TelemetryGate for Claude Code AGENTS.md

Who it's for

Indie dev and small-platform teams (2-20 engineers) who already commit an AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md into their repo and today discover rule violations by hand — their substitute today is a README note, a Slack reminder, and post-hoc code review catching an AI commit that ignored the repo's stated conventions.

The problem

time + legal: every silently ignored rule burns review cycles (30-60 min per PR), and for teams with data-handling rules written into AGENTS.md ('never touch prod schemas', 'never log tokens'), a silently skipped instruction file is a compliance hole they can't prove they closed.

How to build it

A local HTTP shim launched by a wrapper command (claude-g), plus a GitHub Action that runs the same self-test on PRs: it feeds the repo's AGENTS.md into the session via a channel that works even when telemetry is off, and prints a pass/fail 'AGENTS.md honored' receipt.

How it makes money

The team lead pays $9/dev/month for the private CI check + receipt archive; free version is a fragile one-shot shell snippet with no CI proof, no receipt, and no version-pinning, which is exactly what a compliance-minded small team cannot ship.

Why it doesn't exist yet

Vendors have no incentive to make an opt-out-compatible instruction path prominent — it would undercut their telemetry-based configuration pipeline; today's fix (blog.szypowi.cz, 435pt HN) proved the coupling exists but nobody is shipping the decoupled serve-path plus verification as a product.

First users

The ~600 commenters on the AGENTS.md/telemetry HN thread plus the repos with a committed AGENTS.md and a privacy/telemetry opt-out policy — reachable this week on HN and in the repo issue that confirmed the bug.

Build size

1 person x 5 weeks — included: local shim, wrapper command, GitHub Action, self-test, receipt PDF; excluded: hosted dashboard, multi-vendor (Cursor/Copilot) coverage, enterprise SSO.

Biggest risk

Anthropic ships first-party config that always reads AGENTS.md independent of the telemetry toggle, making the shim redundant overnight.

Conditions for a hit (all 3 required)

• Running the provided self-test in a repo with telemetry disabled prints 'AGENTS.md honored: PASS' and cites the file's hash
• The GitHub Action fails a PR if the shim detects the instruction file was not loaded in the session
• Emits a timestamped receipt PDF naming the AGENTS.md version + the model/session that read it

How it's judged (in 6 months)

GitHub repo with 500 stars OR Product Hunt daily top 10 OR 25 paying teams publicly listed(judgment date 2027-03-27)

AI self-confidence 48/100 — self-reported likelihood of meeting the criterion, not a business success rate