folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md

folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md is a skill for Claude Code from attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,263 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md, MIT.

A workflow for creating a CLAUDE.md file and an AGENTS.md link inside a specific project folder. These files give coding agents instructions and context that apply only to that folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an active folder needs lasting agent guidance, after reviewing the folder's relevant files and deciding what context belongs there.
Why use it?
It keeps folder-specific conventions, decisions, and background available to future agents without placing unrelated details in global instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it when an active folder needs lasting agent guidance, after reviewing the folder's relevant files and deciding what context belongs there.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills/folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md
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 attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills --skill folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,263 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00065 $0.01263
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00632
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00126

Measured 12d ago against content hash d7f19ba41473, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

folder-specific-claude-and-agents-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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/skill-authoring/folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Folder CLAUDE.md Creation

Generate a focused CLAUDE.md inside a target folder, plus an AGENTS.md symlink pointing at it. The file gives any future agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) the folder-specific context the global CLAUDE.md doesn't cover.

Background reference: library/claude-code/claude-and-agents-md.md.

Process

Step 1: Confirm the target folder + sanity-check it deserves a file

Ask the user which folder. Use absolute path under ~/Documents/code/workspace/.

Only create a file if the folder has context needed across multiple sessions — active evolving work, specific conventions, ongoing decisions. A folder of static reference files does NOT need one (agents can read on demand). If unsure, ask the user.

Step 2: Read every file in the folder IN FULL

  • Use ls -la first to enumerate files and subfolders.
  • Read every markdown, config, and key source file.
  • For large tldraw/Vite subprojects: read package.json, src/App.tsx, one representative module file, and the folder's own module-details.md-style files.
  • Do NOT skim. Do NOT skip. The user's later edits depend on you having full context.

Step 3: Draft a bullet list of candidate content

Before writing the file, give the user a bullet list grouped by section — let them react first. Candidate sections (skip any that don't apply):

  • Product / Purpose — what this folder/project is, current state, key metrics
  • Avatar / Audience — who it's for (if applicable)
  • Essential Files — one-line role for each important file, including cross-folder references (use @path/file.md import syntax)
  • Constraints (MUST NOT) — explicit hard negatives. Highest-ROI content in the file.
  • Conventions — the user's lingo, status emojis (✅ 🟡), naming patterns, "usually do" patterns
  • Locked Decisions — things agreed + dated, must not re-litigate
  • Context — history, authority, credibility that frames the work
  • How to work with the user — collaboration style for this specific folder
  • Marketing Angles / Positioning — if public-facing
  • Top Insights — 3-5 most glaring signals from research (if research exists)

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 12d ago First seen · 76 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A d7f19ba41473

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folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository attentiondotnet/davidondrej-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,263 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to folder-specific-claude-and-agents-md, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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