the-system CLAUDE.md

the-system CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from vedanta/the-system. It costs 7,808 tokens per session, scanned B, original, LGPL-3.0.

An instruction file for Claude Code describing The System framework, its current status, company structure, departments, agents, and founder-advisor role.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to provide background and rules to Claude Code while it works on the vedanta/the-system project.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent project-specific context and operating instructions. The supplied description does not say how the agent uses each part.

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

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for the-system CLAUDE.md

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vedanta/the-system/claude-md.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/vedanta/the-system/claude-md)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/vedanta/the-system/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vedanta/the-system/claude-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 7,808 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 7,808 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.07808 $0.07808
Opus 5 $0.03904 $0.03904
Sonnet 5 $0.01562 $0.01562
Haiku 4.5 $0.00781 $0.00781

Measured yesterday against content hash f18feae0ed25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

the-system CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

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

grep -r "HITL" .claude/
CLAUDE.md · 862 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed LGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed LGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 862 lines · 7,808 tokens per session scan B f18feae0ed25

Subscribe to this mod's changes

the-system CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vedanta/the-system (9 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed LGPL-3.0. It adds 7,808 tokens to every session, about $0.0390 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.