astramem-local: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

astramem-local CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from astragenie/astramem-local. It costs 2,773 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project-specific instructions for Claude Code in astramem-local. They explain which documents to read, how to use memory, and which project decisions are already settled.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for guiding non-trivial coding, reviews, planning, issue tracing, and recording verified project facts.
Why use it?
They reduce the chance that an agent relies on outdated information or revisits decisions unnecessarily.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is astragenie/astramem-local's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on astramem-local 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 astramem-local configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 2,773 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 $0.02773 $0.02773
Opus 5 $0.01386 $0.01386
Sonnet 5 $0.00555 $0.00555
Haiku 4.5 $0.00277 $0.00277

Measured 9d ago against content hash 65c7aa5f6497, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

astramem-local 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 9d 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 · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — astramem-local

@AGENTS.md

The include above is the tool-agnostic scaffold (commands, structure, style, credentials, never-do). Everything below is astramem-local-specific: mission, decisions an agent must not re-litigate, and where volatile state lives. This file changes rarely by design — dated facts, eval numbers, and open/closed incidents live in docs/memory.md.

Session protocol — memory + issue tracing (mandatory, not advisory)

Before any non-trivial work (feature, fix, review, plan):

  1. Read docs/memory.md in full. It is the ONLY source for dated corrections, current LoCoMo/ eval numbers, known open gaps, and closed-incident records — CLAUDE.md deliberately contains none of that. Skipping it means working on stale assumptions (this file itself used to embed that state directly; the 2026-07-21 rebuild extracted it for exactly this reason).
  2. Re-verify before relying. docs/eval-runs/LEDGER.md numbers and docs/memory.md's dated bullets are a cache, not the truth — re-check against the cited source (a test file, a config constant, a migration) before quoting either in a decision.
  3. Write-back is part of the task. Any fact you verify, any number that moved, any incident that closed: update docs/memory.md in the same session — supersede the entry in place and refresh its date. A session that learns something and doesn't write it back is a defect.

Mission

astramem-local is a local-first memory daemon for AI coding agents — it captures every Claude Code session transcript, distills typed memories (decisions, facts, lessons, commands, todos) through an 8-stage pipeline, and serves them back via hybrid search, entirely on the user's workstation with no cloud account required. It is wire-compatible with the astramem-plugin Claude Code plugin and the memory SaaS backend (shared atom/retrieval/capture/sync contracts). Per the kb strategy research, astramem-local is the flagship product the company is built around (see ../kb/12-research/astra-strategy-2026-07/README.md, machine-local path).

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 9d ago First seen · 139 lines · 2,773 tokens per session scan A 65c7aa5f6497

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astramem-local CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository astragenie/astramem-local (0 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,773 tokens to every session, about $0.0139 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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