claude-code-brain-bootstrap: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-code-brain-bootstrap CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap. It costs 3,334 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant. It defines required documents to read, operating rules, and extra guidance for tasks such as building, testing, security work, and plugin use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the main instruction file for a Claude Code project, directing the assistant to the relevant architecture, build, terminal, security, and task documents.
Why use it?
It gives the assistant project-specific context and prevents it from acting without consulting the team's rules and current task notes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-code-brain-bootstrap 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 claude-code-brain-bootstrap configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap. 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/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap

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 $0.03334 $0.03334
Opus 5 $0.01667 $0.01667
Sonnet 5 $0.00667 $0.00667
Haiku 4.5 $0.00333 $0.00333

Measured 3d ago against content hash c6e02618eb70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-brain-bootstrap 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 3d 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 · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code — {{PROJECT_NAME}} Instructions

Non-negotiable. Auto-injected every message. Budget: <4KB. Detail in claude/*.md — read via read_file.

@claude/architecture.md @claude/rules.md

⚠️ Mandatory Reads — You MUST consult before acting

Session start → read claude/tasks/todo.md (current task state) + claude/tasks/lessons.md (accumulated wisdom from past sessions).

If task involves… YOU MUST read FIRST
anything (first action) claude/tasks/todo.md + claude/tasks/lessons.md + claude/tasks/CLAUDE_ERRORS.md + claude/architecture.md + claude/rules.md
build, test, CI, lint, format, migration, local dev claude/build.md
MR, PR, ticket, context management claude/templates.md
terminal, command, shell, subprocess, pager, interactive claude/terminal-safety.md
CVE, dependency upgrade, security scan claude/cve-policy.md
plugin, claude-mem, hook coexistence, API quota, rtk, graphify claude/plugins.md
structural query, call trace, codebase-memory, semantic search, cocoindex, code-review-graph, change risk, playwright, serena claude/plugins.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 3d ago First seen · 200 lines · 3,334 tokens per session scan A c6e02618eb70

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claude-code-brain-bootstrap CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,334 tokens to every session, about $0.0167 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 2026-09-03.

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