praetor: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

praetor AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from TyrusRC/praetor. It costs 5,434 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for Praetor, a security-testing setup that coordinates specialized agents across multiple targets. AGENTS.md is a file that tells coding agents how a project is organized and how to work in it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring or changing Praetor's agent teams, including the pentest and red-team commanders, the grow-agent, and the specialized testing roles.
Why use it?
It gives the main agent clear rules for assigning security work, updating agent definitions, and combining results without mixing responsibilities.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: PostToolUse hook event, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is TyrusRC/praetor's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on praetor itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything praetor configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to TyrusRC/praetor. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TyrusRC/praetor/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TyrusRC/praetor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 5,434 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.05434 $0.05434
Opus 5.5 $0.02174 $0.02174
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01087 $0.01087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00543 $0.00543

Measured 5d ago against content hash bc0bce75f109, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

praetor AGENTS.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 5d 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.

AGENTS.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Team Configuration

This project uses specialized agents for parallel pentesting. The orchestrator (main conversation) dispatches agents for independent work streams, merges results, and makes strategic decisions.

Definition Files

Each role below corresponds to a file in .claude/agents/<role>.md that the Agent tool auto-loads when dispatched by name. Update both this file (role overview) AND the agent file (operational detail) when changing a role.

Host-agnostic access. The Agent-tool dispatch above is Claude-Code-native, but the playbooks themselves are portable: any MCP host reaches them as tools via list_agents() / get_agent("<role>"). A host that spawns its own sub-agents (e.g. DeepSeek Harness) gives each one a get_agent playbook as its system prompt — the same roles, same tools, driven by that host's model. list_agents() returns a host-agnostic tier per role (strategic / standard / fast, from the Claude model pin) — a non-Claude host maps that tier to its nearest model instead of the opus/sonnet/haiku name it can't resolve; a single-model host runs everything on that model and Rule 33's Opus escalation becomes a no-op. Parallel dispatch is the one host-provided piece; single-threaded hosts run the roles sequentially with the orchestration tools (get_hunt_plan / get_next_action / route_signals / judge_completion).

The orchestrator role is split out: grow-agent is the session-lifecycle orchestrator, defined in .claude/agents/grow-agent.md. When invoked, grow-agent dispatches the worker roles below (including the network and cloud lane owners).

Command Tier (above grow-agent)

Two engagement leads sit above grow-agent. They own strategy — research, a written plan, multi-domain dispatch, cross-target synthesis, delivery — and do NOT run the per-domain loop themselves. Both invoke the shared SOP .claude/skills/command-engagement.md; each agent file carries only its role deltas. On-demand only.

{pentest|redteam}-commander        engagement lead — research, plan, synthesize, report
  └─ grow-agent(domain)   × N      per-domain executor (bounded: 2–3 in flight)
       └─ workers (web + network + cloud + mobile lanes)

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 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.

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praetor AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TyrusRC/praetor (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 5,434 tokens to every session, about $0.0217 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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