What is abx-dl CLAUDE.md?

Development instructions for abx-dl, a command-line tool whose plugins and snapshot hooks are tested through real command-line, network, filesystem, subprocess, and Docker paths. The guide also describes its setup and release checks.

Use it to set up the project with uv, inspect the wget plugin, run repository and documentation tests, perform real crawls, and verify Docker images on supported architectures.

It tells an agent how to inspect the installed plugin system and verify behavior without replacing real integrations with fake test substitutes.

How ArchiveBox/abx-dl configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ArchiveBox/abx-dl. 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/ArchiveBox/abx-dl/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArchiveBox/abx-dl

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 571 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 571 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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	$0.00571	$0.00571
Opus 5.5	$0.00228	$0.00228
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00114	$0.00114
Haiku 4.5	$0.00057	$0.00057

Measured 25d ago against content hash 3f8be7e3a448, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

abx-dl CLAUDE.md scanned grade A 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 25d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

plugin_info="$(uv run --no-sync --no-sources abx-dl plugins wget)"

CLAUDE.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Instructions for abx-dl

Use AGENTS.md as the canonical repository guide. Keep this checkout on main, use uv for Python commands, and exercise real CLI, plugin, subprocess, network, and filesystem paths in tests. Do not add skips, xfails, retries, fake hooks, fake binaries, fake buses, or fallback binary resolution.

Development setup

set -Eeuo pipefail
uv sync --locked --dev --no-sources
help_output="$(uv run --no-sync --no-sources abx-dl --help)"
grep -q 'Usage:' <<<"$help_output"

Inspect the installed plugin surface

set -Eeuo pipefail
plugin_info="$(uv run --no-sync --no-sources abx-dl plugins wget)"
grep -q 'WGET_BINARY=wget' <<<"$plugin_info"
grep -q 'on_Snapshot__35_wget' <<<"$plugin_info"

Verification

The normal CI workflow assigns every repository test file exactly once across Linux, macOS, and every supported Python minor version. It also runs a real crawl across every Snapshot hook from the pinned abx-plugins release. The Docker workflow builds and tests both amd64 and arm64 images. Documentation snippets, including those marked docker_required, run twice daily when the source has changed since the last successful docs run. Docker snippets use the published image for that exact source revision.

Run the repository's complete static verification before publishing changes:

set -Eeuo pipefail
uv run --no-sync --no-sources prek run --all-files

Releases

Releases are automatic from main. Bump the version and its lockfile, commit, and push. The release workflow waits for the exact commit's test workflow, creates the matching GitHub release and tag, waits for the exact Docker build, and publishes the package through PyPI trusted publishing. Do not create or push tags locally.

Architecture

Plugin discovery comes from the installed abx-plugins package or the explicit ABX_PLUGINS_DIR override.
Required binaries are emitted as BinaryRequestEvent records and resolved only by abxpkg; host binaries are considered before managed providers.
Resolved host and managed binaries are projected into ABXPKG_LIB_DIR/env/bin. ABXPKG_LIB_DIR/bin is only a human convenience surface and must never be used programmatically.
Crawl setup and snapshot hooks run through the unified event state machine. Chrome readiness uses its plugin-owned file mechanism rather than a generic bus-level readiness event.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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.

25d ago Changed · +2 lines · +24 tokens per session 3f8be7e3a448
2mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 547 tokens per session scan A 22d3f89a0a7b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

abx-dl CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ArchiveBox/abx-dl (149 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 571 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 9,715 tokens

abx-dl: Instructions file for Claude Code