cognithor: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cognithor CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Alex8791-cyber/cognithor. It costs 1,964 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository guidance for AI coding assistants working on Cognithor, a local-first operating system for autonomous agents. It explains the code layout, architecture, and important project conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asking an AI assistant to inspect, edit, or test Cognithor code. It helps locate backend, app, integration, and test files.
Why use it?
It gives an assistant the background needed to make changes that fit this large Python and Flutter project. It also points to the test structure and project-specific rules.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is Alex8791-cyber/cognithor's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cognithor 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 cognithor configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Alex8791-cyber/cognithor. 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/Alex8791-cyber/cognithor/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Alex8791-cyber/cognithor

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cognithor 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 10d 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 · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Context for AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) working in this repository.

What this is

Cognithor · Agent OS — local-first autonomous agent operating system. Python backend (FastAPI gateway, PGE-Trinity orchestration; default backend is Ollama-served qwen3 models, with vLLM, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and ~15 other backends as opt-in alternatives; 141 MCP tools across 30 modules — auto-generated into docs/integrations/catalog.json on every release) + Flutter Command Center (~200 Dart files, 60+ screens spread across feature areas + a Config sub-tree, 27 providers, 4 locales).

Owner: Alexander Söllner. License: Apache 2.0. PyPI: pip install cognithor. Current release: see pyproject.toml ([project] version).

Source layout

Path What lives here
src/cognithor/ Python source. 43 subpackages. Foundational: core/, mcp/, channels/, crew/, gateway/, memory/, security/, skills/.
tests/ Pytest, 17 000+ test functions across 868+ files, asyncio_mode=auto. Mirror-structure under tests/test_<package>/. Authoritative count: pytest --collect-only -q tests/ | tail -5.
flutter_app/ Flutter Command Center, package name cognithor_ui. UI lib at lib/, tests at test/, integration at integration_test/.
docs/ Architecture, ADRs, API reference, superpowers specs+plans.
scripts/ Bootstrapping + maintenance utilities (preflight_check.py, bootstrap_windows.py, etc.).
cognithor_bench/ In-monorepo benchmark scaffold with own pyproject.toml.
examples/ Reference impls (insurance-agent-pack/) + tutorial (quickstart/).

Architecture in one paragraph

User input enters via a channel (CLI / Telegram / WebUI / 14+ others) → gateway routes to PGE-Trinity (Planner formulates a plan, Gatekeeper classifies risk GREEN/YELLOW/ORANGE/RED, Executor runs the steps). All three are qwen3 models served by Ollama by default (vLLM is an opt-in alternative for NVIDIA GPUs). Persistence: 6-tier memory (memory/), HMAC-SHA-256 hash-chained audit JSONL (hashline/), optional Postgres (db/). Live observability: crew.trace_bus.TraceBus → REST /api/crew/* + WebSocket crew_*_subscribe frames → Flutter Trace-UI screen. Skills, Agent Packs, and MCP tools are dynamically loaded. Operator-driven batch work runs through CRWE (cognithor.core.workflow.WorkflowRunner + cognithor task <manifest> CLI, v0.99.0): JSONL streaming, atomic checkpoint, file-locking, SIGINT/SIGTERM emergency-checkpoint, audit-chain integration. Six append-only ledgers (Provenance, Permission-Scopes, Tool-Fingerprints, Cloud-Escalation, Cost in micro-USD, Migration) plus signed run-receipts ship operational-trust guarantees end-to-end (TRUST-1..10).

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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.

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cognithor CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Alex8791-cyber/cognithor (154 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,964 tokens to every session, about $0.0098 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 2026-08-30.

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