Octavo: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Octavo CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from artemnovichkov/Octavo. It costs 4,257 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Octavo, a small macOS app for syncing ebook libraries with Kindle devices and editing book details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on Octavo’s Swift package, macOS app, Kindle transfer code, ebook writing, icons, or release builds.
Why use it?
They give the coding agent the project’s commands, release process, and architecture in one place, reducing guesswork when changing the app.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is artemnovichkov/Octavo's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Octavo 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 Octavo configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 4,257 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,257 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 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

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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
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Opus 5 $0.02129 $0.02129
Sonnet 5 $0.00851 $0.00851
Haiku 4.5 $0.00426 $0.00426

Measured 11d ago against content hash 881a794627c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

Octavo CLAUDE.md scanned grade C 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 11d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

`rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Octavo/converted` after touching a writer, or you will test the last
CLAUDE.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this is

Octavo — a native macOS replacement for calibre (1 GB) whose job is syncing an ebook library to a Kindle Paperwhite 12 and editing metadata. SwiftPM package, no external dependencies: MTP is written directly on IOUSBHost, SQLite and zlib come from the SDK. The built .app is ~3.8 MB: 1.7 MB of it is the original binary, then Octavo.icns, then the AZW3/KF8 writer.

Two icons exist side by side, drawn by sibling scripts from the same sheet/dog-ear geometry: Resources/Octavo.icns (make-icon.swift), which make-app.sh's release build embeds, and Resources/Octavo.icon (make-liquid-icon.swift), a Liquid Glass .icon bundle — icon.json plus a transparent-background glyph PNG in Assets/, editable in Icon Composer.app (ships inside Xcode 26) — which only the Tuist-generated Octavo.xcworkspace target consumes, via ASSETCATALOG_COMPILER_APPICON_NAME in Project.swift. The plate is not rasterized for the .icon: its gradient is fill/fill-specializations in icon.json, and the system renders the rounded-square mask, glass material and specular sheen around the one foreground glyph layer.

It operates in place on the user's real calibre library at ~/Calibre Library (42 books) — same metadata.db, same folder layout, so calibre keeps working alongside it.

calibre the application is not required. CalibreLibraryStore.create(at:) lays down calibre's own schema (CalibreSchema.sql, copied verbatim from metadata_sqlite.sql, user_version=26), so a library Octavo made opens in calibre later with no migration. Which library is open is resolved by LibraryLocation: the path remembered under LibraryRoot in the org.octavo.Octavo defaults suite (a suite, not .standard, so the CLIs see what the app sees), else ~/Calibre Library if it exists, else nothing — and nothing is the welcome screen (AppModel.LibraryState.needsSetup), which is deliberately distinct from .failed: one offers to create a library, the other reports a broken one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 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. 11d ago First seen · 252 lines · 4,257 tokens per session scan C 881a794627c8

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Octavo CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository artemnovichkov/Octavo (20 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,257 tokens to every session, about $0.0213 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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