cafecito: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cafecito CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Cafecitohq/cafecito. It costs 902 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for Cafecito, a system that coordinates code changes before they reach a shared main branch. They define its terminology, landing checks, package rules, commit requirements, and branch-synchronisation expectations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Follow them when developing Cafecito: preserve its standard-library-only package, run the required gates, sign commits off, keep decision history append-only, and finish with branches synchronised.
Why use it?
They reduce errors in collaborative development by making change handling, testing, commits, and repository state explicit.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is Cafecitohq/cafecito's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cafecito 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 cafecito configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Cafecitohq/cafecito. 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/Cafecitohq/cafecito/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cafecitohq/cafecito

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CLAUDE.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cafecito — conventions for Claude Code sessions

Vocabulary (SPEC.md §1.1 — enforced in code, docs, and commit messages)

Changesets land; collisions commute, regenerate, or escalate. "Merge" is reserved for git's textual mechanism (merge-tree, 3-way) and the market category ("merge queue"). No cafecito code path resolves a merge conflict.

Hard rules

  • cafecito/ package is stdlib-only — zero runtime dependencies is a feature. pytest is the user's gate command, never our import.
  • The landing gate gates every landing, clean textual merges included. Never weaken this; two red mains during development are why (see bench/README.md).
  • phase0/ is the frozen evidence base — add new experiments, never refactor old ones.
  • Commits: DCO sign-off (-s) required; append-only decision history in docs.

Versions & pushing (the four-heads invariant)

  • A session that touched main ends with all four heads identical — git rev-parse main cafecito/main origin/main origin/cafecito/main prints one sha four times — and the suite green, or states out loud why not. Local commits mid-session are fine; ending half-synced is the failure mode.
  • After committing directly to main: python3 -m cafecito.cli advance --repo ., then push both refs in one command — git push origin main cafecito/main. CI's plane-sync job goes red when a pushed main leaves cafecito/main trailing.
  • Tags are releases, not bookmarks. Pushing v* publishes to PyPI via trusted publishing, and PyPI never reuses a version — so never create a local-only v* tag. Release ritual: suite green → bump pyproject.toml AND cafecito/__init__.py (test_version.py pins them together) → commit, advance, four-heads check → push branches → tag vX.Y.Z → push the tag in the same breath → watch publish.yml, verify on pypi.org. Versioning is 0.MINOR.PATCH: minor for features, patch for fixes.

Commands

  • Tests: phase0/workdir/venv-test/bin/python -m pytest -q cafecito/tests
  • Engine smoke (live regen, needs claude CLI): python3 -m cafecito.tests.smoke --pytest-python phase0/workdir/venv-test/bin/python
  • Demo dry run: DEMO_DELAY=0 PYTEST_PY=$PWD/phase0/workdir/venv-test/bin/python ./examples/demo.sh

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