Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to schmidthole/serf. 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/schmidthole/serf/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/schmidthole/serfWrote 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/schmidthole/serf/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/schmidthole/serf/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/schmidthole/serf/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/schmidthole/serf/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/schmidthole/serf/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 | $0.00257 | $0.00257 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00103 | $0.00103 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00051 | $0.00051 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00026 | $0.00026 |
Grade A, and why
serf 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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
Serf
Serf is a Claude Code plugin providing a spec-driven development framework. See README.md for an overview and user-guide.md for the full workflow.
Project Structure
This repo is a Claude Code plugin. It contains no application code — only skills, conventions, and documentation.
.claude-plugin/— plugin manifest and marketplace configskills/— Claude Code skills (/serf:spec-*commands)skills/development-workflow.md— shared reference document used by all skillsuser-guide.md— human-readable walkthrough of the workflow
Development
- all skills live in
skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md - shared conventions live in
skills/development-workflow.mdand are linked from each skill via a## referencesection - when updating workflow conventions, edit
development-workflow.md— do not duplicate the content into individual skills - keep skills minimal and action-oriented — they are instructions, not documentation
user-guide.mdis the human-facing equivalent of the skills — keep it in sync when skills change- test plugin changes locally with
claude --plugin-dir .
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 257 tokens per session scan A 34a347992145
serf CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository schmidthole/serf (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 257 tokens to every session, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).
next.js AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.
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Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
vscode copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
deepseek-harness AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness, covering agents.md, pre-stable apis and released session data, repository layout, commands and host sandbox failures.