Agents-for-js CLAUDE.md

Repository instructions for Microsoft's JavaScript and TypeScript SDK for building conversational agents across products such as Teams and Microsoft 365. They explain the project layout, its packages, and its npm-workspaces monorepo, which is one repository containing multiple related packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing core agent hosting, activity handling, dialogs, authentication, state management, or platform integrations in this repository.
Why use it?
They help a coding agent understand where code belongs and how the interconnected packages and tests are organised.

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/microsoft/agents-for-js/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Agents-for-js
Per session 2,627 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,627 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 $0.02627 $0.02627
Opus 5 $0.01314 $0.01314
Sonnet 5 $0.00525 $0.00525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00263 $0.00263

Measured 2d ago against content hash 85ee61367b82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Agents-for-js 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 · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

This is the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript (formerly known as BotFramework SDK v5). It provides a comprehensive framework for building enterprise-grade conversational agents that work across M365, Teams, Copilot Studio, Webchat, and other platforms.

The repository is a monorepo using npm workspaces with multiple interconnected packages.

Repository Structure

Core Packages (in packages/)

  • agents-activity: Activity protocol types, validators, and schema definitions using Zod. Replaces botframework-schema.
  • agents-hosting: Core hosting components including ActivityHandler, TurnContext, CloudAdapter, authentication, and state management. Replaces botbuilder.
  • agents-hosting-express: Express.js integration for hosting agents.
  • agents-hosting-fastify: Fastify integration for hosting agents.
  • agents-hosting-dialogs: Dialog system for building conversational flows. Replaces botbuilder-dialogs.
  • agents-hosting-directline-namedpipes: Direct Line transport over named pipes.
  • agents-hosting-extensions-msteams: Teams-specific features (TaskModules, Messaging Extensions).
  • agents-hosting-extensions-slack: Slack-specific integration and extensions.
  • agents-hosting-extensions-teams: Deprecated legacy Teams extension retained for backward compatibility.
  • agents-hosting-storage-blob: Azure Blob Storage adapter. Replaces botbuilder-azure.
  • agents-hosting-storage-cosmos: CosmosDB storage adapter. Replaces botbuilder-azure.
  • agents-copilotstudio-client: Direct-to-Engine client for interacting with Copilot Studio agents.
  • agents-telemetry: Shared telemetry instrumentation for Microsoft 365 Agents SDK packages.

Test Agents (in test-agents/)

Sample agents used for internal testing ("samples"). For learning examples, refer to https://github.com/Microsoft/Agents.

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 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 · 267 lines · 2,627 tokens per session scan A 85ee61367b82

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Agents-for-js CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Agents-for-js (87 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,627 tokens to every session, about $0.0131 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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