Agent-First-Organization: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Agent-First-Organization CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from arklexai/Agent-First-Organization. It costs 633 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for developing Arklex, an open-source Python framework for building AI agents. They describe the required setup, coding style, pull-request format, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
They help set up the development environment, format and check Python code with Ruff, write compliant commit messages and pull requests, and run the test suite.
Why use it?
They give contributors one set of project rules, reducing avoidable review and continuous-integration failures.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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CLAUDE.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arklex - Agent-First Organization

Open-source agent-first framework for building AI agents. Python 3.10+, MIT license.

Dev setup

python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[faiss,llm]"
pip install pre-commit && pre-commit install

Code style

  • Formatter/linter: Ruff (format + check), enforced by pre-commit hooks
  • Line length: 88
  • Lint rules: E, F, I, UP, ANN, B, SIM, C4, TID (E501 ignored)
  • Format: double quotes, space indent, auto line endings
  • Absolute imports only; type annotations on all function signatures
  • No license header required (MIT)

PR conventions

  • Title: Conventional Commits format, max 72 chars
    • <type>(<scope>): <description>
    • Types: feat, fix, docs, chore, ci, build, refactor, test, perf, style, revert
    • Scope is optional but recommended (lowercase, may contain digits/hyphens/underscores)
    • Common mistakes: using component name as type (orchestrator: ...), ticket ID as type
  • Description: use the PR template. CI enforces minimum word counts:
    • Summary: 5 words, Description: 10 words, Tests: 10 words
  • Merge strategy: squash merge

Testing

pytest tests/                          # all tests
pytest tests/ -m "not integration"     # skip integration
pytest tests/ -m shopify               # specific marker
pytest tests/ --cov=arklex --cov-fail-under=45  # with coverage gate
  • Test paths: tests/ (subdirs: data, env, orchestrator, temp, utils)
  • Coverage minimum: 45% (enforced in CI)
  • Markers: integration, no_intent_mock, no_llm_mock, shopify, hubspot, hitl, slow
  • Async mode: auto (pytest-asyncio)

CI checks

  • pr-check.yml validates PR title (Conventional Commits, 72-char limit) and description sections (Summary, Description, Tests)
  • Coverage and integration test workflows run automatically on PRs

Pre-commit hooks

Configured in .pre-commit-config.yaml:

  • ruff --fix (auto-fix lint issues)
  • ruff-format (auto-format)

Docs

Documentation uses Docusaurus, located in docs/. Config: docs/docusaurus.config.js.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

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Agent-First-Organization CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository arklexai/Agent-First-Organization (699 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 633 tokens to every session, about $0.0032 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 2026-08-30.

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