kitaru-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

kitaru-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from zenml-io/kitaru-skills. It costs 653 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Contributor instructions for kitaru-skills, a repository that distributes reusable skills and plugin packaging for Claude Code. Its skills guide agent-session review, evaluation, replay experiments, and integrations with other tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Editing skills, testing them locally in Claude Code, building adapters or importers, and preparing plugin releases.
Why use it?
They explain what each skill does, where its files live, and how to test, branch, and release changes without losing the package structure.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is zenml-io/kitaru-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kitaru-skills 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 kitaru-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zenml-io/kitaru-skills. 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/zenml-io/kitaru-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zenml-io/kitaru-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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 5.1 $0.00653 $0.00653
Opus 5.5 $0.00261 $0.00261
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00131 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00065 $0.00065

Measured 1mo ago against content hash edcc3619a8f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kitaru-skills 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 · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Shared contributor guidance lives in AGENTS.md. Follow it first for contributor scope, validation, accuracy, distribution, and release rules.

Claude Code invocation

Claude Code exposes the skills as /kitaru-hosted-onboarding-tour, /kitaru-guided-tour, /kitaru-investigation, /kitaru-validate-evaluator, /kitaru-replay-experiment, /kitaru-importer-builder, and /kitaru-adapter-builder, and may also select them automatically from their frontmatter descriptions.

Additional skill editing guidance

Preserve these details in the published skills when editing them; these are not instructions to execute the workflows during repository maintenance.

  • Keep investigation inspection, sampling, and synthesis detail in skills/kitaru-investigation/references/investigation-method.md, and exact CLI/MCP routing and product gaps in its references/kitaru-operations.md.
  • Keep quickstart recognition and idempotent setup in each applicable skill's references/starter-template.md.
  • Keep replay, importer, and adapter orchestration and approval gates in their respective SKILL.md files; keep detailed contracts and methods in their references/ directories.
  • Preserve custom evaluator authoring when no installed evaluator fits, or when the user declines a relevant match and requests custom authoring with equivalent reviewed evidence.
  • Keep the hosted tour's prepared-environment contract and one bounded durable state read. Keep the public tour's complete replay run card and approval before experiment creation or execution.
  • Narrate the public tour for someone who has read neither the sample agent nor Kitaru documentation. Explain each meaningful stage and next useful decision.
  • Preserve generic first-run routing between a tour, specific-behavior debugging, and bounded discovery. Distinguish missing package support, host configuration, capability mode, and a pending host restart when choosing MCP or CLI.
  • Route unsupported-provider setup to the importer builder, returning to investigation after usable sessions exist. A private script importer is a complete outcome; publication is optional.
  • Check supported adapters, importer-backed adapters, importers, and OTLP before custom adapter development. A project-local adapter is a complete outcome.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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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  2. 1mo ago Changed · -111 lines · -1,078 tokens per session 3812d3665701
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +15 lines · +155 tokens per session 3cbb0113910e
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 157 lines · 1,549 tokens per session scan A 9e868e28a2c8

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kitaru-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zenml-io/kitaru-skills (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 653 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 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.

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