chainloop: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

chainloop CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from chainloop-dev/chainloop. It costs 3,767 tokens per session, scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for Chainloop, an evidence store for software-supply-chain records such as software bills of materials, vulnerability reports, and attestations. They explain its server, storage, and command-line components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on Chainloop’s control plane, artifact storage, CLI, APIs, business logic, or access control.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the architecture and local rules needed to make changes in the correct service or shared layer.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is chainloop-dev/chainloop's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on chainloop 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 chainloop configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to chainloop-dev/chainloop. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chainloop-dev/chainloop

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade B, and why

chainloop CLAUDE.md scanned grade B 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 5d 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.

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CLAUDE.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 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.

Overview

Chainloop is an open-source evidence store for Software Supply Chain attestations, SBOMs, VEX, SARIF, and other compliance artifacts. The project consists of three main components: a Control Plane (server), Artifact Content Addressable Storage (CAS), and a CLI client.

Design Specs

Design specs live in docs/specs/. Each one records an intended design and its reasons. Read the relevant spec before you change that behavior. Cite requirement IDs (for example R-001) in PRs that implement them. When a change goes against an implemented spec, say so in the PR, and propose a new spec for a large change. Do not edit an implemented spec's design. Never put customer or user information in a spec. Parent tickets for specs live in the GitHub issues of this repository. Create and update specs with br:eng-spec, never by hand-rolling a new format.

Architecture

The codebase follows a microservices architecture with three main components and shared libraries:

Control Plane (app/controlplane/)

Main backend service implementing hexagonal architecture:

  • API Layer (./api/): Protobuf definitions and generated gRPC/HTTP services
  • Server Layer (./internal/server): HTTP/gRPC servers, middlewares, and request handling
  • Service Layer (./internal/service): Protocol buffer service implementations
  • Business Layer (./pkg/biz): Core business logic and repository abstractions
    • Organizations, workflows, attestations, API tokens, groups, projects
    • CAS backend management, integrations, user access control
    • Policy evaluation and referrer management
  • Data Layer (./pkg/data): Repository implementations using Ent ORM
    • PostgreSQL with Atlas migrations in ./pkg/data/ent/migrate/migrations/
    • Ent schemas in ./pkg/data/ent/schema/

Dependencies: OIDC provider, PostgreSQL, Secret storage (Vault/AWS/GCP/Azure), Artifact CAS Authentication: JWT tokens, OIDC delegation, RBAC with Casbin Key Features: Multi-tenancy, workflow contracts, policy as code, audit logging

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 lines

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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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chainloop CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chainloop-dev/chainloop (606 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,767 tokens to every session, about $0.0151 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-01.

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