TRACE: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

TRACE CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from axakon/TRACE. It costs 11 tokens per session, scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of instructions for an AI coding agent working in the TRACE code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Following TRACE's repository instructions during coding tasks.
Why use it?
It gives the agent project-specific guidance instead of leaving its working rules undefined.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is axakon/TRACE's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on TRACE 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 TRACE configures →

View source ↗ axakon/TRACE
Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for TRACE CLAUDE.md

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/axakon/trace/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/axakon/trace/claude-md)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/axakon/trace/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/axakon/trace/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for TRACE CLAUDE.md

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/axakon/trace/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/axakon/trace/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 11 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 11 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 $0.00011 $0.00011
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00004
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00002
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00001

Measured 2mo ago against content hash bdbbdef5c755, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

TRACE 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 2mo 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 · 1 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 1 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A bdbbdef5c755

Subscribe to this mod's changes

TRACE CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository axakon/TRACE (6 stars, last pushed 23d ago), with no licence file. It adds 11 tokens to every session, about $0.0000 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.

Related

TRACE CLAUDE.md compared with instructions from other repositories

TRACE CLAUDE.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
ModTypeStarsLast pushLicenceScanTokensWorks with
TRACE CLAUDE.mdaxakon/TRACEInstructions file623d agononeA11Claude Code
vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscodeInstructions file195kyesterdayMITA9,719GitHub Copilot
next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.jsInstructions file143kyesterdayMITA7,461Codex, OpenCode
langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchainInstructions file149kyesterdayMITA4,680Codex, OpenCode
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscodeInstructions file195kyesterdayMITA5,516GitHub Copilot
vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscodeInstructions file195kyesterdayMITA3,093GitHub Copilot
deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harnessInstructions file274k2d agoMITA4,313Codex, OpenCode