What is better-agentic-ide CLAUDE.md?

A project instruction document for the better-agentic-ide repository. It defines how coding agents should work, including test-first changes, assigned tasks, verification, and project structure.

Use it as the repository's standing guidance for planning, implementing, testing, reviewing, and reporting software changes.

It gives agents consistent rules so parallel work follows the same process and does not claim a task is complete without the agreed verification.

How alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide. 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/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 901 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 901 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

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	$0.00901	$0.00901
Opus 5.5	$0.00360	$0.00360
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00180	$0.00180
Haiku 4.5	$0.00090	$0.00090

Measured 11d ago against content hash a90c87e9738b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

better-agentic-ide 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 11d 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 · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md: working in better-agentic-ide

This file is the project constitution: the standing decisions and conventions every agent follows, so parallel and later work stays consistent. It is loaded into every Claude Code session; read it first and don't contradict it.

This is an ADE project: disciplined AI development, verified, not vibed. Work flows Plan → Approve → Shard → Build → Verify, and a story is Done only when the agreed verification command passes. No agent certifies its own work.

@.ade/rules.md

If you are a Developer agent working a story

Implement ONLY the assigned story. Work test-first: write the failing test, then the minimal code to make it pass.
Follow the coding standards below and the story's acceptance criteria exactly.
Do NOT mark the story Done or self-report success. Run the verification command, report its real output, and stop. QA or the owner decides.

Agents and commands

Sub-agents in .claude/agents/: product-manager, architect, designer, scrum-master, developer, qa, devops, adversarial-reviewer. Delegate to the one that owns the work.
BMAD tasks, checklists, templates and workflows, in the version .ade/methodology names. v4: the /BMad:tasks: slash commands in .bmad-core/. v6: the skills in .claude/skills/, with work in _bmad-output/. Either way these are optional helpers you may run inside the flow. BMAD's own personas are deliberately not installed — eight of them are the same jobs as the sub-agents above, and two definitions of Done is worse than one. The ADE rules in .ade/rules.md always win: a BMAD task can never override the verification command, the Definition of Done, or anything in this file. Where they disagree, stop and surface the conflict.
adversarial-reviewer ships with a read-only tool allowlist on purpose: it judges, it does not patch. Don't widen it to "unblock" a story. qa can write, but only the story's Verification section and the journal — never the code or tests it judges.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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.

11d ago First seen · 63 lines · 901 tokens per session scan A a90c87e9738b

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better-agentic-ide CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide (45 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 901 tokens to every session, about $0.0036 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 2026-10-26.

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