What is batty CLAUDE.md?

Repository instructions for Batty, a Rust command-line system that runs a coordinated team of coding agents inside terminal windows. They describe its architecture, tools, configuration files, and development principles.

They help agents set up and modify Batty, understand its Rust source and runtime components, work with YAML configuration and Markdown tasks, and follow its development guidance.

They give agents the project context needed to change Batty without guessing how its agents, terminal sessions, task board, and logs fit together. They also identify the required technologies and file formats.

batty CLAUDE.md — Instructions file for coding agents by battysh: Repository instructions for Batty, a Rust command-line system that…

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods

npx agentmods add instructions/battysh/batty/claude-md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/battysh/batty

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

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Your own site

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Per session 1,511 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,511 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

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.01511	$0.01511
Opus 5	$0.00756	$0.00756
Sonnet 5	$0.00302	$0.00302
Haiku 4.5	$0.00151	$0.00151

Measured 4d ago against content hash a3b18b255bc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

batty 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 4d 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 · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Batty — Agent Instructions

What Is This Project

Batty is a hierarchical agent command system for software development. It runs a small team of agents inside tmux, routes messages between roles, tracks work on a shared Markdown board, and keeps the whole run visible in the terminal.

See planning/architecture.md for the system design and planning/dev-philosophy.md for development principles.

Tech Stack

Language: Rust
CLI framework: clap
Terminal runtime: tmux (pane layout, display-only surfaces when shim mode is active, session persistence)
Agent shim: PTY-owning subprocess per agent, screen classification, structured socketpair protocol (src/shim/)
PTY support: portable-pty (used by shim runtime for agent PTY management)
Async runtime: tokio
Config format: YAML (.batty/team_config/team.yaml)
Board format: Markdown tasks with YAML frontmatter
Execution logs: JSON lines

Project Structure

src/               # Rust source
  shim/            # Agent shim runtime (PTY, state classifier, protocol, chat)
docs/              # User and reference documentation
assets/            # Static assets (images, demos)
scripts/           # Utility scripts
planning/          # Architecture, roadmap, philosophy docs
.agents/           # Codex agent rules/skills
.claude/           # Claude agent rules/skills
.batty/
  team_config/
    team.yaml      # Team topology, routing, layout, timing
    *.md           # Role prompts used to launch architect/manager/engineer agents
    board/         # Shared task board and task files
    events.jsonl   # Team event log

Development Principles

Compose, don't monolith. Use existing CLI tools where possible.
Markdown as backend. Keep state human-readable and git-versioned.
Minimal code. Build the smallest thing that works.
No premature abstraction. Prefer obvious code over clever indirection.
Test what matters. Focus on tmux supervision, message routing, board state, and prompt handling.
Extensive unit tests. Every module gets #[cfg(test)] coverage for happy paths, edge cases, and failures. Run cargo test before committing. If a task adds code, it adds tests.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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.

4d ago First seen · 137 lines · 1,511 tokens per session scan A a3b18b255bc0

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batty CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository battysh/batty (53 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,511 tokens to every session, about $0.0076 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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