php-src-developer CLAUDE.md

A set of instructions for using an AI coding assistant to work on PHP itself, the programming language's source code. It organizes bug fixes, prototypes, code reviews, and branch updates around task documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate GitHub issues, reproduce bugs with tests, implement and verify fixes, prototype ideas, review local changes or pull requests, and update a non-main branch.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a defined sequence for researching, testing, changing, and checking PHP core work. This reduces the chance of skipping important steps or losing the task's current state.

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/pronskiy/php-src-developer/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pronskiy/php-src-developer
Per session 1,423 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,423 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 $0.01423 $0.01423
Opus 5 $0.00711 $0.00711
Sonnet 5 $0.00285 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00142 $0.00142

Measured yesterday against content hash a785b2286901, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

php-src-developer 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 yesterday.

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 · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

php-core-developer

Claude Code plugin for developing the PHP language core (php/php-src).

Execution model

One agent (php-core-dev), eight skills, one living document per task. Each step is one slash command run by the user.

Workflow Living doc Skills (run in order)
Bug fix SPEC.md /bug-context <gh-issue>/research/bug-reproduce-test/bug-fix/bug-verify
Upmerge (after a bug fix on a non-master branch) UPMERGE.md /upmerge (dry-run) → /upmerge --execute
Idea prototype SPEC.md /idea-prototype "<one-line hypothesis>" (advances Context → Hypothesis & Metric) → /research (Research phase) → /idea-prototype (Survey & Plan → Prototype → Verdict)
Code review (local) REVIEW.md /review-local [base-ref]
Code review (PR) REVIEW.md /review-pr <pr-number>

/research gating differs by flow:

  • Bug fix: soft-gated. /bug-reproduce-test / /bug-fix / /bug-verify warn if Research is todo but proceed anyway.
  • Idea prototype: hard-gated. /idea-prototype refuses to advance past Hypothesis & Metric until Research is done or explicitly skipped in SPEC.md. Prior-art sweeps catch declined RFCs and abandoned attempts that would otherwise waste a prototype.

Mark the phase skipped in SPEC.md (with reason) to bypass either gate.

SPEC.md is the state

For bug and idea workflows the entire task state lives in SPEC.md in the working directory. It's organised as Phase → Step → Guardrail:

  • A phase is a top-level workflow stage (Context, Reproduction, Analysis & Plan, …).
  • A step is a concrete action with its own status (todo / in-progress / done / skipped / blocked).
  • A guardrail is a pre- or post-condition gated against a step. Pre-guardrail fails → skill refuses to start; post-guardrail fails → step marked blocked.

Each skill on every invocation: read SPEC.md, find the first non-done phase / step, run pre-guardrails, do the work, run post-guardrails, mark done, append one line to the Progress Log. Close the terminal mid-phase; the next slash command resumes from there.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. yesterday First seen · 93 lines · 1,423 tokens per session scan A a785b2286901

Subscribe to this mod's changes

php-src-developer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository pronskiy/php-src-developer (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,423 tokens to every session, about $0.0071 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.

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