project-guidance

project-guidance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from qingye-lab/rootloom. It costs 29 tokens per session (696 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating and checking AGENTS.md files, which are repository instructions for coding agents. It keeps a managed section evidence-based and allows durable project-specific rules outside that section.

In plain words
What is it for?
Seeding, refreshing, refining, or validating project instructions. It is useful for documenting repository conventions and checking that the guidance remains accurate.
Why use it?
It helps agents follow consistent repository rules without silently changing guidance. Validation is read-only, while saving or refining guidance requires explicit permission.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: SessionStart hook event, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Seeding, refreshing, refining, or validating project instructions. It is useful for documenting repository conventions and checking that the guidance remains accurate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qingye-lab/rootloom/project-guidance
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 qingye-lab/rootloom --skill project-guidance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qingye-lab/rootloom

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 696 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 $0.00029 $0.00696
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00278
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00070

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 80a3535ecc9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-guidance 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/seed_project_guidance.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/rootloom/skills/project-guidance/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project guidance

A user's explicit request to create, refresh, or refine guidance authorizes that work within the stated file scope; the user need not name this Skill. Review/validation requests are read-only. Ordinary coding tasks and natural-language repository guidance do not authorize persistent edits. The SessionStart Hook is always read-only.

The existing repository-authored exception is the exact standalone marker:

<!-- rootloom:refine-once version=1 -->

It permits one refinement of that marked file only. Remove it with the successful edit; validation does not consume it. Preserve any explicit independent approval requirement.

Existing guidance

Resolve each target's real path and symlink chain before editing. Read its applicable global and root-to-target guidance and only the evidence needed for the requested change. An entry pointing outside the authorized repository is external content: propose its diff unless the user has separately authorized that real target. Preserve backups and unrelated edits; do not reset or overwrite user work to simplify refinement.

For wording-only refinement, read semantic-refinement.md and edit authorized unmarked content directly. No manifest/CI/module probe is needed. Keep model judgment outside generated managed markers. Add only durable, supported rules that change a real decision; remove redundant wording without dropping unique constraints.

Generate or refresh project facts

Resolve this Skill directory and use its deterministic probe and writer:

python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/seed_project_guidance.py probe --cwd "$PWD"
python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/seed_project_guidance.py seed --cwd "$PWD"

The writer owns only its generated project block. It must not overwrite unmarked guidance, AGENTS.override.md, symlinked or external targets, disabled projects, or vendor/cache trees. Respect its skip reasons. Only after an exact untrusted_project response and the user's explicit persistence request for this repository may it retry once with --allow-untrusted; this does not change host trust or authorize other writes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago Changed · -32 lines · -13 tokens per session 80a3535ecc9c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 104 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 7e5b810113cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-guidance is a skill published in the GitHub repository qingye-lab/rootloom (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 696 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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