senior-engineering-partner: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

senior-engineering-partner CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner. It costs 866 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for a senior engineering partner skill, including repository structure, pull-request rules, and a required authoring model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when reviewing or proposing changes, or when editing the skill's instructions, references, scripts, tests, or documentation.
Why use it?
They prevent agents from editing protected files with the wrong model and clarify which project documents and checks apply.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on senior-engineering-partner 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 senior-engineering-partner configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner. 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/bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00866 $0.00866
Opus 5 $0.00433 $0.00433
Sonnet 5 $0.00173 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00087 $0.00087

Measured 8d ago against content hash 66e49a5c8807, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

senior-engineering-partner 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 8d 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 · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — senior-engineering-partner

Agent/contributor guide for working on this repo (the skill itself lives in SKILL.md + references/). Human-facing process docs: CONTRIBUTING.md and MAINTAINERS.md — this file is the agent-facing distillation.

Model requirement (read before editing anything)

All authoring in this repo is done with the Fable model (claude-fable-5). Reading, auditing, and proposing changes are fine on any model; writing to SKILL.md, references/, scripts/, evals/, or the repo docs is not. On any other model, say so and stop before editing — offer to switch (/model claude-fable-5) or resume in a Fable session. Proceed otherwise only on an express, per-change instruction from the maintainer; a general "go ahead" earlier in the session is not one. Rationale: the skill's authored content stays consistent in voice, judgment, and rule-wording instead of drifting with whichever model happens to be loaded.

Repo shape

  • SKILL.md — the universal core; references/ — deep-dive references loaded on demand; scripts/ — lint/guard/test tooling; evals/ — the eval harness (scenarios, fixtures, baselines).
  • The repo is PUBLIC. Environment-specific values bind through references/my-environment.md, which is .gitignored and never committed — the repo ships only references/my-environment.template.md. Never commit private identifiers (employers, hosts, domains, real names beyond the author) into code, commits, PR text, or eval baselines — the CI denylist is only a partial guard, not a substitute for care.

PR rules

  • Branch → PR → all required checks green → squash-merge only (the ruleset enforces it). PRs require 1 approval and the author cannot self-approve — by default, open the PR and hand off for review.
  • Every PR gets a recorded review verdict in its body (a structured review of the diff — state what was checked and the conclusion).
  • Core edits follow the skill's own disciplines: version/changelog handled by release-please from Conventional Commits — never hand-edit generated CHANGELOG sections or hand-bump the version/CITATION fields (they are release-automation-managed; see the x-release-please annotations).

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 69 lines · 866 tokens per session scan A 66e49a5c8807

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senior-engineering-partner CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner (148 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 866 tokens to every session, about $0.0043 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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