add-rule

add-rule is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,932 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule manager for a project's live-rules file. It turns coding guidelines into reminders that are automatically supplied to Claude Code when they apply.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding or editing rules such as running a linter before commits or following a convention when editing certain files.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to repeat instructions or remember them manually during every coding session. Rules are kept separately from CLAUDE.md, the main Claude Code instruction file.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the live-rules plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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/eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed/add-rule
Any agent
npx skills add Eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed --skill add-rule
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install live-rules, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,932 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 $0.00036 $0.01932
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00966
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00193

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7aadd1505ab8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-rule 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 5d 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.

plugins/live-rules/skills/add-rule/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Rule

Turn a request like "always run the linter before committing" or "when editing *.tsx, prefer function components" into a rule in the project's live-rules file. The plugin's hooks inject each rule automatically, at the moment it applies, so the user does not have to remember to paste it.

Read references/rule-format.md for the full frontmatter spec and references/example-rules.md for ready-to-adapt examples before writing your first rule.

Do not edit CLAUDE.md. The hooks are the only delivery mechanism; rules live entirely in the live-rules file.

Atomic storage

For new workspaces, keep each rule in .claude/live-rules/rules/<stable-name>.md. After adding or editing a rule, run the plugin-owned sync command from the project root:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/sync-atomic-rules.js" --project "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}"

It derives every manifest hash and metadata field from the rule files, validates a stable read, and atomically replaces only the generated manifest under a writer lock. Rule files remain authoritative and are never rewritten by sync. Never author or repair .claude/live-rules/manifest.json by hand. If sync fails, fix the exact file it names, then run the same command again. Keep the old .claude/live-rules.md format only for existing projects until it has been migrated.

Step 1 - Find the rules file

New workspaces use the atomic directory described above. Existing projects may still have one Markdown file. Resolve that legacy file in this order when migrating or maintaining an existing project:

  1. If the LIVE_RULES_PATH environment variable is set (commonly in .claude/settings.json under env), that path is the file (it may be project-relative, absolute, or ~-relative).
  2. Otherwise it is .claude/live-rules.md at the project root.

If the file does not exist yet, create it with a short title line so a teammate opening it understands what it is:

# Live rules

These rules are re-injected into Claude's context every turn (and before relevant edits) so they stay
in front of the model. Each rule below is a frontmatter block plus body. Edit freely; changes take
effect on the next prompt. Commit this file so the team shares the rules.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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. 5d ago First seen · 144 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 7aadd1505ab8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-rule is a skill published in the GitHub repository Eigenwise/eigenwise-toolshed (37 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,932 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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