cranelisp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cranelisp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from alilee/cranelisp. It costs 6,213 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for Cranelisp, a programming-language project. They describe the repository layout, where specifications and designs live, and rules such as reading nearby CLAUDE.md files before editing.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for guiding development of the compiler, libraries, documentation, examples, and end-to-end tests in this repository.
Why use it?
They provide local conventions and ownership information so a coding agent can work in the right files and follow the project's process. The input does not describe a standalone feature.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is alilee/cranelisp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cranelisp 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 cranelisp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade A, and why

cranelisp 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 yesterday.

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 · 270 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cranelisp

First Steps

Before doing any work, find all CLAUDE.md files in the project:

glob **/CLAUDE.md

Before doing work in any directory, read all CLAUDE.md files in that directory and every parent directory up to the project root. Local CLAUDE.md files contain conventions and context specific to nearby files.

Project Layout

Directory Purpose
spec/ Language specification — owned by spec (scribe; the user arbitrates semantics)
design/ Architecture and per-crate implementation design — design/arch/ owned by arch, design/{crate}/ by design
src/ Compiler binary crate — pipeline, REPL, CLI, session
crates/ Bounded-context library crates (types, frontend, typecheck, backend, primitives, intrinsics, platform, exe-bundle)
user/ User-facing documentation — owned by docs
stdlib/ Standard library in Cranelisp — a dev surface
examples/ Learning sequence — owned by training
exemplar/ Showcase project (Sudoku Solver) — a dev surface
repl/ REPL experience spec (spec), demos and harness (test)
tests/ E2e suite — plan owned by qa, test sources by test
audits/ Whole-context audit assessments — owned by audit
sprints/ Delivery coordination — method, roadmap, current sprint, actions, archive — owned by sprint
.agents/ The shared role package, pinned as a submodule (.agents/CONSUMING.md)

Sketch Oracle (retired)

The prototype compiler that lived in sketch/ was deleted at the close of Sprint 87 (pre-Phase-H hygiene): language semantics are frozen, and the reimplementation's own references (design/{crate}/, audits/, spec/) long ago superseded it. If a spec ambiguity ever needs the original oracle's behaviour, recover the sketch from git history rather than treating it as a live reference. Historical mentions of the sketch throughout design/, sprints/, and audits/ are an accurate record of past consultations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 270 lines

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cranelisp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alilee/cranelisp (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6,213 tokens to every session, about $0.0311 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 2026-09-04.

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