wp-calypso: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

wp-calypso CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Automattic/wp-calypso. It costs 127 tokens per session, scanned A, original, GPL-2.0.

Project-specific instructions for working in wp-calypso, the JavaScript and API codebase behind WordPress.com.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for guiding code changes and other agent tasks in the wp-calypso project.
Why use it?
They give the coding agent the context and rules needed to work consistently in that repository.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is Automattic/wp-calypso's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on wp-calypso 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 wp-calypso configures →

About the project

Automattic/wp-calypso is the JavaScript front end for WordPress.com, using a single-page web application and the WordPress.com REST API to provide a dashboard for reading, writing, and managing WordPress sites. It is used by WordPress.com users and contributors working on the dashboard. The catalogue items support coding-agent work on this application.

Automattic/wp-calypso · 12,650 stars · on GitHub · developer.wordpress.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Automattic/wp-calypso. 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/Automattic/wp-calypso/trunk/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 127 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 127 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 unknown 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 $0.00127 $0.00127
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.00051
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00013

Measured today against content hash 7445e4a9d1b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wp-calypso 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 today.

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 · 4 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-2.0

The repository is licensed GPL-2.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. today First seen · 4 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 7445e4a9d1b8

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wp-calypso CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Automattic/wp-calypso (12,650 stars, last pushed today), licensed GPL-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session, about $0.0005 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 2026-11-07.

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