What is dancing-bear-rules?

A shared set of project rules for agents working on the Dancing Bear project, covering command wrappers, coding conventions, credential handling, and staged changes.

Use it to guide mail, calendar, phone, messaging, workflow, and worker commands, protect credentials, and apply approved changes in a controlled order.

It reduces inconsistent commands and unsafe changes, such as exposing secrets or modifying state without a preview. The plan, dry-run, and apply steps make changes easier to inspect first.

How dancing-bear-show/dancing-bear configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dancing-bear-show/dancing-bear. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dancing-bear-show/dancing-bear/main/.claude/skills/dancing-bear-rules/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dancing-bear-show/dancing-bear

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,682 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00040	$0.01682
Opus 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00673
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00336
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00168

Measured yesterday against content hash 77395cfc956d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dancing-bear-rules 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.

.claude/skills/dancing-bear-rules/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dancing-bear Project Rules

1. Bin Wrappers First

Always use ./bin/<tool> wrappers, never module execution (-m) directly:

./bin/mail <subcommand> [flags]
./bin/calendar <subcommand> [flags]
./bin/schedule <subcommand> [flags]
./bin/phone <subcommand> [flags]
./bin/assistant resume <subcommand> [flags]
./bin/whatsapp <subcommand> [flags]
./bin/workflow <subcommand> [flags]
./bin/worker <subcommand> [flags]

2. Sub-Agents Must Not Auto-Familiarize

When spawned via Agent tool, you receive all needed context in your prompt. Do not run /familiarize — it wastes tokens and triggers permission prompts.

3. Plan → Dry-Run → Apply

Never mutate state without first staging and previewing:

./bin/<tool> <action> plan --out out/<plan>.yaml
./bin/<tool> <action> apply --plan out/<plan>.yaml --dry-run
./bin/<tool> <action> apply --plan out/<plan>.yaml

4. Credential Protection

Never overwrite ~/.config/credentials.ini
Never log or print tokens, API keys, or secrets
Use profiles: [mail.gmail_personal], [mail.outlook_personal], etc.
Avoid --credentials/--token flags; prefer profile-based auth

5. Config Source of Truth

Canonical filters: ~/.config/dancing-bear/filters_unified.yaml (outside checkout; config/filters_unified.example.yaml is the tracked template)
Derived outputs: out/filters.gmail.from_unified.yaml, out/filters.outlook.from_unified.yaml
Always derive from unified config, never edit derived files directly

6. Coding Standards

@dataclass for structured data, never plain dicts
Type hints on all function signatures; PEP 585/604 syntax (list[str], str | None)
Lazy imports for optional deps (Google APIs, PyYAML, MSAL)
No bare except Exception: pass/continue — add # nosec B110/B112 with intent comment

7. Testing

Framework: unittest (not pytest); run with make test — never a bare unittest run in a worktree (inherited PYTHONPATH resolves imports to the main checkout and yields false greens). Fallback: PYTHONPATH="$PWD/src" python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -t .
Coverage: make cov (or make cov-html)
Patch where the name is used, not where it's defined
Use factories/fakes from tests/fakes/; never construct API response dicts manually

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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.

yesterday First seen · 139 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 77395cfc956d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dancing-bear-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository dancing-bear-show/dancing-bear (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,682 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 2026-11-07.

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dancing-bear-rules next to 6 skills from other repositories
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outlook-mcpmpalermiti/outlook-mcp	Skill	41	2d ago	MIT	A	96	Claude Code, Codex
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ghealthGoogle-Health-API/google-health-cli	Skill	281	4mo ago	Apache-2.0	A	41	Claude Code, Codex
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