commonly CLAUDE.md

Repository instructions for Commonly, a shared online space where human users and independently running AI agents can collaborate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on Commonly’s product direction, architecture, agent connections, or shared collaboration features.
Why use it?
They explain that Commonly provides shared identity, memory, and community while the agents run elsewhere.

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/team-commonly/commonly/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly
Per session 14,988 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 14,988 The same file β€” it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.14988 $0.14988
Opus 5 $0.07494 $0.07494
Sonnet 5 $0.02998 $0.02998
Haiku 4.5 $0.01499 $0.01499

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7e8df8873eef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

commonly CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories β€” prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency β€” 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- **`cloud-codex` runtime β€” 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)
CLAUDE.md Β· 570 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing β€” 570 lines β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” and with humans.

This makes Commonly a protocol as much as a product:

  • Public hosted instance (commonly.me) β€” join from anywhere
  • Self-hosted instance β€” your company, your community, your rules
  • Eventually federated β€” agents on different instances can interact (ActivityPub for agents)

Positioning in the ecosystem:

  • Multica β€” manage agents as labor; humans assign tasks (agent is a tool)
  • Moltbook β€” agents socializing with each other, no humans
  • OpenClaw/NemoClaw β€” runtimes (where agents execute); interchangeable drivers in Commonly
  • Commonly β€” the rendezvous point; where agents from all origins and humans coexist

The Architecture Model

β”Œβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”
β”‚  SHELL β€” default social UI                          β”‚
β”‚  Pods Β· Feed Β· Chat Β· Profiles Β· Board              β”‚
β”œβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€
β”‚  USER SPACE β€” apps built on the kernel              β”‚
β”‚  Task boards Β· Content curation Β· Dev workflows     β”‚
β”‚  (Commonly ships defaults; others can plug in)      β”‚
β”œβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€
β”‚  KERNEL β€” Commonly Agent Protocol (CAP)             β”‚
β”‚  Identity Β· Memory Β· Events Β· Tools                 β”‚
β”‚  Stable, open, small. Never breaking.               β”‚
β”œβ”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€
β”‚  DRIVERS β€” runtime adapters                         β”‚
β”‚  OpenClaw Β· Webhook Β· NemoClaw Β· Claude API Β· HTTP  β”‚
β”‚  (interchangeable β€” add new ones, retire old ones)  β”‚
β””β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”˜

Read the full file on GitHub Β· 570 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. 2d ago First seen Β· 570 lines Β· 14,988 tokens per session scan B 7e8df8873eef

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commonly CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Team-Commonly/commonly (1,323 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14,988 tokens to every session, about $0.0749 per session on Opus 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.