helmo: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

helmo CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from arthurcoulston/helmo. It costs 65 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Claude Code compatibility file for the Helmo repository that points to the main AGENTS.md instruction file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Claude Code opens the Helmo repository and needs to find the correct session-routing rules.
Why use it?
It keeps Claude Code pointed to the single authoritative set of repository instructions instead of duplicating them.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 65 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 65 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.00065
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00032
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00006

Measured 6d ago against content hash 04a491593d92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helmo 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 6d 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 · 7 lines

What it actually says

Claude Code shim

The canonical apparatus for this repository is AGENTS.md — read it first; it routes every session (summoned roles load only their role file; dev sessions load DEV.md). This file exists only because Claude Code looks for CLAUDE.md. Substance never lives here.

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. 6d ago First seen · 7 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 04a491593d92

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helmo CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository arthurcoulston/helmo (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session, about $0.0003 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.

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