postern CLAUDE.md

postern CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from mmartinez/postern. It costs 2,460 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for postern, a proxy that adds stored API credentials to outgoing requests so an AI agent does not need to hold the real secrets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when building, testing, linting, or packaging postern, or when changing how it obtains and adds credentials before forwarding requests.
Why use it?
They describe the container-first development setup and keep credentials, tool versions, and Go-related commands in the intended places.

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/mmartinez/postern/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mmartinez/postern

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Per session 2,460 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,460 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 $0.02460 $0.02460
Opus 5 $0.01230 $0.01230
Sonnet 5 $0.00492 $0.00492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00246 $0.00246

Measured 3d ago against content hash cea31e3230ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

postern 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 · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What postern is

A credential-brokering HTTPS forward proxy for AI agents. The agent calls outbound APIs without auth headers (or with placeholder values); postern matches the request host against YAML-declared broker rules, resolves the rule's credential reference from a pluggable credential provider (1Password Service Accounts, Bitwarden Secrets Manager, OAuth2 token minting), and injects it before forwarding. The agent never holds the real credential.

Apache-2.0 licensed.

Development environment — container-first, non-negotiable

The host needs only Docker, git, and the devcontainer CLI. No Go toolchain on the host. Every Go, lint, test, format, and vuln tool lives inside the devcontainer, version-pinned by .mise.toml.

  • Start the env once: devcontainer up --workspace-folder .
  • Drop into a shell: make shell
  • Anything Go-related goes through make <target>. From the host these wrap devcontainer exec; inside the container they are direct invocations. The Makefile auto-detects which side it's on.
  • Bump tool versions in .mise.toml; the devcontainer reads these pins. CI pins Go/lint/goreleaser/zig separately in each workflow's env — bump both sides when a tool changes.

If a command fails on the host with "command not found", the fix is to run it via make (or inside make shell), not to install the tool globally.

Commands

All Go work runs through make; on the host these wrap devcontainer exec.

  • make shell — interactive shell inside the devcontainer.
  • make build — build dist/postern.
  • make test — full suite with -race and coverage.
  • make lint — golangci-lint.
  • make ci — lint + test + vuln + license check (the core local gate; CI adds platform, format, gitleaks, and snapshot/image jobs on top); run before pushing.
  • make snapshot — local release build (binaries, archives, SBOMs, checksums; no publish/sign).
  • make licenses — regenerate THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md after any dependency change.

Project layout

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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 · 148 lines · 2,460 tokens per session scan A cea31e3230ac

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postern CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mmartinez/postern (10 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,460 tokens to every session, about $0.0123 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.