ClawUI: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ClawUI CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ccchow/ClawUI. It costs 3,682 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for ClawUI, an application that displays Claude Code conversations as timelines and lets users continue them. It documents the project’s commands, architecture, data model, and planning system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or maintaining ClawUI, including starting its backend and frontend, building it, running tests, or understanding how session data is organized.
Why use it?
It gives a coding assistant the project context needed to work consistently in this repository. It also records how to build, run, lint, and test the application.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade A, and why

ClawUI CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo ago.

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Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **User Agent calls REST API, not internal functions**: The User Agent runs a Claude CLI session that calls the same HTTP endpoints as the frontend via bash/curl. It does NOT import or call internal functions like `crea
CLAUDE.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository. It's also a useful reference for contributors — see CONTRIBUTING.md for the full contributor guide.

Project Overview

ClawUI reads Claude Code session JSONL files from ~/.claude/projects/, visualizes them as vertical timelines, and provides interactive continuation via claude --resume -p. Uses a four-layer data model (see docs/DATA-MODEL.md). Also includes a Plan/Blueprint system for structured task decomposition and execution (see docs/PLAN-SYSTEM.md).

Commands

npm run dev              # Start backend + frontend together (concurrently)
npm run dev:backend      # Express on port 3001 (tsx watch)
npm run dev:frontend     # Next.js on port 3000 (binds 127.0.0.1)
npm run build            # Build all
npm run build:backend    # TypeScript → dist/
npm run build:frontend   # Next.js production build
npm run start:backend    # Run compiled backend (node dist/index.js)
npm run lint             # ESLint (backend only)

Tests use Vitest in both backend and frontend:

cd backend && npx vitest run     # Backend tests
cd frontend && npx vitest run    # Frontend tests
cd backend && npx tsc --noEmit   # Type-check backend
cd frontend && npx tsc --noEmit  # Type-check frontend

Architecture

Monorepo with npm workspaces: backend/ (Express) + frontend/ (Next.js).

Four-Layer Data Model

Layer 1 — Raw:        ~/.claude/projects/**/*.jsonl (read-only source of truth)
Layer 2 — Index:      .clawui/index.db (SQLite, incremental sync by mtime+size)
                      + plans, plan_nodes tables (Plan system extension)
Layer 3 — Enrichment: .clawui/enrichments.json (stars, tags, notes, bookmarks)
Layer 4 — App State:  .clawui/app-state.json (UI preferences, recent sessions)

Backend (backend/)

Express server on port 3001. ESM ("type": "module"), uses tsx watch for dev. See docs/BACKEND-ARCHITECTURE.md for detailed file descriptions and security patterns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 2mo ago First seen · 132 lines · 3,682 tokens per session scan A 1a78f5d39ca9

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ClawUI CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ccchow/ClawUI (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,682 tokens to every session, about $0.0147 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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