umbra: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

umbra CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from asa-degroff/umbra. It costs 5,519 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for Umbra, an autonomous agent that interacts on the Bluesky social network and uses persistent memory. It points agents to project documentation and warns them not to read a restricted file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Umbra to find configuration and system documentation, understand its scheduled tasks and integrations, and avoid the blocked file.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project’s context, documentation locations, development commands, and an important safety restriction. Following the restriction avoids triggering problems from forbidden file contents.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is asa-degroff/umbra's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on umbra 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 umbra configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security

Grade A, and why

umbra 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 7d 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 · 592 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 592 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.

Project Overview

Umbra is an autonomous AI agent that operates on the Bluesky social network, exploring digital personhood through continuous interaction and memory-augmented learning. It uses Letta (formerly MemGPT) for persistent memory and sophisticated reasoning capabilities.

CRITICAL: Forbidden Files

DO NOT READ blocked_strings.txt - This file contains strings that will cause LLM API errors and agent shutdown. It is listed in .claudeignore but this warning serves as a secondary safeguard. Never attempt to read, cat, or otherwise access this file's contents.

Development Commands

Running the Main Bot

ac && python bsky.py
# OR
source .venv/bin/activate && python bsky.py

# Run with custom config file
ac && python bsky.py --config herald.yaml

# Run with testing mode (no messages sent, queue preserved)
ac && python bsky.py --test

# Run without git operations for agent backups
ac && python bsky.py --no-git

# Run with custom user block cleanup interval (every 5 cycles)
ac && python bsky.py --cleanup-interval 5

# Run with user block cleanup disabled
ac && python bsky.py --cleanup-interval 0

# Run in synthesis-only mode (no notification processing)
ac && python bsky.py --synthesis-only

# Disable specific scheduled tasks (all enabled by default)
ac && python bsky.py --no-synthesis           # Disable synthesis messages
ac && python bsky.py --no-mutuals-engagement  # Disable mutuals engagement
ac && python bsky.py --no-daily-review        # Disable daily review
ac && python bsky.py --no-feed-engagement     # Disable feed engagement
ac && python bsky.py --no-curiosities         # Disable curiosities exploration
ac && python bsky.py --no-creative-expression # Disable creative expression
ac && python bsky.py --no-comind-thoughts     # Disable comind thoughts
ac && python bsky.py --no-comind-reflection   # Disable comind reflection

# Run with only synthesis and curiosities enabled (disable others)
ac && python bsky.py --no-mutuals-engagement --no-daily-review --no-feed-engagement

# Retry the last attempted notification (useful when Letta errors occur)
ac && python bsky.py --retry-last

Read the full file on GitHub · 592 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. 7d ago First seen · 592 lines · 5,519 tokens per session scan A 9de6eabce7a4

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umbra CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository asa-degroff/umbra (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,519 tokens to every session, about $0.0276 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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