claude-project-manifest

claude-project-manifest is a skill for Claude Code from organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,365 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A documentation format for Claude projects that inventories files, conversation threads, and the links between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document project files, track work across conversations, onboard collaborators, and build a structured knowledge map.
Why use it?
It gives collaborators a navigable record of what a project contains, where information came from, and how parts relate.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the example-skills plugin — 47 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to document project files, track work across conversations, onboard collaborators, and build a structured knowledge map.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills/claude-project-manifest
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 organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills --skill claude-project-manifest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install example-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent.

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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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,365 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 $0.00050 $0.01365
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00682
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00136

Measured 12d ago against content hash 76b85a650d58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-project-manifest 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.

distributions/claude/skills/claude-project-manifest/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Project Manifest

Create structured, annotated documentation of Claude projects that tracks files, conversation threads, and their relationships.

When to Use

  • Documenting project contents and structure
  • Creating file inventories with annotations
  • Tracking conversation history across sessions
  • Building navigable knowledge maps
  • Onboarding new collaborators to existing projects

Core Concepts

Manifest Structure

A manifest has four primary sections:

  1. Metadata: Project-level information (ID, version, status)
  2. Files: Annotated file inventory with provenance
  3. Threads: Conversation summaries and accomplishments
  4. Relations: Dependencies and connections between entities

ID System

Entity Format Example
Project PROJ-{YEAR}-{SEQ} PROJ-2024-001
File FILE-{SEQ} FILE-042
Thread THR-{SEQ} THR-017
Relation REL-{SEQ} REL-123

Quick Start

Minimal Manifest

manifest:
  id: "PROJ-2024-001"
  version: "1.0.0"
  created: "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"

  project:
    name: "My Project"
    description: "Brief description of the project"
    status: active

files:
  - id: "FILE-001"
    path: "src/main.py"
    title: "Main Entry Point"
    summary: "Application entry and initialization"

Full File Entry

files:
  - id: "FILE-001"
    path: "src/main.py"
    type: source  # source | config | doc | asset | generated
    thread_id: "THR-001"
    title: "Main Entry Point"
    summary: "One-line description of purpose"
    notes: |
      Extended annotation explaining:
      - Design decisions made
      - Why this approach was chosen
      - Key implementation details
      - Known limitations or TODOs
    tags: [core, initialization]
    depends_on: ["FILE-002", "FILE-003"]
    created: "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"
    modified: "2024-01-16T14:20:00Z"

Thread Entry

threads:
  - id: "THR-001"
    started: "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"
    ended: "2024-01-15T12:45:00Z"
    title: "Initial Project Setup"
    summary: "Created core infrastructure and configuration"
    accomplishments:
      - "Created directory structure"
      - "Implemented Config class with validation"
      - "Added logging infrastructure"
    files_created: ["FILE-001", "FILE-002"]
    files_modified: []
    decisions:
      - "Chose YAML over JSON for config readability"
      - "Used dataclasses instead of Pydantic for simplicity"
    tags: [setup, infrastructure]

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 12d ago First seen · 208 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 76b85a650d58

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-project-manifest is a skill published in the GitHub repository organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills (17 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,365 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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