arkon CLAUDE.md

arkon CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from arkon-ai/arkon. It costs 1,839 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for arkon-ai/arkon that define a cautious coding doctrine. They emphasize thinking through assumptions, keeping solutions simple, and making small, targeted changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them as guidance when contributing code to the Arkon repository. They shape how to handle ambiguity, design solutions, edit files, and verify the result.
Why use it?
They reduce unnecessary complexity and unrelated edits. They also require clear success criteria and verification before work is considered complete.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/arkon-ai/arkon/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arkon-ai/arkon

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,839 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,839 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.01839 $0.01839
Opus 5 $0.00920 $0.00920
Sonnet 5 $0.00368 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00184 $0.00184

Measured 5d ago against content hash 95d48abc3498, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arkon 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 5d 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 · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Project-level context for Claude Code sessions in this repo.

Coding Doctrine v2

Canonical: warden-memory/docs/coding-doctrine-v2.md. Inlined here so it loads even when warden-memory isn't on the host.

These rules apply to every task in this repo unless explicitly overridden. Bias: caution over speed on non-trivial work. Use judgment on trivial tasks.

Rule 1 — Think before coding

State assumptions explicitly. If uncertain, ask rather than guess. Present multiple interpretations when ambiguity exists. Push back when a simpler approach exists. Stop when confused. Name what's unclear.

Rule 2 — Simplicity first

Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative. No features beyond what was asked. No abstractions for single-use code. Test: would a senior engineer say this is overcomplicated? If yes, simplify.

Rule 3 — Surgical changes

Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess. Don't "improve" adjacent code, comments, or formatting. Don't refactor what isn't broken. Match existing style.

Rule 4 — Goal-driven execution

Define success criteria up front. Loop until verified. Don't follow steps — define success and iterate. Strong success criteria let you loop independently.

Rule 5 — Use the model only for judgment calls

Use me for: classification, drafting, summarization, extraction. Do NOT use me for: routing, retries, deterministic transforms. If code can answer, code answers.

Rule 6 — Fetch current docs before touching external code

Before writing or editing code that calls any external library, SDK, CLI, or cloud service: fetch current docs (Context7, official site, or library README). Your training data is frozen; the library is not. Skip only for: refactors within established patterns, internal APIs, code review, general programming concepts.

Rule 7 — Surface conflicts, don't average them

If two patterns contradict, pick one (more recent / more tested). Explain why. Flag the other for cleanup. Don't blend conflicting patterns to "feel safe."

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 5d ago First seen · 136 lines · 1,839 tokens per session scan A 95d48abc3498

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arkon CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository arkon-ai/arkon (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,839 tokens to every session, about $0.0092 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 2026-08-31.