cloclo AGENTS.md

Project instructions for cloclo, an open-source alternative to Claude Code that runs as a command-line coding agent with different AI providers. They explain where its editable source lives and how the shipped program is built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing cloclo, adding tools or provider support, changing the agent loop, rebuilding the bundled runtime, or running the project's checks.
Why use it?
They help an agent avoid changing generated output directly and keep the core logic independent of any one AI provider. This makes normal feature and bug work follow the repository's intended structure.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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/seifbenayed/cloclo/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SeifBenayed/cloclo

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,050 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,050 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 $0.01050 $0.01050
Opus 5 $0.00525 $0.00525
Sonnet 5 $0.00210 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00105 $0.00105

Measured 2d ago against content hash a57f054e1812, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloclo AGENTS.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 2d 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.

AGENTS.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cloclo — Project Conventions

Project

cloclo is an open-source Claude Code alternative: a multi-provider AI coding agent CLI. The shipped runtime is claude-native.mjs, a bundled single-file Node.js CLI with zero native dependencies. The editable source lives in src/. Supporting parity/reference implementations exist in claude-native.py, claude-native.go, and rust-sdk/.

Architecture

  • CRITICAL: claude-native.mjs is a build output. Do not edit it directly for normal feature or bug work. Make source changes in src/, then rebuild claude-native.mjs with node build.mjs.
  • Main source modules live in src/ (utils.mjs, config.mjs, providers.mjs, auth.mjs, security-rules.mjs, security.mjs, browser.mjs, tools.mjs, lsp.mjs, auto-memory.mjs, audit.mjs, teams.mjs, sandbox.mjs, context-refs.mjs, smart-routing.mjs, cron.mjs, engine.mjs, session.mjs, index.mjs). Start there before touching bundled output.
  • Keep core agent logic provider-agnostic. Provider differences belong in the PROVIDERS contract and client conversion layers, not in AgentLoop.
  • Built-in tools are registered through ToolRegistry; some tools are eager, others deferred and surfaced via ToolSearch.
  • Extensibility features are built into the main CLI: CLAUDE.md loading, .claude/settings*.json, rules, skills, hooks, memory, sessions, and MCP integration.
  • ink-ui.mjs contains the Ink terminal UI; avoid coupling UI-only behavior into non-interactive/NDJSON paths.
  • claude-tool-loop.js is the NDJSON bridge/runtime wrapper; keep bridge-specific behavior there rather than in provider code.
  • gstack/ is a separate subtree with its own docs/conventions; do not assume its patterns apply to the root CLI unless files explicitly integrate.

Key Patterns

  • Preserve the single-file distribution model for the main CLI unless a change explicitly requires otherwise.
  • When adding a provider, implement the full provider contract: detection, auth/base URL resolution, model transform, client creation, and capabilities.
  • Respect instruction-placement differences by provider (system-blocks, system-message, developer-message, instructions-field).
  • Keep deferred tools marked as deferred; register ToolSearch when deferred tools exist.
  • Maintain backward-compatible CLI behavior and help text for user-facing flags where possible.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 2d ago First seen · 53 lines · 1,050 tokens per session scan A a57f054e1812

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cloclo AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository SeifBenayed/cloclo (114 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,050 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 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 2026-08-30.

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