ai-assist: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ai-assist CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ai-assist-org/ai-assist. It costs 943 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Development instructions for the ai-assist repository, including setup, testing, code coverage, integration tests, and agent-behaviour evaluation. They say to read AGENTS.md before writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to install development dependencies, configure pre-commit hooks, run fast or integration tests, measure coverage, and run evaluation suites.
Why use it?
They provide the repository’s expected setup and checks, so changes can be tested consistently and project-specific guidance is followed.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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CLAUDE.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

IMPORTANT: Read AGENTS.md before writing any code. It contains the project architecture, development guidelines, coding patterns, and examples that must be followed.

Development Commands

Setup

# Install with dev dependencies
uv sync
# or: pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Setup pre-commit hooks
make pre-commit-install
# or: pre-commit install

Testing

make test                    # Run all tests (excludes integration, parallel with -n auto)
make test-cov                # Run tests with coverage report (≥71% required)
make test-fast               # Skip slow/integration tests
make test-integration        # Run sandbox integration tests (requires podman + built images)
pytest tests/test_file.py    # Run specific test file
pytest -v -s                 # Verbose with print output

Eval (agent behavior tests)

make test-eval               # Run eval suite with check judges only
make test-eval-full          # Run eval suite with LLM judges (slower, requires claude CLI)
uv run --extra eval python eval/run_eval.py --config eval/eval.yaml --model claude-sonnet-4-6 --cases jq-filter-json  # Single case

Code Quality

make format                  # Format with black and ruff (import sorting)
make lint                    # Lint with ruff
make lint-fix                # Auto-fix linting issues
make pre-commit-run          # Run all pre-commit hooks
make all-checks              # format-check + lint + test (CI mode)

Running the Application

uv run ai-assist                      # Interactive mode (default)
uv run ai-assist /monitor             # Start monitoring mode
uv run ai-assist /query "..."         # One-off query
uv run ai-assist /run workflow.awl    # Execute AWL workflow
uv run ai-assist --dev /interactive   # Enable code auto-reload (dev mode)

Service Management (Persistent Background Service)

ai-assist /service install           # Install as persistent service (default: ~/.ai-assist)
ai-assist /service install ~/.iris   # Install additional instance
ai-assist /service start|stop|restart|status <config_dir>
ai-assist /service enable|disable <config_dir>
ai-assist /service logs <config_dir> [-f]  # View logs (-f to follow)
ai-assist /service remove <config_dir>

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Changes

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  2. 12d ago First seen · 94 lines · 940 tokens per session scan A 71d5bda1c340

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ai-assist CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ai-assist-org/ai-assist (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 943 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 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 2026-08-31.

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