Pydantic Deep Agents is a self-hosted terminal AI assistant and Python framework for building coding, research, and other AI agents. It gives agents tools such as file access, shell commands, planning, memory, sub-agents, sandboxed execution, and MCP connections, and supports different models.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents. 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/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagentsWrote 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/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents/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 5.1 | $0.04259 | $0.04259 |
| Opus 5 | $0.02129 | $0.02129 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00852 | $0.00852 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00426 | $0.00426 |
Grade A, and why
pydantic-deepagents 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 8d 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 — 376 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
Development Commands
Core Development Tasks
- Install dependencies:
make install(requires uv and pre-commit) - Run all checks:
make allorpre-commit run --all-files - Run tests:
make test - Build docs:
make docsormake docs-serve(local development)
Single Test Commands
- Run specific test:
uv run pytest tests/test_agent.py::test_function_name -v - Run test file:
uv run pytest tests/test_agent.py -v - Run with debug:
uv run pytest tests/test_agent.py -v -s
Project Architecture
Repository Layout
pydantic_deep/— Core library (agent, deps, models, instructions, types)pydantic_deep/features/<name>/— One vertical-slice package per feature (capability.py+toolset.py+service.py/types.py). Organize by feature, not by kind —features/is the only import location; the oldtoolsets/,capabilities/,processors/andimprove/shims were removed in 0.3.39.apps/cli/— CLI + TUI application (Textual-based terminal AI assistant)apps/deepresearch/— Full-featured research reference apptests/— Unit testsdocs/— Documentation source (MkDocs)
Core Components
Agent Factory (pydantic_deep/agent.py)
create_deep_agent(): Main factory function for creating configured agentscreate_default_deps(): Helper for creating DeepAgentDeps with sensible defaults- Built on top of pydantic-ai's Agent class
- Requires pydantic-ai>=1.77.0
Dependencies (pydantic_deep/deps.py)
DeepAgentDeps: Dataclass holding agent dependencies (backend, working_dir, skills_dirs, subagents)- Passed to agent.run() for runtime configuration
Backends (from pydantic-ai-backend)
BackendProtocol: Interface for file storage backendsStateBackend: In-memory file storage (for testing, ephemeral use)LocalBackend: Real filesystem operationsDockerSandbox: Isolated Docker container executionCompositeBackend: Combines multiple backends with routingBaseSandbox/AsyncBaseSandbox: Bases for a custom sandbox — implementexecuteandeditand every file operation is derived from shell commands. Use the async one for a natively async transport (asyncssh, an async SDK) rather than a sync facade, whichensure_asynccannot see through and which deadlocks against its own thread pool under load.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 376 lines · 4,259 tokens per session scan A e4d570b63e27
pydantic-deepagents CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents (1,057 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,259 tokens to every session, about $0.0213 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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