claude-devkit CLAUDE.md

Repository instructions for Claude Devkit, a development toolkit containing skills, agents, generators, and templates for Claude Code. They set rules for planning changes, keeping solutions simple, and editing only what is needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when modifying Claude Devkit or following its coding conventions for interactive, automated, or one-off development work.
Why use it?
They help an agent avoid unnecessary features, broad refactoring, and changes made without clear assumptions. They also point to the project's fuller reference and setup guides.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit
Per session 945 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 945 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00945 $0.00945
Opus 5 $0.00473 $0.00473
Sonnet 5 $0.00189 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00094 $0.00094

Measured 3d ago against content hash a787c6044f20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-devkit 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 3d 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 · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Devkit

Version: 1.0.0 Last Updated: 2026-08-21 Purpose: Unified development toolkit for Claude Code - skills, agents, generators, and templates

For full architecture, skill registry, workflows, and troubleshooting, see REFERENCE.md. For a getting-started tutorial, see GETTING_STARTED.md.

Coding Guidelines

These apply to all work in this project — interactive, headless, ad hoc, or skill-driven.

1. Think Before Coding

  • State assumptions explicitly. If uncertain, ask.
  • If multiple interpretations exist, present them — don't pick silently.
  • If a simpler approach exists, say so. Push back when warranted.
  • If something is unclear, stop. Name what's confusing. Ask.

2. Simplicity First

  • No features beyond what was asked.
  • No abstractions for single-use code.
  • No "flexibility" or "configurability" that wasn't requested.
  • No error handling for impossible scenarios.
  • If you write 200 lines and it could be 50, rewrite it.

3. Surgical Changes

When editing existing code:

  • Don't "improve" adjacent code, comments, or formatting.
  • Don't refactor things that aren't broken.
  • Match existing style, even if you'd do it differently.
  • If you notice unrelated dead code, mention it — don't delete it.

When your changes create orphans:

  • Remove imports/variables/functions that YOUR changes made unused.
  • Don't remove pre-existing dead code unless asked.

Every changed line should trace directly to the request.

4. Goal-Driven Execution

Transform tasks into verifiable goals:

  • "Add validation" -> "Write tests for invalid inputs, then make them pass"
  • "Fix the bug" -> "Write a test that reproduces it, then make it pass"
  • "Refactor X" -> "Ensure tests pass before and after"

5. Output Rules

  • Always print full absolute paths for artifact references (plan files, review files, audit logs). Makes paths clickable in Warp terminal.

Project Rules

Python

  • stdlib only for all scripts in scripts/. No external dependencies.
  • Atomic writes via _atomic_write_json() or temp-file-then-rename.
  • Validation tuples (bool, error_msg) for validation functions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 3d ago First seen · 116 lines · 945 tokens per session scan A a787c6044f20

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-devkit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit (15 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 945 tokens to every session, about $0.0047 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 2026-08-30.

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