What is appropriate-comments-code?

A code-commenting rule set for keeping comments short, current, and useful information that the code itself does not show.

It guides the agent when adding comments or documentation in source code, including how to handle regressions through tests instead of comment history.

It reduces comments that merely repeat the code or describe past work, making code easier to read and maintain.

appropriate-comments-code — Plugin by patrickdappollonio

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/appropriate-comments-code"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/appropriate-comments-code/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/appropriate-comments-code"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/appropriate-comments-code.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 100 tokens a session between them.

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.

Security

Grade A, and why

appropriate-comments-code 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.

plugins/appropriate-comments-code/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "appropriate-comments-code",
  "description": "Comment discipline for code the agent writes — every comment stays within a line or two, carries information the code does not, and describes the current state only, with no iteration labels, finding numbers, wave or task IDs, project phase names, or narration of how the code got here; regressions are pinned by tests instead.",
  "version": "1.7.1",
  "author": {
    "name": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/tree/main/plugins/appropriate-comments-code",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["comments", "code-quality", "documentation", "readability", "maintainability", "ai-slop"]
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 100 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Skill appropriate-comments-code A 100 tokens

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 Changed df45923fb603
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1mo ago Changed ef2365686ba1
1mo ago Changed cb4c99023607
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2mo ago Changed 2d7448be6d28
2mo ago Changed cc88b892b475
2mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 25710c68df03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appropriate-comments-code is a plugin published in the GitHub repository patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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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