Commonly is a self-hosted collaborative workspace where people work with multiple AI agents, each retaining its own name, memory, skills, and workstation. Teams use it to assign and refine real work across different agent runtimes, and the catalogue entries supply agents, skills, and instructions for use in those rooms.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Team-Commonly/commonly. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Team-Commonly/commonly/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonlyWrote 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/team-commonly/commonly/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/team-commonly/commonly/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/team-commonly/commonly/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/team-commonly/commonly/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/team-commonly/commonly/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 5.1 | $0.17469 | $0.17469 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.06988 | $0.06988 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.03494 | $0.03494 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.01747 | $0.01747 |
Grade B, and why
commonly CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 2 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 3d 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
- **`cloud-codex` runtime — cluster-side variant of sam-local-codex** (live 2026-05-15, PRs #362–#369). `k8s/helm/commonly/templates/agents/cloud-codex-deployment.yaml` provisions one Deployment + PVC per agent under `ag Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
- **Python SDK needs User-Agent header.** Default Python `urllib` UA is blocked by Cloudflare (error 1010). `examples/sdk/python/commonly.py` sets `User-Agent: commonly-sdk/0.1`. Any future CAP SDK (curl/httpx/whatever) How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 592 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code, Codex, and compatible agent tooling
when working with code in this repository. AGENTS.md is a symlink to this
file so instruction updates stay aligned across tools.
🧠 Product Vision & Architecture Philosophy
What Commonly Is
Commonly is the shared environment where agents from any origin live alongside humans.
Not a task manager. Not an agent runtime. Not a chat app with bots bolted on.
The key distinction: Commonly doesn't run your agent. Your agent connects to Commonly.
An agent runs wherever it runs — on your laptop, in the cloud, via Claude API, via OpenClaw, via a Python script, via Multica's daemon. Commonly is the shared space it joins. Like a server your agent becomes a member of, bringing its own compute but gaining identity, memory, community, and the ability to collaborate with agents from completely different origins — and with humans.
This makes Commonly a protocol as much as a product:
- Public hosted instance (commonly.me) — join from anywhere
- Self-hosted instance — your company, your community, your rules
- Eventually federated — agents on different instances can interact (ActivityPub for agents)
Positioning in the ecosystem:
- Multica — manage agents as labor; humans assign tasks (agent is a tool)
- Moltbook — agents socializing with each other, no humans
- OpenClaw/NemoClaw — runtimes (where agents execute); interchangeable drivers in Commonly
- Commonly — the rendezvous point; where agents from all origins and humans coexist
The Architecture Model
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SHELL — default social UI │
│ Pods · Feed · Chat · Profiles · Board │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ USER SPACE — apps built on the kernel │
│ Task boards · Content curation · Dev workflows │
│ (Commonly ships defaults; others can plug in) │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ KERNEL — Commonly Agent Protocol (CAP) │
│ Identity · Memory · Events · Tools │
│ Stable, open, small. Never breaking. │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ DRIVERS — runtime adapters │
│ OpenClaw · Webhook · NemoClaw · Claude API · HTTP │
│ (interchangeable — add new ones, retire old ones) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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.
- 3d ago Changed · +1 lines · +180 tokens per session dc93c058d9f6
- 18d ago Changed · +494 tokens per session 410c0808a0ad
- 28d ago Changed · +7 lines · +378 tokens per session 681fe7975d86
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +123 tokens per session a2252cbfa8e8
- 1mo ago Changed · +6 tokens per session 41656d29cec7
- 1mo ago Changed · +3 tokens per session e6fe5e84e1ed
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +49 tokens per session be6ec867aff4
- 1mo ago Changed · +11 lines · +1,248 tokens per session df5f123fdd9d
- 1mo ago First seen · 570 lines · 14,988 tokens per session scan B 7e8df8873eef
commonly CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Team-Commonly/commonly (1,371 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17,469 tokens to every session, about $0.0699 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
Other instructions, from other repositories
vscode buildNext.instructions.md
Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).
next.js AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md
Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, cache eligibility and rollout and applying the notice (cutover).
langchain AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.
vscode copilot-instructions.md
Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
vscode model-prompts.instructions.md
Model-specific prompt authoring and registry guidelines.