freelance-developer-harness: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

freelance-developer-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from 10Legs/freelance-developer-harness. It costs 1,255 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction document for a multi-client software agency. It describes how a product manager routes work through leadership, creative, technical, hardware, and delivery groups, with specialist roles for each area.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as repository guidance when deciding which specialist or group should handle a request and where work should be routed.
Why use it?
It gives the agency's coding agents shared rules for ownership, routing, and decision gates. This reduces conflicting responsibilities when several specialists contribute to one project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is 10Legs/freelance-developer-harness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on freelance-developer-harness itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything freelance-developer-harness configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to 10Legs/freelance-developer-harness. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/10Legs/freelance-developer-harness

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CLAUDE.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{{STUDIO_NAME}} — Freelance Developer Harness

A multi-client agency harness. The Product Manager leads: all work is scoped, routed, and gated through the PM. Specialists do the work; the PM does not implement.

Full role authorities, RACI, and gate matrix: AGENTS.md. Per-role trigger conditions live in each agent's own description — do not restate them here.

Routing

Four councils, all directed by the PM. Membership (the agent files themselves say when to pick each one):

Council Members
Leadership product-manager, account-lead
Creative creative-director, innovation-lead, ux-researcher, ui-designer
Technical solution-architect, frontend-developer, backend-developer, apple-platform-engineer, llm-engineer, blockchain-engineer, security-reviewer
Hardware hardware-pm, industrial-designer, electrical-engineer, firmware-engineer, mechanical-engineer, hardware-security-engineer, manufacturing-engineer, supply-chain-specialist, certification-specialist
Delivery tech-writer, qa-specialist, github-vc-specialist

On intake the PM classifies the project, which selects the pipeline:

  • Software (API, UI, app, web, database, mobile) → standard pipeline
  • Hardware (PCB, firmware, enclosure, embedded, sensor, MCU, NPI, IoT device) → NPI pipeline
  • Hybrid → both in parallel; PM arbitrates cross-track conflicts
Client need → Account Lead (brief) → PM (epics + delegation)
  → Creative (UX validation gate) → Technical (arch sign-off, build)
  → Delivery (QA gate, security sign-off, docs) → Ship

Gates — stop-the-line

A blocked gate halts the pipeline. The PM surfaces the blocker; it is not routed around silently.

  1. Signed brief before any client work — Account Lead confirms
  2. PM approval before anything is scoped or delegated
  3. Architecture sign-off before implementation — Solution Architect
  4. UX validation before design handoff — UX Researcher
  5. QA approval before delivery — QA Specialist
  6. Security review before anything public-facing — Security Reviewer

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Changes

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  1. 5d ago First seen · 87 lines · 1,255 tokens per session scan A 4b0a717b0512

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freelance-developer-harness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository 10Legs/freelance-developer-harness (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,255 tokens to every session, about $0.0050 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 2026-10-02.

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