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PhilLit: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

PhilLit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from AI-4-Phi/PhilLit. It costs 6,808 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Developer instructions for PhilLit, a Claude Code plugin that uses multiple agents to write philosophy literature reviews and improve its review workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or testing PhilLit, or when running its six-phase literature-review process with verified academic references.
Why use it?
They clarify how the plugin operates in production and development, including which workflow to start and where its instructions live.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is AI-4-Phi/PhilLit's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on PhilLit 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 PhilLit configures →

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

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Measured 11d ago against content hash 39effea8325a, 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

PhilLit 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 11d 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 · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PhilLit is a multi-agent system to (a) author academic literature reviews for philosophy research, and (b) improve these agents. It is packaged as a distributable Claude Code plugin.

This CLAUDE.md is for plugin developers working in this repository. It does not load when PhilLit runs as an installed plugin from a user's own directory — runtime guidance lives in the skills (skills/*/SKILL.md) and agents (agents/*.md).

Mode

Production mode (default): When the user asks for a literature review, invoke the /phillit:literature-review skill to begin the 6-phase workflow. Skills and agents register only when the plugin is loaded — a bare dev clone registers none of them. To run a review against your checkout, launch claude --plugin-dir /path/to/PhilLit from a scratch directory (see CONTRIBUTING.md, Getting Started).

Development mode: Only if user explicitly asks to develop, improve, or test agents/skills. Work on definitions in agents/ and skills/.

Objectives

Main objective, above every other concern: build the best tooling to advance the norms in philosophy around using AI, and to show the AI-curious what AI can do for philosophy research. PhilLit and phillit-service are not a public professional product: practically nobody uses the service, and any users will be friends and acquaintances experimenting together.

Priority order for literature reviews (and agent development):

  1. Accurate — Only cite verified papers; never fabricate references
  2. Comprehensive — Cover all major positions and key debates
  3. Rigorous and concise — Analytical depth, tight prose; balanced presentation of positions
  4. Reproducible — Structured workflow, standard BibTeX output, Chicago author-date citations

NOT priorities:

  • ❌ Speed — Quality over fast completion
  • ❌ Context efficiency — Use full context as needed; don't optimize for token savings
  • ❌ Professional-grade legal caution — exacting legal standards fit a real professional product, not this project (see the main objective). On copyright and licensing be very scrappy: never block, narrow or gate a feature for legal exposure only a public professional product would carry. For example, one user's uploaded PDF serves other users' reviews.

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 lines

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PhilLit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository AI-4-Phi/PhilLit (45 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 6,808 tokens to every session, about $0.0272 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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