ai-maestro: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ai-maestro CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from 23blocks-OS/ai-maestro. It costs 1,979 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, covering how its hooks and project files are maintained.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help developers update the canonical hook, synchronize its plugin copies, understand the project structure, and avoid editing files maintained by external build processes.
Why use it?
They prevent multiple copies of the same hook from drifting apart and causing inconsistent behavior or failed checks.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is 23blocks-OS/ai-maestro's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai-maestro 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 ai-maestro configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to 23blocks-OS/ai-maestro. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/23blocks-OS/ai-maestro/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/23blocks-OS/ai-maestro

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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Opus 5.5 $0.00792 $0.00792
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00396 $0.00396
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Measured 21d ago against content hash 3dd3955da87d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

ai-maestro CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 21d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Is the server up? `curl localhost:23000/api/sessions` (there is no `/api/health`).
CLAUDE.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

AI Maestro is a dashboard and orchestrator for fleets of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, others) running in tmux, on one machine or across hosts. Next.js 14 (App Router) + a custom server.mjs (HTTP and WebSockets on one port), React 18, xterm.js, node-pty, Tailwind, CozoDB per agent. Port 23000.

How the subsystems work is in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md; read the section you need.

Commands

yarn install
yarn dev                 # dev server with hot reload, http://localhost:23000
yarn build && yarn start # production
yarn headless:prod       # API-only mode (no UI), used on worker hosts
yarn test                # vitest; CI runs it on every push
pm2 restart ai-maestro   # restart the production server
  • Is the server up? curl localhost:23000/api/sessions (there is no /api/health).
  • Never run yarn build in the checkout a live server runs from. It replaces .next/ under the running process, and the UI stops loading (it asks for chunks that no longer exist). Build in a separate worktree, or build and restart together.

Versions and pull requests

  • Bump with ./scripts/bump-version.sh patch|minor|major. It updates every version reference; do not edit version numbers by hand. Every PR to main carries a version bump and a CHANGELOG entry.
  • Before a PR: yarn test passes, yarn build passes (outside the live checkout), version bumped.
  • aimaestro-agent.sh (the agents CLI) has its own v1.x version, released through the plugin.
  • Draft an X post (in marketing/, which is gitignored) for releases only, not for every PR.

The Claude Code hook has one source of truth

ai-maestro-hook.cjs ships from three byte-identical copies. Edit only scripts/claude-hooks/ai-maestro-hook.cjs, then run bash scripts/sync-plugin-hook.sh. tests/plugin-hook-sync.test.ts fails CI if the copies drift.

The plugin (plugin/ submodule)

plugin/ is the plugin builder (23blocks-OS/ai-maestro-plugins), not a plugin. plugin.manifest.json lists sources; build-plugin.sh --clean assembles them into plugin/plugins/ai-maestro/ (build output, committed).

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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.

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  2. 26d ago Changed · -901 lines · -8,547 tokens per session 70f6e105fd94
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  6. 1mo ago First seen · 1,010 lines · 9,787 tokens per session scan A 9838e3c697f1

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ai-maestro CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository 23blocks-OS/ai-maestro (839 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,979 tokens to every session, about $0.0079 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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