skeleton: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skeleton CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from alexwoo-awso/skeleton. It costs 942 tokens per session, scanned C, a copy of skeleton AGENTS.md, MIT.

A guidance file for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, in one software project. It describes the project, its architecture, important integrations, setup and development commands, testing, and code-quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the project with Claude Code or another tool that reads Claude-style instructions. It covers setup, local development, tests, quality checks, and rules such as keeping changes simple and avoiding duplicated code.
Why use it?
It gives the coding assistant the project background and working rules it needs before changing code. This reduces repeated setup questions and helps avoid known mistakes recorded in project notes.

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 alexwoo-awso/skeleton's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skeleton 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 skeleton configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to alexwoo-awso/skeleton. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexwoo-awso/skeleton

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5 $0.00471 $0.00471
Sonnet 5 $0.00188 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00094 $0.00094

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Security

Grade C, and why

skeleton CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 2 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 7d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

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Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

- **Best approach:** Use cross-platform code that doesn't need output suppression (e.g., `subprocess.DEVNULL` in Python, `stdio: 'ignore'` in Node.js).
Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to skeleton AGENTS.md — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 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.

Other AI tools: See AGENTS.md for the universal instruction file compatible with Codex CLI, OpenClaw, Cursor, Aider, and other AGENTS.md-compatible tools.


Project Overview

Project Name - Brief description of what the project does.

Architecture

Key Integration Points


Development Commands

Setup

# Initial setup steps

Development

# How to run the project locally

Testing

# How to run tests

Code Quality

# Linting, formatting, type checking commands

Architecture Deep Dive

Database Layer

Configuration System

Authentication


Critical Development Rules

These rules prevent recurring bugs documented in TODO.md and LESSONS_LEARNED.md:

1. KISS and DRY

  • KISS: Only add what's requested or clearly necessary. No premature optimization or abstraction.
  • DRY: Extract common patterns to shared functions. Use config files for repeated values.

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 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. 7d ago First seen · 165 lines · 942 tokens per session scan C ea85563f5eb8

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skeleton CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alexwoo-awso/skeleton (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 942 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (hidden instructions, runs shell commands). It is 88% identical to skeleton AGENTS.md, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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