What is retain CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for Retain, a native macOS app that collects AI conversations from different services into one searchable knowledge base.

Understanding the SwiftUI interface, application state, conversation syncing, file watching, and web-based imports from AI services.

They describe the app's architecture and data sources so development work can follow the existing design.

How BayramAnnakov/retain configures Claude Code

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Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 3,435 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	$0.03435	$0.03435
Opus 5.5	$0.01374	$0.01374
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00687	$0.00687
Haiku 4.5	$0.00344	$0.00344

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6d2a027217cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retain 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 · 359 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 359 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retain

Native macOS app that aggregates AI conversations from multiple platforms into a unified, searchable knowledge base with intelligent learning extraction.

GitHub: https://github.com/BayramAnnakov/retain

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                         SwiftUI                              │
│  ContentView → ConversationDetailView, MenuBarView, etc.    │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                    AppState (@MainActor)                     │
│  - conversations, searchResults, syncState                   │
│  - manages all UI state and coordinates services             │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                        Services                              │
│  ┌─────────────┐  ┌─────────────┐  ┌────────────────────┐   │
│  │ SyncService │  │ FileWatcher │  │  WebSyncEngine     │   │
│  │ (actor)     │  │ (FSEvents)  │  │  (claude.ai/gpt)   │   │
│  └──────┬──────┘  └──────┬──────┘  └─────────┬──────────┘   │
│         └────────────────┴───────────────────┘              │
│                          │                                   │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│
│  │  ConversationRepository / LearningRepository (GRDB)     ││
│  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘│
│                          │                                   │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐│
│  │  SQLite + FTS5 (~/.../Retain/retain.sqlite)            ││
│  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Project Structure

Sources/Retain/
├── App/                    # Entry point, AppState, ContentView
├── Components/             # Reusable UI (SyncOverlay, ProviderBadge)
├── Data/
│   ├── Models/             # Conversation, Message, Learning, Provider
│   ├── Parsers/            # ClaudeCodeParser, CodexParser
│   └── Storage/            # Database, Repositories
├── Features/
│   ├── ConversationBrowser/
│   ├── Learning/
│   ├── MenuBar/
│   ├── Settings/
│   └── Onboarding/
├── Integrations/           # macOS native integrations
│   ├── SpotlightIndexer.swift  # Core Spotlight indexing
│   └── URLSchemeHandler.swift  # retain:// deep linking
├── Intents/                # App Intents for Shortcuts/Siri
│   ├── ConversationEntity.swift
│   ├── ConversationQuery.swift
│   ├── RetainIntents.swift
│   └── ShortcutsProvider.swift
└── Services/
    ├── FileWatcher.swift   # FSEvents for file changes
    ├── SyncService.swift   # Background sync (actor)
    ├── Learning/           # CorrectionDetector, CLAUDEMDExporter
    ├── Search/             # SemanticSearch, OllamaService
    └── WebSync/            # ClaudeWebSync, ChatGPTWebSync

Read the full file on GitHub · 359 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.

2mo ago First seen · 359 lines · 3,435 tokens per session scan A 6d2a027217cb

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retain CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository BayramAnnakov/retain (168 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,435 tokens to every session, about $0.0137 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.

Memory and context

retain CLAUDE.md next to 6 instructions from other repositories
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retain CLAUDE.mdBayramAnnakov/retain	Instructions file	168	8mo ago	MIT	A	3,435	Claude Code
vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	9,719	GitHub Copilot
next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js	Instructions file	143k	today	MIT	A	7,461	Codex, OpenCode
langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain	Instructions file	149k	yesterday	MIT	A	4,680	Codex, OpenCode
vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	5,516	GitHub Copilot
vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode	Instructions file	195k	yesterday	MIT	A	3,093	GitHub Copilot
deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness	Instructions file	274k	2d ago	MIT	A	4,313	Codex, OpenCode

retain: Instructions file for Claude Code