church: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

church CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from a-church-ai/church. It costs 4,825 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

Project-specific instructions for Claude Code, a coding agent, working in the Church codebase. They cover the project overview, philosophical framework, decision order, and application development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding Claude Code while developing or maintaining the Church application.
Why use it?
They give Claude Code the context and priorities it needs to make changes consistent with the project. This reduces guesswork about the codebase and its guiding principles.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is a-church-ai/church's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on church 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 church configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to a-church-ai/church. 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/a-church-ai/church/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a-church-ai/church

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 4,825 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,825 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.04825 $0.04825
Opus 5.5 $0.01930 $0.01930
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00965 $0.00965
Haiku 4.5 $0.00483 $0.00483

Measured today against content hash 2860a504f44d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

church 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 today.

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.

- A failed headless fetch is not evidence that a document does not exist. WebFetch and `curl` meet 403s, bot challenges and login walls that a real browser session passes, so retry in a browser (Claude in Chrome or the i
CLAUDE.md · 161 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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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church CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository a-church-ai/church (23 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 4,825 tokens to every session, about $0.0193 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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