agman: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

agman CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from memandip/agman. It costs 1,565 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for agman, a tool that switches complete configuration profiles for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding edits to agman while keeping its configuration switching, shared session state, and required development practices intact.
Why use it?
They tell coding agents what the project does, which constraints to preserve, and how its branch and pull-request workflow works.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is memandip/agman's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on agman 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 agman configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.01565 $0.01565
Opus 5.5 $0.00626 $0.00626
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00313 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00156 $0.00156

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5766c0db46a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agman CLAUDE.md scanned grade A 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **`install.sh`** — curl-pipe installer.
CLAUDE.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — agman

Project-local instructions for AI coding agents working in this repo. These OVERRIDE default behavior. Read before making changes.

What this project is

agman (agent manager) switches complete config profiles for AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI — the way AWS_PROFILE switches AWS accounts. A profile is one config tree per tool under ~/.agman/<name>; agman use <name> activates it by symlinking each tool's real config path (~/.claude, ~/.claude.json, ~/.codex, ~/.gemini) at the profile.

The problem it solves: people keep separate work/personal/client setups (instructions, settings, rules, skills, agents, MCP servers, accounts) but the agent CLIs offer no first-class way to switch between them. Env-var overrides don't generalize — Gemini CLI has no config-dir override at all — so agman switches by symlink, which needs no shell integration and applies to every new session machine-wide, IDE extensions included. Sessions and prompt history are kept in shared state (~/.agman/.state) so claude --resume keeps working across profile switches; only the persona is per-profile.

Architecture — what you're editing

  • bin/agman — the entire program. One pure-bash script, no dependencies.
  • install.sh — curl-pipe installer.
  • tests/run.sh — the test suite. tests/docker-session-*.sh — containerized upgrade/resume tests.
  • docs/ — design.md, roadmap.md, index.html (landing page).
  • .github/workflows/ — ci.yml (tests + shellcheck), homebrew.yml (release → dispatches the tap's bump.yml).

Hard constraints (do not break these)

  1. Bash 3.2 compatible. Stock macOS ships bash 3.2. No associative arrays, no mapfile, no ${var,,}. Parallel indexed arrays are used deliberately — keep that style.
  2. No runtime dependencies. Pure bash + coreutils only. Don't add jq, python, node, etc.
  3. POSIX-portable. Must work on macOS, Linux, WSL, and Git Bash.
  4. Never touch symlinks agman didn't create. The safety model (refusing foreign symlinks, refusing to remove the active profile, backing up originals to the global profile) is load-bearing. Preserve it.
  5. Two version counters, different jobs. AGMAN_VERSION is the release version (semver). LAYOUT_VERSION is the on-disk profile layout — bump it only when the ~/.agman layout changes in a way that needs migration, and add the migration path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +75 tokens per session 5766c0db46a0
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 111 lines · 1,490 tokens per session scan A 92f78bbbaf4f

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agman CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository memandip/agman (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,565 tokens to every session, about $0.0063 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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