Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. 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/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/master/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agenticWrote 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/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/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/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/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 | $0.05846 | $0.05846 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02338 | $0.02338 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01169 | $0.01169 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00585 | $0.00585 |
Grade A, and why
vanguard-frontier-agentic 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 10d 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 — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Vanguard Frontier Agentic
This repository is a curated marketplace for cloud, zero-trust, and compliance-aware AI workflows. Two things live here: the catalog itself (agents, skills, rules, MCP references, machine-readable indexes) and the tooling that keeps it honest (validation gates, generators, and the vfa-tui Rust terminal UI). Almost every mistake in this repo is caught by a gate — so the working loop is: make the change, run the gates, fix what they say, and never bypass one.
Quick start
npm install # one-time install
pip install jsonschema # one-time; validate:promotion-gatekeeper imports it and fails without it
# ...make catalog/doc changes...
npm run mods:write # if mods changed; regenerate adapters, shared modules and catalog
npm run validate:mods # focused mod contracts and production-core tests
npm run validate # 20+ gates (every validate:* script in package.json — catalog, schema, asset integrity, model policy, routing, marketplace)
npm run lint:spell # codespell — separate CI gate, NOT part of validate
npx --yes markdownlint-cli2 "**/*.md" "#node_modules" # markdown lint — separate CI gate
If you touched tools/vfa-tui, also run its gates (CI's Gate job runs all three and fails the PR independently):
cd tools/vfa-tui
cargo fmt --check && cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings && cargo test
If you touched the catalog (agents/skills/roles/providers), run npm run manifest:write:all then npm run asset-integrity:write last, on its own (see the ordering caveat at the bottom) before npm run validate.
What this repo contains
skills/— reusable workflows for recurring engineering tasksagents/— expert roles with judgment for review, architecture, and operations (each with per-harness variant files underharnesses/)rules/— harness-specific operating guidancemcp/— MCP references and trust-boundary notesmods/— cross-harness tool-event guards and observers;mod.tomlsources, shared core logic and generated adapterscatalog/— machine-readable indexes (agents, skills, model policy/registry/assignments, asset-integrity manifest)schemas/— metadata contractsdocs/— governance, taxonomy, compatibility, and quality guidance (Jekyll site)scripts/— generators and the model-policy engine;tests/— the validation gates behindnpm run validatetools/vfa-tui/— Rust terminal UI over the catalog (see its section below)plugins/,powers/,templates/— harness plugin bundles, Kiro Powers, and contribution templates (generated or scaffolding; regenerate, don't hand-edit generated output).claude/skills/— project skills that codify how to work here (agentic-delegation,model-registry-refresh)
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.
- 10d ago Changed · +26 lines · +469 tokens per session 9d71e4ba51fa
- 1mo ago Changed · +80 tokens per session 7a7bf7e8f162
- 1mo ago Changed · +2 tokens per session 684236145d60
- 1mo ago First seen · 207 lines · 5,295 tokens per session scan A 71108efa0e23
vanguard-frontier-agentic CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 5,846 tokens to every session, about $0.0234 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 2026-08-30.
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