orchestkit: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

orchestkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from yonatangross/orchestkit. It costs 1,180 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for OrchestKit, a plugin for AI-assisted software development with built-in development practices, security patterns, and quality checks. It defines language, tone, visual, and project-structure rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on OrchestKit to understand where skills, agents, settings, and hooks belong and how responses and changes should be prepared.
Why use it?
It keeps AI-assisted contributions consistent with the project's communication style, source layout, and review requirements.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is yonatangross/orchestkit's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on orchestkit itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything orchestkit configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to yonatangross/orchestkit. 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/yonatangross/orchestkit/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yonatangross/orchestkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 1,180 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01180 $0.01180
Opus 5.5 $0.00472 $0.00472
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00236 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00118 $0.00118

Measured today against content hash e4814a220ae7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orchestkit 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 today.

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 · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Essential context for Claude Code when working on OrchestKit.

Language

Always respond in English. Never Hebrew. No exceptions.

Tone

No sugarcoat. Failed = failed; blocked = blocked. Rule: src/shared/rules/anti-sycophancy.md.

Visuals

ASCII art + 12 semantic emojis for any structured chat answer: status, comparisons, plans, ad-hoc "explain/show me X". Whole session, not just reply 1. Sub-agents do NOT inherit this; restate it in their prompt. Rule: src/rules/visual-style.md. CI lints PR titles+bodies; visual-style-override bypasses.

Project Overview

OrchestKit — Claude Code plugin for AI-assisted development with built-in best practices, security patterns, and quality gates.

For live component counts (skills / agents / hooks / per-session token cost) run claude plugin details ork.

Directory Structure

src/                    ← SOURCE (edit here!)
├── skills/<name>/SKILL.md    # 115 skills (YAML frontmatter + Markdown)
├── agents/<name>.md          # 36 agents (CC 2.1.78 format)
├── settings/<plugin>.settings.json  # Plugin settings (permissions only; CC ignores most keys)
└── hooks/                    # TypeScript hooks (hooks.json + src/ + dist/)
manifests/                    # Plugin definitions (JSON)
plugins/                      # GENERATED by npm run build
scripts/build-plugins.sh      # Assembles plugins/ from src/

Edit src/ and manifests/. plugins/ is regenerated by npm run build, so edits there are overwritten. Stage the regenerated plugins/ diff with your src/ changes, except hooks/dist/ (release-owned, #3578: never commit it); an empty plugins/ means the build was interrupted, so run it again.

Commands

npm run build              # Build plugins from source (required after editing src/)
npm test                   # Run all tests (lint + unit + security + integration + e2e)
npm test --quick           # Fast: skip integration/e2e/performance
npm run test:skills        # Skill structure validation
npm run test:agents        # Agent frontmatter validation
npm run test:security      # Security tests (gates push)
npm run test:manifests     # Manifest consistency (counts, deps, ordering)
npm run typecheck          # TypeScript type checking for hooks
cd src/hooks && npm run build    # Compile TypeScript hooks

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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.

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orchestkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (298 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,180 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 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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