claude-em-toolkit: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-em-toolkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Aibier/claude-em-toolkit. It costs 571 tokens per session, scanned B, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for Claude Code covering commits, branches, coding style, testing, dependencies, and actions that require permission.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Claude Code while changing the project, especially around version control, formatting, tests, dependency changes, CI configuration, and destructive operations.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent repository-specific rules, such as using feature branches and adding regression tests for bug fixes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is Aibier/claude-em-toolkit's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-em-toolkit 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 claude-em-toolkit configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Aibier/claude-em-toolkit. 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/Aibier/claude-em-toolkit/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aibier/claude-em-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00571 $0.00571
Opus 5.5 $0.00228 $0.00228
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00114 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00057 $0.00057

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1fee61c84e3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

claude-em-toolkit CLAUDE.md scanned grade B 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 2mo 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- Default model is set in [`.claude/settings.json`](./.claude/settings.json). Don't switch to a heavier model mid task unless the task genuinely needs deeper reasoning (architecture decisions, ambiguous debugging). Routi
CLAUDE.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Rules for Claude Code

These rules apply to all work in this repository. They're written as a reusable template — copy into your own project and adjust.

Commits & branches

  • Use Conventional Commits style: feat:, fix:, refactor:, docs:, test:, chore:.
  • Never commit directly to main. Create a feature branch per change.
  • Never use git push --force, git reset --hard, or skip hooks (--no-verify) without asking first.
  • Only create commits when the user explicitly asks.

Code style

  • Match the existing formatting/linting config in the repo (don't introduce a new style).
  • Prefer editing existing files over creating new ones.
  • No speculative abstractions — solve the problem in front of you, not hypothetical future ones.
  • Default to no comments; add one only when the why isn't obvious from the code.

Testing

  • Every bug fix needs a regression test before it's considered done.
  • Run the existing test suite before declaring a task complete; report failures honestly.

Ask before

  • Installing/removing dependencies
  • Modifying CI/CD config
  • Any destructive or hard-to-reverse git operation
  • Pushing to a shared remote

Cost and token efficiency

  • Default model is set in .claude/settings.json. Don't switch to a heavier model mid task unless the task genuinely needs deeper reasoning (architecture decisions, ambiguous debugging). Routine tasks (standup notes, formatting, simple lookups) run fine on lighter/faster models.
  • Read only the files and line ranges you actually need. Don't read whole large files when a grep for the relevant symbol would do.
  • For broad, multi area searches, dispatch scoped subagents (see triage-researcher) rather than one sprawling search that fills your own context with raw output.
  • Don't re read files you just wrote or edited to "verify." A successful Edit/Write means the change landed; trust it.
  • Prefer the permission allow list in settings.json for routine, safe commands (git log, git diff, tests) so you aren't re prompted on every run. Keep the deny list for destructive operations.
  • Schedule recurring routines (pulses, summaries, doc syncs) instead of running them ad hoc. A scheduled job that filters for "nothing notable, skip posting" (see jira-progress-pulse) costs far less over a month than manually re running the same broad query.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 2mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 571 tokens per session scan B 1fee61c84e3d

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claude-em-toolkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Aibier/claude-em-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 571 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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