Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to r5rana/agentware. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r5rana/agentware/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/r5rana/agentwareWrote 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/r5rana/agentware/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/r5rana/agentware/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/r5rana/agentware/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/r5rana/agentware/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/r5rana/agentware/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 5.1 | $0.00624 | $0.00624 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00250 | $0.00250 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00125 | $0.00125 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00062 | $0.00062 |
Grade B, and why
agentware CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.
Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping
Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.
- IF the knowledge dir is unconfigured OR its .initialized sentinel is absent THEN RUN the onboarding skill in .claude/skills/onboarding/SKILL.md before any other work. [R-BOOT-01] How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
agentware — Claude Code project instructions
This is an agentware workspace: a clone-and-go steering framework. This repo holds ONLY generic steering. The operator's knowledge base lives in an EXTERNAL directory chosen at onboarding — nothing personal is ever committed here.
Claude Code auto-loads this file on every session. It pulls in the canonical methodology and steering below via imports, so those rules are always in context.
🔴 Bootstrap gate — check FIRST, before any task
The external knowledge directory is resolved with
scripts/agentware config --knowledge-dir-only. The SessionStart hook prints
an AGENTWARE_STATUS: line each session reporting whether it is initialized.
- IF the knowledge dir is unconfigured OR its .initialized sentinel is absent THEN RUN the onboarding skill in .claude/skills/onboarding/SKILL.md before any other work. [R-BOOT-01]
- IF onboarding completes THEN write the .initialized sentinel (timestamp + handle) in the knowledge dir and resume the original request. [R-BOOT-02]
- IF the knowledge dir is configured AND initialized THEN proceed with the request normally. [R-BOOT-03]
- NEVER create the .initialized sentinel without actually running onboarding. [R-BOOT-04]
- NEVER skip onboarding because the user gave a quick task; run it once, then do the task. [R-BOOT-05]
Canonical methodology (imported, always-on)
@AGENTS.md
Always-on steering (imported)
@steering/common-problems.md @steering/project-context.md
Working in this repo
- The 3-phase loop is
./agentware.sh <feature>(seedocs/loop.md). - The deterministic toolkit is
scripts/agentware— the ONLY writer of the knowledge index. Resolve the external knowledge dir at runtime; never hardcode it. - The roles are two Claude Code subagents in
.claude/agents/:agentware-planner(plan only, never executes) andagentware-execution(implements the loop; the loop's POST phase self-assesses via this agent). - Skills live in
.claude/skills/— the loop skills (onboarding, knowledge-base, self-improvement, ui-verification) plus the 14 authored default skills (6 security, 6 productivity, 2 gap-fillers) catalogued in.claude/skills/README.mdandcatalog/skills.json; manage them withscripts/agentware skill list/search/add/remove/validate. The/agentware-plancommand scaffolds a feature plan. - On failure, follow the failure-handling escalation ladder in
AGENTS.md(R-FAIL-01..08): KB → own reasoning → change inputs → switch approach (after ≤3 tries) → web search. Keep moving; never re-loop a tier.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 624 tokens per session scan B c12446e88861
agentware CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository r5rana/agentware (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 624 tokens to every session, about $0.0025 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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