terse-sharp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

terse-sharp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from amusleh-spotware-com/terse-sharp. It costs 18,141 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for TerseSharp, a .NET tool that helps an AI assistant navigate, edit, and refactor C# code by understanding its symbols and structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when Claude Code changes, builds, searches, refactors, or tests this C# project.
Why use it?
They require the project to be developed and tested through TerseSharp, keeping the tool useful and ensuring changes have end-to-end tests.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is amusleh-spotware-com/terse-sharp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on terse-sharp 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 terse-sharp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to amusleh-spotware-com/terse-sharp. 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/amusleh-spotware-com/terse-sharp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amusleh-spotware-com/terse-sharp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 18,141 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 18,141 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.18141 $0.18141
Opus 5.5 $0.07256 $0.07256
Sonnet 5.5 $0.03628 $0.03628
Haiku 4.5 $0.01814 $0.01814

Measured 20d ago against content hash 683f58822ee8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terse-sharp 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 20d 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 · 900 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 900 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.

What this is

TerseSharp is a Roslyn-powered MCP server shipped as the .NET global tool terse (package id TerseSharp, assembly name terse). It gives a coding agent semantic navigation, editing and refactoring of a C# solution so it never has to Read/Grep/line-Edit a .cs file.

Prime directive, stated in the README and used to settle design arguments: save tokens, increase speed. A tool that does not beat the built-in it replaces does not ship, and a tool without an E2E test is not done.

🚫 HARD GATE — develop TerseSharp with TerseSharp

Every read, search, edit, refactor, build and test of this repository goes through the installed terse MCP server: get_file_outline / get_symbol_source instead of Read, search_symbols / find_usages instead of Grep, find_files instead of Glob, replace_symbol_body / replace_symbol / add_member instead of Edit, read_text / edit_text / write_text for .md, .csproj, .slnx and .json, build and run_tests instead of shelling out to dotnet, and changed_files / diff_symbols / diff_text instead of Bash: git status / git diff, history instead of git log / git show --stat / git ls-remote --tags and read_text ref= / get_file_outline ref= instead of git show <ref>:<path> — so only git blame and index/history mutation (git add, git commit, git tag, git push) stay on Bash.

This is not style. This repo is the one place where the server is driven by the agent that also maintains it, so every session is the product's own usability test. Friction you route around with a built-in is a defect you never see: the fallback is silent, it feels faster in the moment, and it is exactly the failure mode measured in competing servers (agents that cannot find or trust a tool fall back to the shell and spend more tokens than with no MCP at all).

Read the full file on GitHub · 900 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. 20d ago Changed · +9 tokens per session 683f58822ee8
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +101 tokens per session 8f1eb13fa89d
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines · +154 tokens per session 8a4f2f58b268
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines · +190 tokens per session 3e06dcf197be
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +9 tokens per session 9e37165c4908
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines · +65 tokens per session 65842a0de92f
  7. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines · +167 tokens per session 2cbceadebbf2
  8. 2mo ago First seen · 875 lines · 17,446 tokens per session scan A 32991d80f226

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terse-sharp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository amusleh-spotware-com/terse-sharp (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18,141 tokens to every session, about $0.0726 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 2026-08-31.

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