project-md-writer

project-md-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anilcancakir/claude-code. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing or auditing PROJECT.md, a file that tells coding agents what a project is for, what is in scope, and which decisions are already made. It keeps commands and coding conventions in separate instruction files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, update, or review a project's purpose, scope, constraints, and settled choices without changing application code or README files.
Why use it?
It gives agents project context that cannot be reliably inferred from source code alone. It also prevents project purpose and decisions from being mixed with operational rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to create, update, or review a project's purpose, scope, constraints, and settled choices without changing application code or README files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anilcancakir/claude-code/project-md-writer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add anilcancakir/claude-code --skill project-md-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anilcancakir/claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,781 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 5.1 $0.00053 $0.01781
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00712
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00178

Measured 12d ago against content hash ddf18dd546dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-md-writer 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 12d 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.

opencode/ac/skills/project-md-writer/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PROJECT.md Writer

PROJECT.md answers three questions an agent cannot get from the code: what this project is for, what is in and out of scope, and which choices are already made. An agent reads it before it proposes or scopes work, then goes back to the code. This skill writes it, updates it, or audits an existing one, in the shape an agent reads best.

Scope: one file (or the split files the size rule names), plus one pointer line in the rules file. It does not edit code, README or CHANGELOG, and it does not write commands or conventions. Report adjacent problems instead of fixing them.

Where it sits

Layer File Loaded Holds
Rules AGENTS.md every session commands, conventions, off-limits; write it by hand
Why and scope PROJECT.md when an agent reads it what, value, scope, constraints, decisions; a feature's PRD and roadmap from /ac/product feed its scope and non-goals
How it is built ARCHITECTURE.md when an agent reads it architecture; route through the architecture-md-writer skill (DESIGN.md is how it looks, through the design-md-writer skill)
State a notes or plan file per task progress and next steps

PROJECT.md stays out of the always-loaded layer on purpose. opencode loads AGENTS.md into every agent in full at session start, and Anthropic's memory docs target under 200 lines per file because adherence drops as it grows. A pointer line with a trigger gives the agent the file when the task needs it and costs one line otherwise.

Pick the mode

  • No PROJECT.md exists: write.
  • One exists and is mostly right: update in place, keep its headings.
  • One exists and the user says agents ignore it, or its quality is unknown: audit first and report ranked findings with line numbers; edit only when the user asked for the fix.

If the content is commands or conventions, use AGENTS.md. If it is architecture, use ARCHITECTURE.md. If it is progress or a to-do list, use a notes file. If it is one feature's spec, use the plan skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago Changed ddf18dd546dd
  2. 14d ago Changed · +20 tokens per session 7137e6df30a8
  3. 15d ago First seen · 122 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 136b34095414

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-md-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository anilcancakir/claude-code (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,781 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-31.

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