What is statcite CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for StatCite, a codebase that provides cited economic statistics through an API and MCP server. They describe the project layout, commands, and rules that must not be broken.

Use them when working on StatCite, especially its server, website, Apify actor, skill, distribution files, or documentation.

They give an agent the project's goals and constraints before it changes code, reducing the risk of violating important design decisions or invariants.

How asokore/statcite configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to asokore/statcite. 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/asokore/statcite/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/asokore/statcite

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 2,279 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,279 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02279	$0.02279
Opus 5.5	$0.00912	$0.00912
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00456	$0.00456
Haiku 4.5	$0.00228	$0.00228

Measured 1mo ago against content hash aef009613f13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

statcite 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 1mo 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 · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md: StatCite project guide

New to this project? Read BRIEF.md first. It carries the owner's actual goal, the reasoning behind every choice here, what I'd challenge about my own work, ideas considered but not built, and explicit authority to change or replace any of it. This file is the operating manual; BRIEF.md is the mandate.

Also read docs/VENTURE-CONTEXT.md if present (imported 2026-07-26; local-only by design, gitignored, never commit it). It carries owner-sensitive strategic context this repo was built without, including a proposed repricing that contradicts docs/MONETIZATION.md. If it is absent (fresh clone), ask the owner rather than proceeding without it; the public-safe competitive facts from it live in docs/RESEARCH.md §4a.

StatCite is a free remote MCP server + REST API serving official economic statistics where every number carries a full citation, plus a verify_stat claim-checker and its batch form verify_claims. Monorepo: Cloudflare Worker (server/), static site (site/), Apify pay-per-event actor twin (apify/), Claude skill (skill/), distribution kit (distribution/), strategy docs (docs/).

If the task is "take this live" or "deploy": follow HANDOFF.md step by step, but read BRIEF.md §4 and §9 first and decide whether shipping as-is is actually the right move. Growth sequence: docs/LAUNCH.md.

Branch topology and the embargo guard: read before your first push

This repository is public. Local main is not what ships.

main carries the R2 benchmark RESULTS (bench/runs/R2*), which stay off the public remote until the vendor courtesy-preview window closes. bench/questions/R2* and bench/snapshots/R2* are pre-registered and public by design; only runs/ is embargoed.
public-sync is the branch that actually publishes. It excludes bench/runs/R2*.

Never git push from main. To publish work, put the commit on public-sync and push that:

git checkout public-sync
git cherry-pick <sha>          # or: git checkout main -- <safe paths>
git push origin public-sync:main
git checkout main

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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.

1mo ago Changed · +8 lines · +139 tokens per session aef009613f13
1mo ago Changed · +76 tokens per session 26a685c5cc60
2mo ago First seen · 70 lines · 2,064 tokens per session scan A b1c11c3aa1c5

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statcite CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository asokore/statcite (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 2,279 tokens to every session, about $0.0091 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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