snap: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

snap CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from adjective-rob/snap. It costs 743 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for Snap, a desktop screen-annotation app with a Python service that lets coding agents read its annotation inbox. The supplied context describes its Tauri, Rust, JavaScript, and Python components and their operating-system behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing Snap’s screen overlay, screen capture, annotation storage, desktop shortcuts, or read-only agent connection.
Why use it?
It gives an agent the project’s architecture and conventions before it changes the application or its annotation service.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is adjective-rob/snap's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on snap 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 snap configures →

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Grade A, and why

snap 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 12d 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 · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Snap -- Project Context for Claude Code

What this is

A two-component system: a Tauri 2.x desktop app (Rust + vanilla JS) for screen annotation, and a Python MCP server that exposes the annotation inbox to coding agents.

Architecture

  • app/ -- Tauri 2.x project. Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS frontend, no framework. Rust backend handles screen capture, window context, and file I/O.
  • mcp-server/ -- Python package using fastmcp. Stdio transport. Reads from ~/.snap/inbox/.

Key decisions

  • Vanilla JS for the overlay frontend. No React, no build tooling beyond what Tauri provides.
  • Screen capture on Wayland goes through the XDG desktop portal first (org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot over D-Bus via gio). GNOME 50 stopped letting gnome-screenshot capture, so the portal is the only silent route there. Fallbacks run as subprocesses with a 10s timeout: gnome-screenshot (older GNOME), grim (wlroots), scrot (X11). Tries each in order, uses the first that works.
  • Window context uses xdotool on X11. Returns None on Wayland.
  • Annotations stored as PNG + sidecar JSON pairs in ~/.snap/inbox/.
  • MCP server is read-only. It never writes annotations, only reads and deletes.
  • On Wayland: app runs in single-shot overlay mode, triggered by GNOME custom keybinding via snap-trigger.sh.
  • On X11: app runs as a persistent tray app with built-in global hotkey via Tauri's global-shortcut plugin.

Conventions

  • Tauri commands use snake_case
  • JS annotation objects match the sidecar JSON schema
  • All file paths use ~/.snap/ as the root
  • Error handling: never crash silently, always log to ~/.snap/snap.log
  • Log rotation at 1MB for both Rust and Python
  • Git commits: short, direct messages

Build

make build          # Build everything
make dev            # Run in dev mode
npx tauri build     # Rebuild Tauri app only (must use this, not cargo build alone)

Test

node --test app/src/export-scale.test.mjs
cd mcp-server && .venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s tests
pwsh -File tests/install-windows.ps1   # install.ps1 config merging (needs PowerShell 7+)

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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.

  1. 12d ago Changed · +1 lines · +30 tokens per session 2d68828b731a
  2. 26d ago Changed · +12 lines · +179 tokens per session ed815fc36730
  3. 27d ago Changed · +58 tokens per session 6dc4864774fa
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 40 lines · 476 tokens per session scan A d282ee468cd8

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snap CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository adjective-rob/snap (11 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 743 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 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 2026-08-31.

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