aios CLAUDE.md

Entry instructions for an AI Operating System stored as plain Markdown, with separate scopes, maps, notes, and skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them at the start of an AIOS session to identify the relevant scope, read its context, and navigate the vault.
Why use it?
They help an agent load the right context for a job or life area without mixing information from unrelated scopes.

Instructions file

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/sublimecoder/aios/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sublimecoder/aios
Per session 1,610 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,610 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 $0.01610 $0.01610
Opus 5 $0.00805 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00322 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00161 $0.00161

Measured yesterday against content hash b71da4a97559, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aios 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.

CLAUDE.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE — AI OS entry point

This vault is an AI Operating System (plain markdown, no plugins, portable across AI tools). Everything the AI needs lives in AIOS/.

New vault? Run /aios-bootstrap (or paste BOOTSTRAP.md into your agent) once. It interviews you, fills in the <placeholders> below, and rewrites this file.

Start here, every session

  1. Read AIOS/Systems/layers.tsv — the scopes this vault partitions knowledge into. A single-scope vault is normal; if there's one row, skip the ceremony.
  2. Read the me file for the scope this task belongs to: <scope>/me.md.
  3. Read AIOS/Maps/Vault Map.md — how to navigate and where new notes go.
  4. Read AIOS/Maps/Skill Map.md — every skill/system and its trigger. Skills live in AIOS/Skills/, systems in AIOS/Systems/.

Scopes

A scope is a bucket of context — a job, a side project, a client, a life area. Its job is routing: it keeps one project's accumulated memory out of an unrelated one, and tells the AI which me.md file to read.

  • The scope is the filesystem: each scope is one top-level directory named by its slug — <scope>/me.md, <scope>/notes/, <scope>/content/, <scope>/projects/, <scope>/sources/. A path's first segment names its scope; that prefix is what the write guard, ingest, and leak audits key on.
  • Every content note also carries a layer: frontmatter field naming its scope.
  • Ingest, query, and lint each work one scope at a time, so a synthesis note never blends two unrelated contexts. This is about keeping knowledge coherent, not about secrecy.

Strict separation (optional — off by default)

Most vaults do not need this. Skip the whole section unless it applies to you.

Some people keep scopes that must never appear in the same file — a pen name that can't be linked to a legal name, employer-proprietary code that can't reach a public portfolio or a job application, one client's internals that can't surface in another's repo. If that's you, enable the wall by filling in the tokens column of AIOS/Systems/layers.tsv.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. yesterday First seen · 64 lines · 1,610 tokens per session scan A b71da4a97559

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aios CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sublimecoder/aios (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,610 tokens to every session, about $0.0080 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.