conductor: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

conductor CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from microsoft/conductor. It costs 11 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Microsoft's Conductor repository, including guidance specific to Claude Code. They tell a coding agent how to work within that project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when editing, building or maintaining the Conductor project with Claude Code.
Why use it?
They provide repository-specific context and Claude Code instructions that may not be obvious from the source files alone.

Instructions file for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

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

About the project

Conductor is a command-line tool for defining and running workflows in which multiple AI agents perform connected tasks. Developers use YAML files to create repeatable pipelines for activities such as code review, research and synthesis, or planning and implementation, with routing handled by explicit conditions. The catalogue add-ons provide instructions, skills, plugins, and an agent for working with Conductor.

microsoft/conductor · 476 stars · on GitHub

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 11 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 11 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 $0.00011 $0.00011
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00004
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00002
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00001

Measured 4d ago against content hash 573138e19d33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conductor 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 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.

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 · 4 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

@AGENTS.md

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 Changed · -4 lines · -24 tokens per session 573138e19d33
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 8 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 150443d7e512

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conductor CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/conductor (476 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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