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.
npx agentmods add instructions/smithclay/claudetainer/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smithclay/claudetainerWrote 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/smithclay/claudetainer/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/smithclay/claudetainer/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/smithclay/claudetainer/claude-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00884 | $0.00884 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00442 | $0.00442 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00177 | $0.00177 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00088 | $0.00088 |
Grade A, and why
claudetainer 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
This file provides focused development guidance for Claude Code when working with this repository.
Claudetainer Development
Claudetainer is a devcontainer feature that adds language-specific support to Claude Code through automated hooks, commands, sub-agents, and presets.
See
docs/for complete architecture, installation, and usage documentation
Essential Development Commands
IMPORTANT: ALWAYS run development checks before committing:
make dev # Quick check: lint + test-cli (recommended for regular dev)
make test # Full test suite: CLI + DevContainer features + lifecycle
make check # Comprehensive: lint + test + build (pre-commit)
make lint # Linting: shellcheck + shfmt + scripts + JSON
make fmt # Format all shell scripts
Testing workflow:
# Quick development cycle
./bin/claudetainer --version # Test modular CLI
make dev # Run lint + CLI tests
# Full validation
make test # All tests (CLI + feature + lifecycle)
make build # Build single-file distribution
./dist/claudetainer --version # Test built CLI
YOU MUST run make dev successfully before any commit.
Key Project Structure
Core Files:
bin/claudetainer- Modular CLI development version (143 lines)dist/claudetainer- Built single-file distribution (1,435 lines)build.sh- Build script (modular → single-file)Makefile- Development automation and testingsrc/claudetainer/install.sh- DevContainer feature installation
Important Directories:
bin/lib/- CLI library modules (8 core functions)bin/commands/- CLI command implementationssrc/claudetainer/presets/- Language-specific configurations with sub-agentssrc/claudetainer/multiplexers/- Terminal multiplexer supporttest/claudetainer/- DevContainer feature testsdocs/- Complete documentation
Development Standards
Code Style:
- Use
rginstead ofgrep,fdinstead offind - Graceful degradation when tools missing
- Shell scripts must pass shellcheck and shfmt formatting
- JSON files must be valid
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 118 lines · 884 tokens per session scan A 35bac6ed03da
claudetainer CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository smithclay/claudetainer (107 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 884 tokens to every session, about $0.0044 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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