lintel: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

lintel CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from bamdadd/lintel. It costs 5,377 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository guidance for Claude Code, covering the project layout, development commands, and rules for working in Lintel, an open-source platform that coordinates AI agents. It describes a Python workspace monorepo, meaning one repository containing many related packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding Lintel’s packages, dependencies, architecture, and common commands, while enforcing lint and type-check runs before commits.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the project context it needs and sets checks that must pass before code is committed. This helps prevent changes that fail linting or type checking.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bamdadd/lintel. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bamdadd/lintel

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CLAUDE.md · 321 lines

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CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Pre-Commit Rule

Before every commit, run make lint and make typecheck and fix any errors. Do not commit code that fails linting or type checking.

Project Overview

Lintel is an open-source AI collaboration infrastructure platform. It orchestrates multi-agent workflows triggered from Slack threads, using event sourcing and CQRS patterns. Built with Python 3.12+, FastAPI, LangGraph, and PostgreSQL.

Workspace Structure

This is a uv workspace monorepo with 45+ packages under packages/:

Core packages:

Package Name Dependencies Description
packages/contracts/ lintel-contracts (none) Pure domain contracts: types, commands, events, Protocol interfaces
packages/agents/ lintel-agents contracts AI agent runtime (roles: planner, coder, reviewer, pm, designer, summarizer)
packages/workflows/ lintel-workflows contracts, agents LangGraph workflow orchestration and graph nodes
packages/app/ lintel all below Thin composition root: lifespan wiring, middleware, router mounting

Reusable library packages (each independently installable):

Package Name Dependencies Description
packages/event-store/ lintel-event-store contracts Append-only event persistence (Postgres + in-memory)
packages/event-bus/ lintel-event-bus contracts In-memory pub/sub event bus
packages/projections/ lintel-projections contracts, event-bus Read-model projection engine and concrete projections
packages/persistence/ lintel-persistence contracts Generic CRUD/dict stores, vault
packages/sandbox/ lintel-sandbox contracts Docker-based code execution sandboxes
packages/pii/ lintel-pii contracts PII detection/anonymization (presidio)
packages/observability/ lintel-observability contracts OpenTelemetry tracing/metrics/logging
packages/models/ lintel-models contracts LLM provider routing (litellm)
packages/slack/ lintel-slack contracts Slack channel adapter
packages/repos/ lintel-repos contracts GitHub repository provider
packages/coordination/ lintel-coordination (asyncpg only) Database advisory locks
packages/infrastructure/ lintel-infrastructure (residual) MCP tool client only — will be dissolved

Read the full file on GitHub · 321 lines

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lintel CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bamdadd/lintel (10 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,377 tokens to every session, about $0.0215 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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