autonomous-os: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

autonomous-os CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from autonomous-ai/autonomous-os. It costs 4,122 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for Autonomous OS, an AI-controlled system developed with Cursor and Claude Code. They require matching English and Vietnamese documentation whenever code changes affect behavior, architecture, or APIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing the server, API, setup process, web interface, monitoring flows, MQTT messaging, or device-management features.
Why use it?
They reduce documentation drift and make changes understandable to users of both supported languages and development environments.

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 autonomous-ai/autonomous-os's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on autonomous-os 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 autonomous-os configures →

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CLAUDE.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 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.

Multi-IDE Rules (Cursor + Claude Code)

This repo is developed in both Cursor and Claude Code. The following rules (from .cursor/rules/) apply to all code changes:

  1. Update docs on code change — When you change code that affects behavior, architecture, or APIs, update both the English and Vietnamese docs to match. Keep numbers, flows, endpoints, and states 100% accurate with the code. Platform docs are in docs/; lamp-specific docs are in robots/lamp/docs/.

    Platform docs (docs/ + docs/vi/):

    Code area English doc Vietnamese doc
    os-server, API, startup docs/os-server.md docs/vi/os-server_vi.md
    Setup flow, provisioning docs/setup-flow.md docs/vi/setup-flow_vi.md
    Web UI, configuration pages docs/web-ui.md docs/vi/web-ui_vi.md
    Flow Monitor (turn pipeline, JSONL, SSE) docs/flow-monitor.md docs/vi/flow-monitor_vi.md
    Overall structure docs/overview.md docs/vi/overview_vi.md
    MQTT, dispatch, publish docs/mqtt.md docs/vi/mqtt_vi.md
    OTA, bootstrap docs/bootstrap-ota.md docs/vi/bootstrap-ota.md
    Speech emotion recognition (SER) docs/speech-emotion.md docs/vi/speech-emotion_vi.md
    Laptop simulator (make sim / os-dev / web-dev, off-device env, config seeding) docs/simulator.md docs/vi/simulator_vi.md
    Realtime voice agent (HAL realtime, Gemini Live / OpenAI Realtime, delegate) docs/realtime-voice.md docs/vi/realtime-voice_vi.md
    Perception service (cloud DL inference), load balancer, encryption, models docs/perception-service.md docs/vi/perception-service_vi.md
    Hermes agent backend (agent_runtime, runtimes/hermes) docs/agentic/hermes.md docs/vi/agentic/hermes_vi.md
    PicoClaw agent backend (agent_runtime, runtimes/picoclaw, WebSocket) docs/agentic/picoclaw.md docs/vi/agentic/picoclaw_vi.md
    Codex agent backend (agent_runtime, runtimes/codex, WS bridge) docs/agentic/codex.md docs/vi/agentic/codex_vi.md
    Claude Code agent backend (agent_runtime, runtimes/claudecode, bridge WebSocket, native Telegram channel plugin) docs/agentic/claudecode.md docs/vi/agentic/claudecode_vi.md
    OpenCode agent backend (agent_runtime, runtimes/opencode, bridge WebSocket, opencode run --format json per turn) docs/agentic/opencode.md docs/vi/agentic/opencode_vi.md
    Adding/changing an agentic backend (AgentGateway contract, switch, install/presync, migration, skills, hooks, reset) docs/agentic/adding-agent-runtime.md docs/vi/agentic/adding-agent-runtime_vi.md
    Remote Hermes over LAN (Intern 2 as voice frontend for a Hermes server on the user's Mac, setup script, URL/token, verify) docs/agentic/remote-hermes.md docs/vi/agentic/remote-hermes_vi.md
    Safety engine (SAFETY.md bounds, deterministic enforcement gate) docs/safety.md docs/vi/safety_vi.md
    Device telemetry (adding a tracker, hal/telemetry, system/telemetry, /api/telemetry/event) docs/telemetry.md docs/vi/telemetry_vi.md
    Voice response metrics (hal/telemetry, system/telemetry, /api/telemetry/event) docs/voice-metrics.md docs/vi/voice-metrics_vi.md

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