What is agent-vault CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for agent-vault, a project that stores reusable Claude guidance and templates used when creating new projects.

Use them when editing scaffold files, changing project-generation behavior, reviewing pull requests, or preparing GitHub issues and comments with the required attribution.

They keep reusable defaults separate from project-specific context and ensure generated projects follow the expected contribution and GitHub-posting rules.

agent-vault CLAUDE.md — Instructions file by ssheld

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/ssheld/agent-vault/claude-md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ssheld/agent-vault

Per session 451 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 451 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00451	$0.00451
Opus 5	$0.00226	$0.00226
Sonnet 5	$0.00090	$0.00090
Haiku 4.5	$0.00045	$0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash fe9dca20e87f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-vault 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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agent-vault GEMINI.md — 98% identical, 2 lines differ

CLAUDE.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

Purpose

This repository holds reusable scaffold files for agent-vault/.

Rules

Edit scaffold/agent-vault/ for defaults used in future project initialization.
Do not store project-specific context in this repository.
Generate project context only via scripts/new-project.sh.
When updating generated-project behavior, modify scaffold files and script templates together.

PR Authoring

For agent-authored pull requests in generated projects, follow scaffold/agent-vault/AGENTS.md section PR Authoring Standards.
Use .github/pull_request_template.md when present.

GitHub Post Attribution

For GitHub issues, issue comments, and non-review PR conversation comments, begin the body with:

> 🤖 **Post by {Model Name}** · via {Client Tool}

Use your actual model name/version when known. If the exact version is unavailable, use the best identifier you have.
If the post is specifically PR review feedback or a PR review-feedback response, use the review-policy format instead.
Never present GitHub posts as if they are the human account owner's personal opinion.
Prefer repo-relative paths or GitHub links over local filesystem paths in GitHub posts.

@scaffold/agent-vault/review-policy.md

Target Project Usage

In generated project vaults:

agent-vault/Templates/ is template source only. Instantiated notes belong in canonical runtime files under agent-vault/.
Start substantive work by reading agent-vault/README.md, agent-vault/context-log.md, agent-vault/plan.md, and agent-vault/coding-standards.md.
Skim agent-vault/open-questions.md for blockers and agent-vault/decision-log.md for active decisions relevant to the task.
Use agent-vault/context-log.md as canonical cross-session memory.
Use agent-vault/daily/, agent-vault/design-log/, agent-vault/context/handoffs/, and agent-vault/decisions/ for runtime artifacts when the workflow calls for them.

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.

2d ago First seen · 37 lines · 451 tokens per session scan A fe9dca20e87f

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agent-vault CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ssheld/agent-vault (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 451 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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 2026-08-31.

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