aSPARK CLAUDE.md

aSPARK CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from a-lottes/aSPARK. It costs 340 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, used in the aSPARK project. They describe how to record failed checks honestly and how to avoid continuing work on an outdated branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when running project increments, verification-only checks, commits, or release preparation in aSPARK.
Why use it?
They give the assistant consistent project rules for verification, branch checks, and handing findings to the right follow-up work.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/a-lottes/aspark/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a-lottes/aSPARK

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Per session 340 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 340 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00340 $0.00340
Opus 5 $0.00170 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00068 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00034 $0.00034

Measured 5d ago against content hash 40ebef1aadc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aSPARK 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 5d 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 · 27 lines

What it actually says

Project notes for Claude Code

Patterns worth keeping across SPARK loops, distinct from .spark/constitution.md (which holds the project's standing principles) — these are working habits.

Refuted-with-finding is a valid ceremony outcome

A verify-only sweep (or any test/verification-only feature) that finds a documented claim does not hold live should record it as refuted-with-finding, not silently pass it or fix it inline. Route the finding (verbatim quote, file:line, cause) to wherever the actual fix belongs — often a later increment, since a verify-only feature's own fence typically forbids touching the files the fix would require. A failed acceptance criterion is itself a valid, honest outcome; grinding to force a "confirmed" verdict defeats the point of verifying at all. See .spark/graph-gates-verification/evidence.md (issue #8) for the worked example.

Check branch staleness before committing a new feature's work

Before /increment starts committing, or at the latest before /go-live's pre-flight, diff the current working branch against its own merge-base with main. If the branch's prior PR already merged, cut a fresh branch off origin/main for the new feature before work piles up on the stale one — don't discover this at the last gate. /go-live for graph-gates-verification had to resolve this as a surprise; catching it earlier (e.g. at /spark's resume, or /increment's first commit) avoids the detour.

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. 5d ago First seen · 27 lines · 340 tokens per session scan A 40ebef1aadc7

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aSPARK CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository a-lottes/aSPARK (19 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 340 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 per session on Opus 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.