What is vs-claude CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for a VS Code extension and MCP server that lets Claude Code open files, inspect differences, and manipulate VS Code.

They guide development work in that project, especially file searches, type checking, testing, and version-control actions.

They set coding and review rules, including using rg for searches, fixing type errors, avoiding test mocks, and requiring direct permission before committing or pushing.

How badlogic/vs-claude configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to badlogic/vs-claude. 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/badlogic/vs-claude/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/badlogic/vs-claude

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/badlogic/vs-claude/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/badlogic/vs-claude/claude-md)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/badlogic/vs-claude/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/badlogic/vs-claude/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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 59 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 59 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00059	$0.00059
Opus 5.5	$0.00024	$0.00024
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00012
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00006

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b2436d92771f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vs-claude 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 · 4 lines

What it actually says

CRITICAL ALWAYS USE rg instead of grep via the Bash tool
NEVER commit and push without the user instructing you directly to do so
NEVER skip ignore type errors, ALWAYS fix them
NEVER create mocks in tests, always use the real deal

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.

2mo ago First seen · 4 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A b2436d92771f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vs-claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository badlogic/vs-claude (43 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 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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vs-claude: Instructions file for Claude Code