keystone CLAUDE.md

keystone CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from tacoda/keystone. It costs 1,036 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for Claude Code, a coding agent, describing Keystone's Go codebase, layout, commands, integrations, and release process.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for orienting Claude Code during development, command changes, MCP work, configuration, scaffolding, and releases.
Why use it?
It gives the agent the repository context needed to place changes correctly and follow the project's implementation conventions.

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/tacoda/keystone/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tacoda/keystone

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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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 $0.01036 $0.01036
Opus 5 $0.00518 $0.00518
Sonnet 5 $0.00207 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00104 $0.00104

Measured yesterday against content hash bedc6da9c543, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

keystone 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 · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Keystone — the agent charter framework

Stack

  • Go 1.22+ (1.25 in mise). Single binary, single module.
  • CLI: Cobra (cmd/keystone/). Subcommands wired in root.go.
  • MCP server: mark3labs/mcp-go (internal/framework/mcp/).
  • YAML: gopkg.in/yaml.v3. One YAML parser, period (see guides/idioms/go/stdlib-first).
  • Templates: go:embed under internal/framework/scaffold/templates/.
  • Release: GoReleaser via tag push (no gh release create — see memory).

Layout

cmd/keystone/         — CLI entrypoint + every subcommand (one file each)
internal/framework/   — agent-agnostic core
  primitive/          — descriptor parse, walk, index, projection
  config/             — keystone.json (ProjectConfig + HookSpec)
  loader/             — policy cascade + verify
  policies/           — vendored policy resolver
  lockfile/           — install state
  manifest/           — policy manifest schema
  migrations/         — version-to-version upgrade steps
  scaffold/           — keystone init / bootstrap templates
  sensors/            — sensor runner registry (keystone-owned sensors only)
  adapters/           — per-host projection (claudecode, cursor, …)
  mcp/                — MCP server
  web/                — local dashboard
.charter/    — this project's own charter (dogfood)
.claude/              — projected from .charter/ — do not hand-edit

Common commands

go build ./cmd/keystone        # build the CLI
go install ./cmd/keystone      # install on PATH (refresh after every Frontmatter or CLI change — hooks call the installed binary)
go test ./...                  # all tests
go vet ./...                   # static check (must pass before commit)
keystone index                 # regenerate .charter/INDEX*.json
keystone project               # regenerate .claude/* + merge hooks into settings
keystone watch                 # long-running: re-project on every guide/sensor/agent save (300ms debounce)
keystone verify                # policy + cascade check (auto-fires pre/post-verify hooks)
keystone signal fire <name>    # dispatch primitives subscribed (on:) to a signal (hook fire = alias)

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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 · 82 lines · 1,036 tokens per session scan A bedc6da9c543

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keystone CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tacoda/keystone (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,036 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 2026-09-03.

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