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.
npx agentmods add instructions/nvlabs/aspire/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVlabs/ASPIREWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nvlabs/aspire/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/nvlabs/aspire/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/nvlabs/aspire/claude-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00404 | $0.00404 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00202 | $0.00202 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00081 | $0.00081 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00040 | $0.00040 |
Grade A, and why
ASPIRE CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Top-Level Agent Guide
Claude Code: Read and follow
AGENTS.mdfirst. It is the repository-wide, model-neutral request-routing and safety contract. This file adds workspace guidance for Claude Code;AGENTS.mdgoverns when the two overlap.
This repository is split into a lightweight project root, a simulation workspace, and a real-robot workspace.
Use aspire/sim as the working root for simulation setup, experiments, configs, scripts, tests, and output inspection. The simulation package lives under aspire/sim/cap and imports as aspire.sim.cap.*.
For simulation work:
cd aspire/sim
export ASPIRE_ROOT="$(pwd)"
export PYTHON_ROOT="$(cd ../.. && pwd)"
Read aspire/sim/CLAUDE.md and aspire/sim/.claude/README.md before running suite-specific agents. Keep simulator setup details in aspire/sim/README.md; the top-level README.md should stay a project overview and pointer map.
For real-robot work:
cd aspire/real
Read aspire/real/AGENTS.md before running or editing YAM workflows. Its skills
live under aspire/real/.agents/skills/; paths and commands in those skills are
relative to aspire/real. Keep real-station procedures separate from the
simulation docs.
Generated-Code Security Boundary
ASPIRE executes language-model-generated Python with full import access. Trial
processes, timeouts, and simulator watchdogs are not a hardened security
sandbox. Treat generated code as untrusted: keep credentials out of worker
environments, use an isolated host or container without sensitive mounts,
restrict network access, and never give generated code physical-hardware access
without review and the operator controls in aspire/real/AGENTS.md.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 42 lines · 404 tokens per session scan A 0db70000ef3b
ASPIRE CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository NVlabs/ASPIRE (127 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 404 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 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.
Other instructions, from other repositories
vscode buildNext.instructions.md
Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).
spec-kit AGENTS.md
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codex AGENTS.md
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vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, applying the notice (cutover) and fallback chain (never fail the build).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
deepseek-harness AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, covering agents.md, pre-stable apis and released session data, repository layout, commands and host sandbox failures.