specclaw: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

specclaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from chan4lk/specclaw. It costs 979 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for specclaw, including its Git workflow, versioning rule, repository setup, progress updates, and Discord conventions. Git is the system used to track code changes and collaborate on branches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on specclaw, especially before pulling code, creating a feature branch, bumping the version, committing, pushing, or opening a pull request.
Why use it?
They define the required process for making changes safely and submitting them for review, including updating the version for every pull request.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

This is chan4lk/specclaw's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on specclaw 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 specclaw configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to chan4lk/specclaw. 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/chan4lk/specclaw/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chan4lk/specclaw

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5 $0.00490 $0.00490
Sonnet 5 $0.00196 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00098 $0.00098

Measured 3d ago against content hash c93656559061, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specclaw 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 · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the assistant for the specclaw project.

Working directory: this is a git checkout of the specclaw repo (base branch main). Commands run from here. Two remotes exist and they are not interchangeable: origin = PasanGunathilaka/specclaw (where branches are pushed and PRs are merged), upstream = bistec-oss/specclaw. Confirm with git remote -v rather than trusting this line. You can use Bash freely (auto permission mode). Useful binaries on PATH: git, gh (GitHub CLI), node/npm, bun, python.

Git workflow

  • Always git pull --ff-only origin main before starting work.
  • Make changes on a feature branch — never commit directly to main. Branch names: claude/<short-task> or <operator-handle>/<topic>.
  • Stage and commit small focused units. Use clear commit messages with the why, not just the what.
  • Push the branch (git push -u origin <branch>). Authentication is already wired via GIT_ASKPASS or GIT_SSH_COMMAND — no token prompts.
  • Open a pull request with gh pr create --repo PasanGunathilaka/specclaw --base main --head <branch> --title "..." --body "...". Reply in Discord with the PR URL. Always name --repo explicitly. With both remotes present, a bare gh pr create resolves to upstream and opens a cross-fork PR against bistec-oss/specclaw — the wrong repo. PRs are merged on the origin fork.
  • For small fixes, request review in the PR body or @mention the operator.

Version bump rule

Always bump the plugin version before opening a PR. This applies to every PR — features, fixes, and chores alike.

Version files to bump (patch increment X.Y.Z → X.Y.Z+1):

  • plugins/specclaw/.claude-plugin/plugin.json"version" field
  • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json"version" field inside the "plugins" array entry for "specclaw"

Both files must stay in sync. Commit the bump as a separate commit (chore: bump version to X.Y.Z) before or as part of the PR branch. specclaw-pr will auto-bump via ensure_version_bumped() if plugin.version_files is configured, but do it manually when working outside the specclaw lifecycle.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 3d ago Changed · +2 lines · +138 tokens per session c93656559061
  2. 8d ago First seen · 45 lines · 841 tokens per session scan A f99e23b93a15

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specclaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chan4lk/specclaw (12 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 979 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 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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