appropriate-comments-code

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

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides the agent when adding comments or documentation in source code, including how to handle regressions through tests instead of comment history.
Why use it?
It reduces comments that merely repeat the code or describe past work, making code easier to read and maintain.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/appropriate-comments-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 yesterday.

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": "1.2.1",
  "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"]
}
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. yesterday 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.