f26e762c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sift 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 · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sift — Multi-Source MCP Server

MCP server that cross-references 9 public data sources: ICIJ Offshore Leaks, OpenSanctions, GLEIF LEI Registry, SEC EDGAR, UK Companies House, CourtListener (US court records), OCCRP Aleph (investigative datasets), UK Land Registry (property transactions), and Wikidata (entity enrichment and PEP identification).

Structure

  • sift/ — MCP server, API clients, traversal engine, visualizer
  • .claude/skills/ — Investigation skill (slash command)
  • patterns/ — Documented offshore structure patterns (accumulated over investigations)
  • visualizations/ — D3 HTML template for interactive investigation visualizations
  • investigations/ — Generated investigation reports and visualizations

Data Sources

Source Coverage Auth
ICIJ Offshore Leaks 810K+ entities from 5 leak investigations None
OpenSanctions 320+ sanctions lists, PEP databases, enforcement records API key
GLEIF LEI Registry Global corporate identifiers + ownership chains None
SEC EDGAR US public company filings, 10-K/10-Q/8-K/DEF 14A, amendments User-Agent only
UK Companies House UK company records, officers, PSC, insolvency, disqualifications Free API key
CourtListener US federal court records, opinions, bankruptcy (PACER/RECAP) Free token
OCCRP Aleph Investigative datasets, entity networks, leaked documents Approved account required
UK Land Registry Property transactions, price history, high-value purchases None
Wikidata Structured data on people, companies, political roles None

Skill

One unified skill with modes:

/investigate <name>                          — full cross-reference (default)
/investigate <name> --trace                  — multi-hop network traversal
/investigate <name> --trace --depth 3        — deep network walk (3 hops)
/investigate <name> --patterns               — structural pattern analysis
/investigate <name> --compliance             — rigorous sanctions/PEP screening
/investigate <name> --monitor                — check for new sanctions listings
/investigate <name> --jurisdiction           — jurisdictional footprint
/investigate <name1>, <name2>                — find connections between subjects
/investigate <name1>, <name2>, <name3>, ...  — merged network, find shared links

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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 · 292 lines · 2,820 tokens per session scan A 927f26e762c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sift CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mefos-lab/sift (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,820 tokens to every session, about $0.0141 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.

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