What is advisor CLAUDE.md?

Project-specific instructions for Advisor, an agent team built for Claude Code, including commands, testing steps, installation, and Git procedures.

Use them when working on Advisor code, running its tests, regenerating prompt snapshots, installing it locally, or updating it with Git.

They tell an agent how this particular project should be tested, installed, updated, and changed, including several command-specific pitfalls.

How vzwjustin/advisor configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vzwjustin/advisor. 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/vzwjustin/advisor/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vzwjustin/advisor

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 2,361 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,361 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02361	$0.02361
Opus 5.5	$0.00944	$0.00944
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00472	$0.00472
Haiku 4.5	$0.00236	$0.00236

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fd9228698dad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

advisor 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 1mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Advisor — Opus-led Agent Team (Claude Code Native)

Environment & Commands

Running tests

uv run pytest fails with "Failed to spawn: pytest" unless dev extras are installed. Always use: uv sync --extra dev && uv run pytest -x -q

After editing advisor/orchestrate/_prompts/advisor.txt or any prompt builder, regenerate snapshots: ADVISOR_UPDATE_SNAPSHOTS=1 uv run pytest tests/test_prompt_snapshots.py

Local install (two-step)

uv tool install --reinstall --from /Users/justinadams/Downloads/advisor advisor-agent
advisor install   # refreshes SKILL.md + CLAUDE.md nudge

Registry install (post-PyPI publish): UV_NO_CACHE=1 uv tool install --force advisor-agent

Git workflow

Uncommitted changes block rebase/merge every time — always stash first: git stash && git pull --rebase origin main && git stash pop

Advisor pipeline gotchas

SendMessage with a string message requires a summary param or it errors: summary is required when message is a string
Agent model field: only bare aliases (opus, sonnet, haiku) or full IDs (claude-opus-4-8) — mid-form strings like opus-4-8 error (advisor CLI normalizes these automatically)
CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 must be set in env for TeamCreate/TeamDelete/SendMessage

Large files (>800 LOC → 3-fix cap in advisor pipeline)

advisor/__main__.py ~3400–3600 LOC
advisor/rank.py ~1186 LOC
advisor/install.py ~890 LOC
advisor/orchestrate/runner_prompts.py ~813 LOC

Rust port

cargo test accepts only one test-name pattern; cargo test foo bar errors — use single name or no filter.

Two-model team using Claude Code's TeamCreate/Agent/SendMessage. No external API calls. Models configurable via TeamConfig(advisor_model=, runner_model=) — defaults: claude-opus-4-8 / claude-sonnet-4-6. Claude Code's Agent() tool accepts bare aliases (opus, sonnet, haiku) for "always-latest" or full claude-<family>-<version> IDs to pin a specific version; mid-form strings like opus-4-5 are not accepted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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.

1mo ago First seen · 234 lines · 2,361 tokens per session scan A fd9228698dad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

advisor CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vzwjustin/advisor (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,361 tokens to every session, about $0.0094 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.

Claude Code agent-framework ai-agents anthropic claude cli

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

advisor: Instructions file for Claude Code