bilge-development-kit CLAUDE.md

Project instructions for the Bilge Development Kit that tell an agent how to use saved session notes, agent files, and modular skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working in that project to read memory files, select the relevant agent and skill instructions, and follow their priority and implementation rules.
Why use it?
They preserve project context between sessions and require the agent to load the right guidance before making changes.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit
Per session 2,698 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,698 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.02698 $0.02698
Opus 5 $0.01349 $0.01349
Sonnet 5 $0.00540 $0.00540
Haiku 4.5 $0.00270 $0.00270

Measured 2d ago against content hash eaae512c735f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bilge-development-kit 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 2d 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 · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bilge Development Kit - Claude Code Rules

This file defines how Claude Code behaves in this workspace. Adapted from GEMINI.md for Claude Code's native tooling.


MEMORY BANK (Session Start)

At the start of every session, check if .agent/.claude/memory/ directory exists and read any available memory files:

  • MEMORY-activeContext.md — current work state, recent sessions
  • MEMORY-patterns.md — established code patterns and conventions
  • MEMORY-decisions.md — architecture decision records
  • MEMORY-troubleshooting.md — solved issues and lessons learned

Use this context to avoid re-discovering information. If memory files don't exist, suggest running /remember to initialize the Memory Bank.


CRITICAL: AGENT & SKILL PROTOCOL (START HERE)

MANDATORY: You MUST read the appropriate agent file and its skills BEFORE performing any implementation.

1. Modular Skill Loading Protocol

Agent activated -> Check frontmatter "skills:" -> Read SKILL.md (INDEX) -> Read specific sections
  • Selective Reading: DO NOT read ALL files in a skill folder. Read SKILL.md first, then only read sections matching the user's request.
  • Rule Priority: P0 (CLAUDE.md root) > P1 (Agent .md) > P2 (SKILL.md). All rules are binding.

2. Enforcement Protocol

  1. When agent is activated:
    • Read Rules -> Check Frontmatter -> Load SKILL.md -> Apply All.
  2. Forbidden: Never skip reading agent rules or skill instructions. "Read -> Understand -> Apply" is mandatory.

REQUEST CLASSIFIER (STEP 1)

Before ANY action, classify the request:

Request Type Trigger Keywords Active Tiers Result
QUESTION "what is", "how does", "explain" TIER 0 only Text Response
SURVEY/INTEL "analyze", "list files", "overview" TIER 0 + Explore subagent Session Intel (No File)
SIMPLE CODE "fix", "add", "change" (single file) TIER 0 + TIER 1 (lite) Inline Edit
COMPLEX CODE "build", "create", "implement", "refactor" TIER 0 + TIER 1 (full) + Agent tool {task-slug}.md Required
DESIGN/UI "design", "UI", "page", "dashboard" TIER 0 + TIER 1 + Agent tool {task-slug}.md Required

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 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. 2d ago First seen · 271 lines · 2,698 tokens per session scan A eaae512c735f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bilge-development-kit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bugrabilge/bilge-development-kit (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,698 tokens to every session, about $0.0135 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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