smith-constitution

A workflow for creating or updating a project's constitution, meaning its shared rules and principles for development. It also updates the project templates and other dependent documents that rely on those rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to establish new project principles or amend existing ones, then propagate those changes to the project's dependent templates and documents.
Why use it?
It keeps the project's governing principles and related templates aligned after a change. It requires an active higher-level workflow, such as starting a feature, bugfix, debugging, or build process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/attckdigital/smith/smith-constitution
Any agent
npx skills add ATTCKDigital/smith --skill smith-constitution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ATTCKDigital/smith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,325 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.01325
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00662
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00133

Measured 2d ago against content hash 197f761e114b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smith-constitution 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 2d 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.

skills/smith-constitution/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow requirement (Smith 20+): This skill must be invoked from inside an active top-level workflow (/smith-new, /smith-bugfix, /smith-debug, /smith-build). The workflow-gate hook will block standalone invocation. To use this skill standalone, start a top-level workflow first.

Vault Logging

Throughout this action, log significant events to the vault session log. Read the session log path from .smith/vault/.current-session. If the file is missing or the vault is not initialized, skip all logging silently.

Append entries using this format:

### [HH:MM:SS] /smith-constitution <event>

**User Request:**
> <verbatim user message that triggered this action>

**Synthesized Input:** <brief summary>
**Outcome:** <what happened>
**Artifacts:** <files modified>
**Systems affected:** <system IDs>

Log at these points:

  1. On invocation — what is being changed (new constitution or amendment)
  2. After amendments applied — summary of principles added, modified, or removed
  3. After propagation — which templates or artifacts were updated as a result

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Outline

You are updating the project constitution at .specify/memory/constitution.md. This file is a TEMPLATE containing placeholder tokens in square brackets (e.g. [PROJECT_NAME], [PRINCIPLE_1_NAME]). Your job is to (a) collect/derive concrete values, (b) fill the template precisely, and (c) propagate any amendments across dependent artifacts.

Follow this execution flow:

  1. Load the existing constitution template at .specify/memory/constitution.md.

    • Identify every placeholder token of the form [ALL_CAPS_IDENTIFIER]. IMPORTANT: The user might require less or more principles than the ones used in the template. If a number is specified, respect that - follow the general template. You will update the doc accordingly.
  2. Collect/derive values for placeholders:

    • If user input (conversation) supplies a value, use it.
    • Otherwise infer from existing repo context (README, docs, prior constitution versions if embedded).
    • For governance dates: RATIFICATION_DATE is the original adoption date (if unknown ask or mark TODO), LAST_AMENDED_DATE is today if changes are made, otherwise keep previous.
    • CONSTITUTION_VERSION must increment according to semantic versioning rules:
      • MAJOR: Backward incompatible governance/principle removals or redefinitions.
      • MINOR: New principle/section added or materially expanded guidance.
      • PATCH: Clarifications, wording, typo fixes, non-semantic refinements.
    • If version bump type ambiguous, propose reasoning before finalizing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 109 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 197f761e114b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smith-constitution is a skill published in the GitHub repository ATTCKDigital/smith (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,325 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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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