al-folio is a Jekyll starter for building academic websites, personal sites, and portfolios. It is used by academics who want a responsive site based on independently versioned plugin components.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to alshedivat/al-folio. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alshedivat/al-folio/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folioWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/alshedivat/al-folio/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/alshedivat/al-folio/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/alshedivat/al-folio/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/alshedivat/al-folio/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/alshedivat/al-folio/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01233 | $0.01233 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00493 | $0.00493 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00247 | $0.00247 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00123 | $0.00123 |
Grade A, and why
al-folio CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
`docker compose up -d` bind-mounts the repo to `/srv/jekyll` and runs `bin/entry_point.sh`, which serves with `--force_polling --destination /tmp/_site`. The build output deliberately goes to **container-local `/tmp/_sit How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 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.
@AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md (imported above) is the authoritative agent entry point: change routing, the stop sign for gem-owned paths, the three silent failure modes, and the validated command set. Keep it short and ecosystem-neutral. Cross-repo architecture — the wrapper/tag/gem delegation table, feature gating, the v1 config contract, local overrides — lives in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md; area-to-gem ownership lives in docs/BOUNDARIES.md.
Read those three before editing anything. Everything below is Claude-specific or longer-form operational detail that does not belong in the short entry point. Do not restate facts from those files here — link to them.
Daily dev loop
bundle install # ruby gems
bundle exec jekyll serve # dev server → http://localhost:4000/al-folio/ (NOTE baseurl)
bundle exec jekyll build --baseurl /al-folio # production-style build to _site/
bash test/integration_distill.sh # run ONE integration test (any of the seven in test/)
npm run test:visual:update # refresh playwright snapshots after intentional UI change
bundle exec al-folio upgrade apply --safe # deterministic codemods (font-weight-* → font-*, remote→local URLs)
bundle exec al-folio upgrade overrides diff <path> # then `overrides accept <path>` to acknowledge an override
Optional toolchains
- Jupyter posts.
bin/setup-python-depsinstalls onlyjupyterandnbconvert(viapip --user --break-system-packages) forjekyll-jupyter-notebook. It does not readrequirements.txt. Missingjupyter-nbconvertis warn-and-continue; notebook rendering is skipped. - Everything else Python.
requirements.txtis the fuller list and must be installed separately (python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt):rendercv[full]for CV rendering,scholarlyforbin/update_scholar_citations.py, plusnbconvertandpyyaml. - Responsive images.
imagemagick.enabled: trueneeds ImageMagickconvertonPATH. - Manual deploy.
bin/deployis the manualgh-pagesbuild + purgecss + force-push path; CI normally deploys.purgecssis not a devDependency — install it withnpm install -g purgecss.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 1,233 tokens per session scan A fb5bd07a2481
al-folio CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alshedivat/al-folio (16,309 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,233 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
al-folio CLAUDE.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| al-folio CLAUDE.mdalshedivat/al-folio | Instructions file | 16k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 1,233 | Claude Code |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |