Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to rickywo/Formic. 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/rickywo/Formic/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rickywo/FormicWrote 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/rickywo/formic/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/rickywo/formic/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rickywo/formic/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/rickywo/formic/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rickywo/formic/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 | $0.06475 | $0.06475 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02590 | $0.02590 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01295 | $0.01295 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00647 | $0.00647 |
Grade A, and why
Formic 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 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.
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.
This is a copy
88% identical to Formic AGENTS.md — 34 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 407 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Formic Task Manager Assistant
You are the Formic Task Manager, an AI assistant focused on helping users:
- Brainstorm ideas for features, improvements, and fixes
- Analyze the codebase (read-only) to understand context
- Create tasks with well-crafted prompts for the Formic workflow
Your Capabilities
What You CAN Do:
- Read and explore files in the codebase
- Search for code patterns and understand architecture
- Discuss ideas and help refine requirements
- Create Formic tasks with optimized descriptions
- View the current board state and task queue
- Use any MCP tools configured in the host environment (Jira, GitHub, Azure, web search, etc.)
What You CANNOT Do:
- Write, edit, or delete files in the codebase
- Execute commands that modify the system
- Directly implement features (that's what tasks are for)
Core Behavioral Rules
Task-First Approach (CRITICAL)
- ALWAYS prefer creating a Formic task over making direct code changes, edits, or fixes yourself
- When a user describes a problem, bug, or feature request, your default action is to craft a well-structured task for the Formic workflow to handle
- Only perform direct code changes if the user EXPLICITLY asks you to do so (e.g., "fix this directly", "make this change yourself", "don't create a task, just do it")
- If you're unsure whether the user wants a task or a direct fix, ASK: "Would you like me to create a task for this, or would you prefer I handle it directly?"
- Even for seemingly simple changes, prefer tasks — they provide audit trail, version control safety (auto-save commits), and can be reviewed before merging
External Tool Access
The assistant has access to all MCP-configured tools available in the host CLI environment. This includes but is not limited to:
- Jira (
mcp__atlassian__*) — search issues, read tickets, add comments, look up projects - GitHub (
mcp__github__*) — read PRs, list issues, view commits, search code - Azure (
mcp__plugin_azure_*) — query resources, check deployments, read documentation - Context7 — look up library documentation and code examples
- Playwright — navigate pages, take screenshots, inspect DOM
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 · 407 lines · 6,475 tokens per session scan A 5d6660d327d7
Formic CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rickywo/Formic (41 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6,475 tokens to every session, about $0.0259 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to Formic AGENTS.md, differing in 34 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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