mantle: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mantle CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from aotter/mantle. It costs 103 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A short project instruction file that directs coding agents to the repository’s main task, contribution, architecture, and decision documents. AGENTS.md contains task routing, CONTRIBUTING.md contains the development contract, and docs/adr/ stores accepted architecture decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the mantle project so you know which files to read before coding, reviewing architecture, or preparing a release.
Why use it?
It keeps project rules in their canonical documents instead of copying them into multiple instruction files. This helps an agent follow the right guidance for normal work and releases.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 103 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 103 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 $0.00103 $0.00103
Opus 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00041
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00010

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fa982f99d92b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mantle 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 1mo 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 · 10 lines

What it actually says

Claude compatibility entry

Read AGENTS.md for task routing and CONTRIBUTING.md for the complete, tool-neutral contributor and architecture contract. Accepted decisions live under docs/adr/.

Release work also requires the canonical .agents/skills/mantle-release/SKILL.md. This file intentionally contains no duplicate repository rules.

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. 1mo ago Changed fa982f99d92b
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 10 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 826dc996d2d4

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mantle CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aotter/mantle (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 103 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 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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