polos CLAUDE.md

Developer instructions for Polos, an open-source runtime that runs AI agents and workflows with features such as retries, scheduling, sandboxes, logs, and monitoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand the repository architecture and run or modify the Polos command-line tool, orchestrator, UI, and workers.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a map of the Rust service, web interface, worker SDKs, and local development setup.

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/polos-dev/polos/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/polos-dev/polos
Per session 2,140 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,140 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 $0.02140 $0.02140
Opus 5 $0.01070 $0.01070
Sonnet 5 $0.00428 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00214 $0.00214

Measured 2d ago against content hash 60ef66d475f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polos 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 · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Polos Developer Guide

Polos is the open-source runtime for AI agents. You write the agent; Polos handles sandboxes, durability, approvals, triggers, and observability.

Docs: https://polos.dev/docs | Repo: https://github.com/polos-dev/polos | Discord: https://discord.gg/ZAxHKMPwFG

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   polos CLI (Rust)                       │
│        Single binary embedding orchestrator + UI        │
├──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┤
│  Orchestrator (Rust) │         UI (React/TS)            │
│  Axum + Tokio        │    Vite + Tailwind + Shadcn      │
│  PostgreSQL (SQLx)   │    localhost:5173                 │
│  localhost:8080      │                                   │
├──────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┤
│              Worker (Python or TypeScript SDK)           │
│  Executes agents/workflows, connects to orchestrator    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Orchestrator (orchestrator/) — Core execution engine: durable logs, retries, scheduling, triggers, sandbox management. Rust with Axum, Tokio, SQLx (PostgreSQL).

CLI (server/) — The polos binary. Manages orchestrator and UI processes. Rust with Clap.

UI (ui/) — React 19 dashboard for monitoring agents, workflows, traces. Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn/Radix UI.

Python SDK (sdk/python/) — Agent/workflow definitions, tool system, worker runtime. Pydantic, FastAPI, OpenTelemetry.

TypeScript SDK (sdk/typescript/) — Same capabilities as Python SDK. Fastify, Vercel AI SDK, OpenTelemetry.

Repository Layout

orchestrator/          Rust orchestrator (Axum API server + execution engine)
  migrations/          PostgreSQL migration files (0001–0004)
  src/                 Source code (lib.rs entry point)
  tests/               Integration tests (require DB)
server/                Rust CLI binary (embeds orchestrator + UI at build time)
ui/                    React/TypeScript dashboard
  src/                 Components, pages, hooks, API client
sdk/python/            Python SDK (polos-sdk on PyPI)
  polos/               Package source
  tests/               pytest test suite
sdk/typescript/        TypeScript SDK (@polos/sdk on npm)
  src/                 Package source
  tests/               Test files (*.test.ts)
python-examples/       20+ example agent projects (Python)
typescript-examples/   20+ example agent projects (TypeScript)
create-polos-py/       Python project scaffolder (Click CLI)
create-polos-ts/       TypeScript project scaffolder (Clack prompts)
docs/                  Documentation site (polos.dev)
DESIGN/                Architecture and design documents
scripts/               Build and dev setup scripts

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 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 · 254 lines · 2,140 tokens per session scan A 60ef66d475f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

polos CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository polos-dev/polos (36 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,140 tokens to every session, about $0.0107 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.