RLM CLAUDE.md

RLM CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from brainqub3/RLM. It costs 1,141 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for a repository that provides a non-interactive Codex command and a Recursive Language Model setup for handling long tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running Codex without interaction, passing prompts or input through the command line, using the long-context RLM mode, and locating results from oolong evaluations.
Why use it?
It tells coding agents how to invoke the repository's headless Codex runner and where to find its long-context workflow and experiment artifacts.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/brainqub3/rlm/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brainqub3/RLM

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Opus 5 $0.00571 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00228 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00114 $0.00114

Measured 3d ago against content hash c42b5f7f3d3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

RLM 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 · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project instructions

Headless Codex sub-agent

This repo exposes a root-level headless Codex command for agents that need a non-interactive Codex pass:

./codex-headless "review the current repo and list the highest-risk files"

On Windows shells, use either:

.\codex-headless.ps1 "review the current repo and list the highest-risk files"
.\codex-headless.cmd "review the current repo and list the highest-risk files"

The wrapper runs codex exec from the repo root with gpt-5.5, model_reasoning_effort="xhigh", --sandbox workspace-write, approval_policy="never", and --ephemeral. It preserves normal codex exec behavior, so callers can pass a prompt argument, pipe stdin, add flags such as --json, or use -o <file> for the final message. It requires the Codex CLI on PATH and an existing codex login or CODEX_API_KEY scoped to the invocation.

RLM mode for long-context tasks

This repository includes a faithful "Recursive Language Model" (RLM) setup for Claude Code (after Recursive Language Models, arXiv:2512.24601, Algorithm 1):

  • Skill: rlm in .claude/skills/rlm/
  • Persistent Python REPL: .claude/skills/rlm/scripts/rlm_repl.py — holds the large context as a variable and exposes llm_query / llm_query_map / rlm_query and FINAL / FINAL_VAR.
  • Sub-LM (llm_query): a nested headless Claude Code (claude -p, tools off, default model haiku), called programmatically from REPL code — not a Task subagent. The recursive rlm_query runs claude -p with bash + this skill on.

When the user needs you to work over a context that is too large to paste into chat:

  1. Ask for (or locate) a context file path.
  2. Run the /rlm Skill and follow its procedure.

Keep the main conversation light: the root model never reads the full context — it writes REPL code that sub-queries the context in chunks, then synthesises. Use python (not python3) to invoke the REPL on this machine.

OOLONG eval — where run artifacts go

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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.

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RLM CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository brainqub3/RLM (393 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,141 tokens to every session, about $0.0057 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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