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/tobi/qmd/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tobi/qmdWrote 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/tobi/qmd/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tobi/qmd/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tobi/qmd/claude-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.01727 | $0.01727 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00864 | $0.00864 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00345 | $0.00345 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00173 | $0.00173 |
Grade A, and why
qmd 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 4d 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.
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 — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
QMD - Query Markup Documents
Use Bun instead of Node.js (bun not node, bun install not npm install).
Commands
qmd collection add . --name <n> # Create/index collection
qmd collection list # List all collections with details
qmd collection remove <name> # Remove a collection by name
qmd collection rename <old> <new> # Rename a collection
qmd init # Create a project-local .qmd index
qmd ls [collection[/path]] # List collections or files in a collection
qmd context add [path] "text" # Add context for path (defaults to current dir)
qmd context list # List all contexts
qmd context check # Check for collections/paths missing context
qmd context rm <path> # Remove context
qmd get <file>[:from[:count]] # Get by path or docid (#abc123); optional line range
qmd multi-get <pattern> # Get multiple docs by glob or comma-separated list
qmd status # Show index status and collections
qmd doctor # Diagnose config, index, model, and device issues
qmd update # Re-index collections; configured update hooks run first
qmd trust [list|revoke] # Approve a checked-in .qmd config's hooks/paths/models
qmd embed # Generate vector embeddings (uses node-llama-cpp)
qmd query <query> # Search with query expansion + reranking (recommended)
qmd search <query> # Full-text keyword search (BM25, no LLM)
qmd vsearch <query> # Vector similarity search (no reranking)
qmd bench <fixture.json> # Run search-quality benchmarks
qmd mcp # Start MCP server (stdio transport)
qmd mcp --http [--port N] # Start MCP server (HTTP, default port 8181)
qmd mcp --http --daemon # Start as background daemon
qmd mcp stop # Stop background MCP daemon
Collection Management
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 186 lines · 1,727 tokens per session scan A 578a832b0b17
qmd CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tobi/qmd (29,494 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,727 tokens to every session, about $0.0086 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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