ouroboros CLAUDE.md

ouroboros CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from Q00/ouroboros. It costs 2,007 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of ouroboros AGENTS.md, MIT.

A project instruction file for developing and shipping changes in the Ouroboros environment. It documents the `ooo` commands and the instructions each command activates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Ouroboros locally, especially to handle `ooo` commands, development modes, agents, pull-request boundaries, and release steps.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a shared way to follow the project’s development workflow, including how to run, evaluate, evolve, and ship changes.

Instructions file

About the project

Q00/ouroboros is an Agent OS for running coding agents through interviews, staged evaluation, and repeated improvement cycles. It helps developers turn vague requests into tested code across multiple agent runtimes. Its catalogue add-ons provide workflows, agents, hooks, instructions, and integrations for operating those processes.

Q00/ouroboros · 5,769 stars · on GitHub

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/q00/ouroboros/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros

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Per session 2,007 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,007 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.02007 $0.02007
Opus 5 $0.01004 $0.01004
Sonnet 5 $0.00401 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00201 $0.00201

Measured 5d ago against content hash 20474efae0a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ouroboros 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to ouroboros AGENTS.md — 46 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ouroboros - Development Environment

This CLAUDE.md is for local development only. End users install via:

claude plugin marketplace add Q00/ouroboros
claude plugin install ouroboros@ouroboros

Once installed as a plugin, skills/hooks/agents work natively without this file.

ooo Commands (Dev Mode)

When the user types any of these commands, read the corresponding SKILL.md file and follow its instructions exactly:

Input Action
ooo (bare, no subcommand) Read skills/welcome/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo auto ... Read skills/auto/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo interview ... Read skills/interview/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo seed Read skills/seed/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo run Read skills/run/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo evaluate or ooo eval Read skills/evaluate/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo evolve ... Read skills/evolve/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo unstuck or ooo stuck or ooo lateral Read skills/unstuck/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo status or ooo drift Read skills/status/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo ralph Read skills/ralph/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo tutorial Read skills/tutorial/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo setup Read skills/setup/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo welcome Read skills/welcome/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo cancel Read skills/cancel/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo config Read skills/config/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo qa or ooo qa ... Read skills/qa/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo help Read skills/help/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo update Read skills/update/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo pm or ooo pm ... Read skills/pm/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo brownfield or ooo brownfield ... Read skills/brownfield/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo publish or ooo publish ... Read skills/publish/SKILL.md and follow it
ooo resume-session Read skills/resume-session/SKILL.md and follow it

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 5d ago First seen · 157 lines · 2,007 tokens per session scan A 20474efae0a3

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ouroboros CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Q00/ouroboros (5,769 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 2,007 tokens to every session, about $0.0100 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to ouroboros AGENTS.md, differing in 46 lines, and is treated as a copy.