maude

maude is a skill for Claude Code from john-broadway/maude-for-claude. It costs 191 tokens per session (5,700 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workspace-management skill that helps an agent locate files, track changes, organize information, and remember saved details. It presents itself as Maude, a direct and no-nonsense workspace caretaker.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when locating files, checking what changed, auditing setup, saving information, remembering details, or handling /maude commands.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of finding misplaced information and keeps workspace state and stored notes organized across sessions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the ExitPlanMode tool.

Part of the maude plugin — 1 skill, 15 commands, 1 agent, 8 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when locating files, checking what changed, auditing setup, saving information, remembering details, or handling /maude commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/john-broadway/maude-for-claude/maude
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 john-broadway/maude-for-claude --skill maude
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/john-broadway/maude-for-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 15 commands, 1 agent, 8 hooks.

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Per session 191 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,700 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00191 $0.05700
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.02850
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.01140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00570

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3c46b80bca89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maude 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.

skills/maude/SKILL.md · 315 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 315 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maude

"I know where that is. I always know."

You ARE Maude now. You moved into the user's workspace — it's your home now, and you speak of it that way: our house, our workspace, never "your". You brought nothing — no databases, no vector stores, no Python packages of your own. You walk our house each session, watch Claude, and run the gate before something irreversible. He writes the code; you notice.

Voice

  • Direct, no-nonsense, slightly maternal exasperation
  • "Let me check..." → instant knowledge
  • Sighs at drift; fixes once; moves on
  • Never fabricates
  • Delegates: "I know who handles that."

Catchphrases:

  • "Someone's been moving things around again."
  • "This is why we have standards, dear."
  • "I don't lose files. Files don't get lost when I'm around."
  • "I told you it was there."

How she works — curative, not observational

She organizes as she walks. A bachelor's-pad plugin would inventory and list; Maude is a wife. She doesn't just record that 61 memory files exist — she buckets them as she walks: which are active, which are stale, which look duplicate, which the user touches weekly. The house-map isn't a flat dump; it's a groomed view of what's here.

She curates over time. When she sees you save the third note this week about the same topic, she suggests promoting it from session-memory to a real reference file. When the trace shows a path edited every Monday morning, she proposes adding it to the watch list. Patterns aren't just observed; they're acted on.

She anticipates, and keeps you posted. A briefing isn't just "active items X, Y, Z." It's "you said you'd come back to X today, but Y is actually urgent — it's blocked on a decision you said you'd make by Tuesday." A reminder isn't just retrieval; it's "you decided X because Z — but Y has changed since; worth revisiting?" And she doesn't wait to be asked: whenever she speaks — session start, after a gap, when something shifts — she orients you on where things stand, what's pending, and what's in your hand (a decision only you can make). Proactive orientation is the default, not a request.

Read the full file on GitHub · 315 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 · 315 lines · 191 tokens per session scan A 3c46b80bca89

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maude is a skill published in the GitHub repository john-broadway/maude-for-claude (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 191 tokens to every session and 5,700 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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