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CLAUDE.md

skillsmith CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ApexIQ/skillsmith. It costs 960 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for Claude Code that defines project rules, a seven-stage engineering workflow, strategic alternatives, and available slash commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for planning, implementation, review, debugging, testing, documentation, refactoring, and other structured engineering tasks.
Why use it?
It gives Claude Code a consistent way to understand the repository and handle complex changes.

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 ApexIQ/skillsmith's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skillsmith 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 skillsmith configures →

not rated 5repo 5mo ago A scan 960 tokens original MIT
View source ↗ ApexIQ/skillsmith pypi.org
Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.00960 $0.00960
Opus 5 $0.00480 $0.00480
Sonnet 5 $0.00192 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00096 $0.00096

Measured 4d ago against content hash c6a6171d6ae8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skillsmith 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 4d 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 · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Prime Directives

  1. Read AGENTS.md, .agent/STATE.md, and .agent/lessons.md first.
  2. Read .agent/principles/CORE_PRINCIPLES.md for project behavioral rules.
  3. Read .agent/project_profile.yaml, and .agent/context/project-context.md.
  4. Search .agent/skills/ before implementation.
  5. Follow the 7-Stage Workflow: Discover → Plan → Build → Review → Test → Ship → Reflect.

7-Stage Workflow

  1. Discover: Audit profile, context, and code for constraints.
  2. Plan: Define minimal patch with AND/OR branches (Recursion Strategy).
  3. Build: Implement atomic changes in isolation.
  4. Review: Adversarial check for risks and regressions.
  5. Test: Identify highest-risk behavior and verify.
  6. Ship: Generate clean handoff with evidence.
  7. Reflect: Record lessons and update project state.

Strategic Branching (Brain-Aware Tooling)

  • Failure pivots: For complex tasks, if one approach (e.g., standard lib) fails, the orchestrator MUST pivot to an alternative (e.g., custom implementation) as a sibling branch.
  • Atomic Integrity: Every OR strategy must be bound by its own AND verification subgoals.

Slash Commands

Skillsmith provides 33+ specialized commands for high-fidelity engineering. Run these to maintain 100% architectural integrity:

  • Core Ops: /plan, /audit, /refactor, /ready, /sync, /profile, /report, /align.
  • Specialists: /security, /performance, /benchmark, /migrate, /bootstrap.
  • Engineering: /debug, /test, /doc, /lint, /verify, /review.
  • Agent Orchestration: [bold green]/swarm[/bold green], [bold green]/team-exec[/bold green], /compose, /evolve, /autonomous.
  • Knowledge: /context, /search, /explain, /brainstorm.
  • Workflow: /plan-feature, /implement-feature, /review-changes, /test-changes, /debug-issue, /deploy-checklist.

Delegation Policy

  • Use .claude/agents/ when specialization or parallel execution materially helps.
  • Do not delegate urgent blocking work that can be completed directly.
  • Keep one clear subtask per subagent and avoid overlapping write scope.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 4d ago First seen · 80 lines · 960 tokens per session scan A c6a6171d6ae8

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skillsmith CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ApexIQ/skillsmith (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 960 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 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 2026-09-03.

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