maintaining-agents-md

maintaining-agents-md is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from qte77/claude-code-plugins. It costs 53 tokens per session (834 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A maintenance workflow for keeping AGENTS.md, AGENTLEARNINGS.md, AGENTREQUESTS.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md aligned with a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during audits, sprint reviews, structural changes, validation-pipeline updates, or changes to skills and plugins.
Why use it?
It finds outdated paths, commands, and governance references that can mislead agents or contributors after project changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the docs-governance 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/qte77/claude-code-plugins/maintaining-agents-md
Any agent
npx skills add qte77/claude-code-plugins --skill maintaining-agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qte77/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install docs-governance, 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 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 834 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 $0.00053 $0.00834
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00083

Measured 3d ago against content hash cf451a59f632, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maintaining-agents-md 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 3d 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/docs-governance/skills/maintaining-agents-md/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maintain Agent Governance Files

Scope: $ARGUMENTS

Keeps agent governance files synchronized with codebase state. Detects stale references, missing updates, and promotion candidates.

Governance Files

File Authority Purpose
AGENTS.md Behavioral Rules, role boundaries, compliance requirements
CONTRIBUTING.md Technical Workflows, commands, coding standards
AGENT_LEARNINGS.md Knowledge Accumulated patterns and solutions
AGENT_REQUESTS.md Escalation Active blockers requiring human input

When to Use

  • After PRs that change project structure, commands, or patterns
  • At sprint start/end for governance health check
  • When promoting patterns from AGENT_LEARNINGS.md to .claude/rules/
  • After make validate pipeline or Makefile changes
  • When adding/removing skills or plugins

Modes

audit (default)

Scan governance files for staleness and inconsistencies.

Checks:

  1. Stale paths: Grep governance files for src/, docs/, tests/ paths. Verify each path still exists.
  2. Stale commands: Parse CONTRIBUTING.md command reference table. Verify each make recipe exists in Makefile.
  3. Missing learnings: Check recent git log for patterns not yet in AGENT_LEARNINGS.md. If ralph/docs/LEARNINGS.md exists, check it too.
  4. Resolved requests: Check AGENT_REQUESTS.md entries — flag any whose referenced files/issues no longer exist.
  5. Role boundary drift: Verify AGENTS.md role definitions match current .claude/skills/ inventory.

Output: Findings table with file, line, issue type, description.

sync

Fix staleness found by audit. For each finding:

  1. Propose the specific edit
  2. Apply on user approval
  3. Follow priority order: AGENTS.md > CONTRIBUTING.md > AGENT_LEARNINGS.md > AGENT_REQUESTS.md

promote

Evaluate AGENT_LEARNINGS.md entries for promotion per the criteria in .claude/rules/compound-learning.md (3rd occurrence → rule, recurring → skill).

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 3d ago First seen · 95 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A cf451a59f632

Subscribe to this mod's changes

maintaining-agents-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository qte77/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 834 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 2026-08-31.

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