ab-method: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ab-method CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ayoubben18/ab-method. It costs 41 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for ab-method, a workflow system for Claude Code and Codex. It turns a problem into a domain-specific plan, then runs test-driven missions—small tasks guided by tests—or an autonomous goal loop with a verifiable stopping condition.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to plan coding problems, run reviewed test-driven tasks one at a time, or run an autonomous goal-based workflow.
Why use it?
They define how to find the right project documentation and how work should resume, plan, test, and stop with evidence.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is ayoubben18/ab-method's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ab-method 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 ab-method configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ayoubben18/ab-method. 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/ayoubben18/ab-method/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ayoubben18/ab-method

Made for: Claude Code.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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.

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Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00041
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00016
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00008
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00004

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c94d6bb3bcce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

ab-method 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 · 1 lines

What it actually says

  • you should always fallback to the .ab-method/structure/index.yaml to see where to read from files so always insist in the markdown files to look at that file first to know where to look and resume
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What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 1mo ago First seen · 1 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A c94d6bb3bcce

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ab-method CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ayoubben18/ab-method (192 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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