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/stacklok/toolhive/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stacklok/toolhiveWhat 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 | $0.01430 | $0.01430 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00715 | $0.00715 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00286 | $0.00286 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00143 | $0.00143 |
Grade A, and why
toolhive 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 yesterday.
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 — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code when working with this repository.
Project Overview
ToolHive is a lightweight, secure manager for MCP (Model Context Protocol: https://modelcontextprotocol.io) servers written in Go. It provides a CLI (thv), a Kubernetes operator (thv-operator), and a proxy runner (thv-proxyrunner) for container-based MCP server isolation.
To understand the system, start with the Architecture Documentation. Begin at the Architecture Overview and Core Concepts, then read the component deep-dives relevant to your task — Deployment Modes, Transport Architecture, Kubernetes Operator, Virtual MCP, and more. The architecture index has a full map and by-topic navigation.
Build and Development Commands
task build # Build the main binary
task install # Install binary to GOPATH/bin
task lint # Run linting
task lint-fix # Fix linting issues (preferred over lint)
task test # Unit tests (excluding e2e)
task test-e2e # E2E tests (requires build first)
task test-all # All tests (unit + e2e)
task test-coverage # Tests with coverage analysis
task gen # Generate mocks
task docs # Generate CLI documentation
task build-image # Build container image
task build-all-images # Build all container images
IMPORTANT: Always use task commands. Never run go test, go build, or golangci-lint directly -- the Taskfile has correct flags, exclusions, and environment setup that direct commands miss.
Testing: Ginkgo/Gomega for BDD-style tests. Unit tests for pkg/ business logic; E2E tests for CLI commands.
Available Subagents
Agents are in .claude/agents/ and MUST be invoked for tasks matching their expertise:
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.
- yesterday First seen · 107 lines · 1,430 tokens per session scan A da194a7d4327
toolhive CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository stacklok/toolhive (2,056 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,430 tokens to every session, about $0.0072 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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openclaw-operator CLAUDE.md
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bex CLAUDE.md
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kubara AGENTS.md
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inference-gateway AGENTS.md
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toolhive-registry-server CLAUDE.md
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