Upkeep CLAUDE.md

Repository instructions for Upkeep, an AI auditor that checks for stale documentation, mismatches between specifications and code, orphaned assets, and convention violations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Maintaining Upkeep and running repository audits locally or in CI, with reviewer workflows, summaries, and tracking issues as described by the project.
Why use it?
They explain how the same audit engine runs locally, in GitHub Actions, or through the GitHub Marketplace, including the differences between those entry points.

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/wei18/upkeep/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wei18/Upkeep
Per session 1,113 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,113 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.01113 $0.01113
Opus 5 $0.00557 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00223 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00111 $0.00111

Measured 2d ago against content hash dfa974fc7969, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Upkeep 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 2d 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 · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Upkeep (repo-audit-action)

Local dir is repo-audit-action/; the published name is wei18/upkeep — the mismatch is intentional. Full reference: docs/en/design.md.

What this is

An AI repo auditor that catches drift (stale docs, spec/code mismatch, orphaned assets, convention violations). Pipeline: discovery → parallel reviewers → synthesis → HTML report. Three entry points, one engine:

  • CI: reusable workflow .github/workflows/audit.yml (on: workflow_call) + composite actions under .github/actions/. Runs on the caller's checkout; Upkeep's code arrives via uses: wei18/upkeep/.github/actions/<x>@<tag>. Each reviewer is an independent matrix job. Upserts one tracking issue.
  • Marketplace: root action.yml, a composite action for the conventional - uses: wei18/upkeep@<tag> step syntax and a GitHub Marketplace listing. Same engine and inputs as the reusable workflow, but runs as a single job so reviewers execute sequentially instead of in parallel.
  • Local: scripts/local-audit.sh <target> — same flow, claude -p subprocesses, temp-dir intermediates via --add-dir. Never creates issues; prints the summary instead. skills/upkeep-audit/SKILL.md is a thin wrapper (clones engine to ~/.cache/upkeep, runs script, summarizes). The CI workflow does not route through the skill.

Hard invariants

  • Output-only: never edit or delete anything in the audited repo. No exceptions.
  • No presumed ground truth: report divergence with evidence; don't assume code > docs or vice versa.
  • Workflow interface (with: inputs, secrets, permissions) is a public contract — changes need a major version.

Plugin / skill distribution

Three install paths, all pointing at skills/upkeep-audit/ (do not move it):

  1. Claude Code plugin: .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (marketplace upkeep) → plugin upkeep, single-skill layout (SKILL.md at plugin root) → invocation /upkeep:upkeep-audit. The plugin version is pinned in two files that must stay in lockstep — bump both on skill changes: skills/upkeep-audit/.claude-plugin/plugin.json and the plugins[].version field in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.
  2. npx skills add wei18/upkeep --skill upkeep-audit — relies on the flat skills/<name>/SKILL.md layout and name+description frontmatter. Don't break either.
  3. Manual copy into ~/.claude/skills/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 49 lines · 1,113 tokens per session scan A dfa974fc7969

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Upkeep CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository wei18/Upkeep (14 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,113 tokens to every session, about $0.0056 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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