moneta-notes: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

moneta-notes CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ajmichels/moneta-notes. It costs 2,149 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Claude Code instructions for developing the moneta-notes project. They distinguish lasting specifications from temporary implementation plans and user-facing documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Implementing changes in moneta-notes while following its documentation, testing, and linting conventions.
Why use it?
They help keep documentation accurate and tell the agent where to find architecture, requirements, plans, testing, and linting guidance.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is ajmichels/moneta-notes's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on moneta-notes 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 moneta-notes configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ajmichels/moneta-notes. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ajmichels/moneta-notes/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ajmichels/moneta-notes

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CLAUDE.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read README.md first for the full architecture and tool specs — this file is about how to build it, not what to build.

docs/specs/ vs. docs/plans/

  • docs/specs/S0xx-*.md are living documentation. They're the contract for what each subsystem does and why — update them in place as behavior changes (don't leave them describing stale behavior, and don't fork a new spec number for a change to something already specified).
  • docs/plans/S0xx-*.md are disposable. They're step-by-step execution checklists written for agentic implementation of a spec, not a reference anyone should need afterward — any rationale worth keeping belongs in the corresponding spec, not the plan. Checkbox state in these files isn't reliably maintained during implementation, so don't use it to judge completion — verify against the actual repo (does the code exist, does it match the spec, do the tests pass) instead.
  • Once a plan's spec is implemented and verified, delete the plan file. Keeping it around past that point only invites drift between plan and reality.

docs/*.md — user-facing guides

docs/installation.md, docs/usage.md, docs/usage-vectors.md, docs/usage-mcp.md, docs/process-management.md, and docs/uninstallation.md are living documentation too, same rule as docs/specs/: keep them in sync with actual behavior, don't let them drift. They're linked from the README's "Documentation" table so they're the first thing a reader on GitHub reaches. docs/usage.md was split three ways (core CLI / vectors CLI / MCP) specifically so a change to one surface only needs reading and editing its own file, not the whole combined reference — update the relevant page(s), in the same change, whenever you touch:

  • scripts/install.sh / scripts/uninstall.sh (steps, prompts, what gets created/removed) → docs/installation.md / docs/uninstallation.md.
  • src/cli/main.js's command surface (new command, new/changed flag, changed output shape, excluding vectors below) → docs/usage.md.
  • src/cli/vectors.js's command surface (new/changed mnotes vectors subcommand or flag) → docs/usage-vectors.md.
  • src/cli/daemon.js, src/indexer/daemon.js's launchd wiring, or launchd/*.plist.template (daemon control, log file layout, rotation policy) → docs/process-management.md.
  • src/mcp/tools.js's tool list (added/removed/renamed MCP tool) → docs/usage-mcp.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

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moneta-notes CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ajmichels/moneta-notes (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,149 tokens to every session, about $0.0086 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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