evolve-claude-md

evolve-claude-md is a skill for Claude Code from dgilford/ai-science-toolkit. It costs 59 tokens per session (755 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for updating CLAUDE.md or the project's canonical AGENTS.md with durable knowledge learned during a coding session. These files provide instructions and project context to coding assistants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review session findings, resolve which guidance file is authoritative, and record lasting project knowledge.
Why use it?
It prevents useful discoveries, corrected assumptions, and renamed concepts from being lost after the session ends.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-science-toolkit plugin — 21 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review session findings, resolve which guidance file is authoritative, and record lasting project knowledge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/evolve-claude-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 dgilford/ai-science-toolkit --skill evolve-claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-science-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 4 agents.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 755 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00059 $0.00755
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00076

Measured 10d ago against content hash d0282830e3ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evolve-claude-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 10d 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/evolve-claude-md/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review the current session and update the project's canonical agent-guidance file with anything durable that it doesn't yet know.

Target file

CLAUDE.md by default — but some repos keep a thin CLAUDE.md stub that redirects to a canonical AGENTS.md (the cross-tool convention scaffolded by /repo-init). Resolve the target before editing:

A redirect stub is a CLAUDE.md whose only content is the redirect to AGENTS.md plus pointer lines (the shape /repo-init scaffolds) — nothing project-specific. A stray substantive line in an otherwise-stub file is residue: migrate it into AGENTS.md as part of this run and leave the stub clean.

Repo state Edit
CLAUDE.md substantive, no AGENTS.md (the most common state) CLAUDE.md
CLAUDE.md is a redirect stub AGENTS.md — leave the stub untouched (create AGENTS.md if the stub points at a missing file)
No CLAUDE.md, but AGENTS.md exists AGENTS.md
Both exist with substantive content CLAUDE.md, and flag the split-brain to the user so they can consolidate
Neither exists Create CLAUDE.md

What belongs in the canonical file

Promote only knowledge that is:

  • Permanent — true beyond this session (not current task state)
  • Project-level — relevant to anyone working in this repo
  • Non-obvious — not derivable from reading the code directly

Good candidates: renamed or new variables, corrected definitions, newly understood warn patterns, confirmed pipeline behavior, resolved ambiguities about data schema, architectural decisions with non-obvious rationale.

Good: Pipeline requires --baseline to be passed explicitly; there is no default. — permanent code behavior that would surprise any future developer.

Bad: Dataset coverage is 1981-09-01 through 2026-05-16 (16,329 zarrs). — describes the current data artifact being processed, not the codebase. Belongs in HANDOFF.md.

The test: if removing this fact would cause a future developer to misunderstand how the pipeline works, it belongs here. If it describes the data being processed this session, it belongs in the handoff.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 10d ago First seen · 51 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A d0282830e3ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

evolve-claude-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository dgilford/ai-science-toolkit (62 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 755 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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