dotfiles-claude: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

dotfiles-claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from archibate/dotfiles-claude. It costs 3,463 tokens per session, scanned B, original, no licence file.

A project-specific instruction file for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, in the dotfiles-claude repository. It records global behaviour rules, environment details, common harness problems, coding practices, and output style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asking Claude Code to work on the dotfiles-claude repository. It also serves as a reference for its development environment and expected responses.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant the repository context and working rules it needs to produce consistent changes. This helps avoid mistakes caused by unfamiliar setup or project conventions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is archibate/dotfiles-claude's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on dotfiles-claude 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 dotfiles-claude configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 3,463 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 3,463 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.03463 $0.03463
Opus 5.5 $0.01385 $0.01385
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00693 $0.00693
Haiku 4.5 $0.00346 $0.00346

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 3b2cd8196777, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

dotfiles-claude CLAUDE.md scanned grade B 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Perfer Edit/Write over sed/cat** — Edit and Write tools are the recommended interface to edit files with several benefits: 1. Diff-tracked by harness (user can easily view or revert an edit); 2. will raise an error w
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The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 2mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +127 tokens per session 3b2cd8196777
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 120 lines · 3,336 tokens per session scan B 5e544e3b49b5

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dotfiles-claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository archibate/dotfiles-claude (42 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 3,463 tokens to every session, about $0.0139 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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