eval-rules

eval-rules is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins. It costs 84 tokens per session (2,197 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for Claude Code rule files that checks their structure and file-matching patterns against the actual project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, migrating, or maintaining .claude/rules files and their path-based conditions.
Why use it?
It helps find rules that are invalid, never apply, or load too broadly, and can guide updates based on whether they are still useful.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the security-suite plugin — 2 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents 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/florianbruniaux/claude-code-plugins/eval-rules
Any agent
npx skills add FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins --skill eval-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install security-suite, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 5 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,197 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 $0.00084 $0.02197
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01099
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00220

Measured yesterday against content hash 0f13fe736dac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eval-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.

plugins/security-suite/skills/eval-rules/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rules Evaluator

Discover all rule files, validate their structure and glob patterns against the real project, then run an interactive session to confirm (or improve) each rule with the user.

The goal is not just to score; it is to leave the rules directory in better shape than it was.

When to Use

  • First time writing .claude/rules/ files (validate before committing)
  • A rule seems to never trigger, or fires on every file
  • Migrating @ imports from CLAUDE.md to path-scoped rules
  • Periodic hygiene: "are these rules still relevant to how we work?"
  • After onboarding to a new codebase

Key Concepts

Mechanism When it loads Notes
@file in CLAUDE.md Session start, always Even inside a conditional sentence
No paths: in rule Session start, always Same cost as @import
paths: frontmatter When Claude reads a matching file Trigger = Read tool on a matched file
User-level rule (~/.claude/rules/) Session start, always Applies to all projects on the machine

The paths: field is the main lever for keeping rules contextual. An always-on rule with 80 lines loads on every session even if you're fixing a typo in README.md.

Glob patterns in paths: support brace expansion: "src/**/*.{ts,tsx}" matches both .ts and .tsx files with one entry.


Scoring Criteria (12 pts per rule)

# Criterion Max What is checked
1 frontmatter block 1 File has YAML frontmatter (--- delimited)
2 paths: field 2 Present (1pt) + at least one pattern listed (1pt)
3 pattern validity 3 Each pattern matches >= 1 file in project (up to 3 patterns checked)
4 scope 2 Not dead (>= 1 match) + not too broad (<30% of project source files)
5 content quality 3 Has clear header/title (1pt) + rules are specific/actionable (1pt) + under 150 lines (1pt)
Bonus focus +1 Under 15 rules in file

Thresholds:

  • Good: >= 10/12 (>= 83%)
  • Needs work: 7-9/12 (58-82%)
  • Fix: < 7/12 (< 58%)

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. yesterday First seen · 226 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 0f13fe736dac

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eval-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins (40 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 2,197 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-04.

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