Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to biznuts/never-stale. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/biznuts/never-stale/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/biznuts/never-staleWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/biznuts/never-stale/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/biznuts/never-stale/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/biznuts/never-stale/claude-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00367 | $0.00367 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00183 | $0.00183 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00073 | $0.00073 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00037 |
Grade A, and why
never-stale 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 6d 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.
What it actually says
Project rules
Language
- Spoken replies to the user: always English. Keep this unless the user explicitly asks to switch.
- Written files —
CLAUDE.md, docs, specs,READMEs, code comments, commit messages: English by default. - Override: if the user explicitly asks for a specific language for a given document, write that document in that language. An explicit request always wins over the default above.
Doc maintenance
- After ANY code change, immediately sync the related docs (e.g.
README.md,CLAUDE.md, design/spec docs). Don't wait to be asked. - Before changing a feature, read the related docs first to confirm the current state.
- At the end of a round of changes, state clearly which docs were updated and which were not.
Auto-compact note
- If this conversation just went through auto-compact: re-confirm the two rules above (spoken language + keep docs in sync) still apply.
- When unsure of the state, re-read this
CLAUDE.mdand the related docs; don't rely on chat memory.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 26 lines · 367 tokens per session scan A 303b5806c4b8
never-stale CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository biznuts/never-stale (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 367 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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 2026-08-31.
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