co-evolution: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

co-evolution CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from alanshurafa/co-evolution. It costs 3,710 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions and tools for refining questions, documents, plans, arguments, and code workflows through repeated exchange between AI agents. Markers such as [CONTESTED] and [CLARIFY] identify points that need review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a plan, refine a specification or Markdown document, review and verify code changes, or run a build with check-in points.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear or disputed parts of a draft and helps the agents work toward agreement. Different routes cover document refinement, code changes, or longer background builds.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; runs codex exec.

This is alanshurafa/co-evolution's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on co-evolution 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 co-evolution configures →

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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 · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Co-Evolution - Cross-AI Document Refinement

Tools for bouncing questions, documents, plans, and code workflows between AI agents using structured [CONTESTED] / [CLARIFY] markers until convergence.

Default Rule

Three routes, lowest-ceremony first:

  • co-evolution (default) — bounce protocol for questions, drafts, plans, specs, arguments, and markdown refinement.
  • dev-review — interactive code pipeline (compose → bounce → execute → verify in one session) when the user wants repo files changed, a bug fixed, a feature implemented, or a code diff verified against a plan.
  • codex-build — "build with codex": the session plans and reviews, Codex executes detached, with check-ins only at gates. Reach for this when the user wants Codex to grind on a build in the background while the session stays free (the model-ladder flavor of dev-review).

Components

Co-Evolution Skill (skills/co-evolution/)

Default Claude Code skill for questions, ideas, drafts, plans, specs, arguments, prompts, and markdown document refinement.

/co-evolution Stress test this launch plan

Co-Evolve Bouncer (co-evolve-bouncer.sh)

Primary standalone runner. It can compose from a prompt, bounce an existing document, or run staged critique -> defend -> tighten passes.

bash ./co-evolve-bouncer.sh --vanilla "What is the strongest version of this argument?"
bash ./co-evolve-bouncer.sh --vanilla --bounce-only docs/plan.md
bash ./co-evolve-bouncer.sh --vanilla --chain "Should we ship this migration?"
bash ./co-evolve-bouncer.sh --vanilla --adversarial --bounce-only docs/plan.md
bash ./co-evolve-bouncer.sh --vanilla --adversarial --agents claude,claude "Same-model adversarial review"

--adversarial swaps the reviewer's 1-line role for a structured falsification persona (vendored from the compound-engineering adversarial-document-reviewer; templates/co-evolve/role-reviewer-adversarial.md). Cross-AI by default; with --agents claude,claude it is an internal same-model adversarial review. Pair with --chain or --bounces 3 on dense documents (marker-flooding risk).

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

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co-evolution CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alanshurafa/co-evolution (4 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,710 tokens to every session, about $0.0148 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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