cicero: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cicero CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from 5uck1ess/cicero. It costs 32 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for Cicero, a self-hosted voice interface for coding agents. It points shared guidance to AGENTS.md and keeps only provider-specific notes in this file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying Cicero so the agent first follows the shared project guidance and adds provider-specific instructions only where needed.
Why use it?
It helps coding agents apply the project's general rules consistently while avoiding duplicate instructions. Self-hosted means the system is run on infrastructure controlled by its operator.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is 5uck1ess/cicero's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cicero 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 cicero configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to 5uck1ess/cicero. 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/5uck1ess/cicero/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/5uck1ess/cicero

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 32 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00032 $0.00032
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00013
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00006
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00003

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8f30fbfc526f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cicero CLAUDE.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 1mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 5 lines

What it actually says

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code should use the shared project guidance above. Keep provider-specific notes here only when they cannot be expressed for every coding agent.

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 First seen · 5 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 8f30fbfc526f

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cicero CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository 5uck1ess/cicero (65 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session, 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 2026-08-30.

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