Dorothy: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Dorothy CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Charlie85270/Dorothy. It costs 259 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for Dorothy’s memory system, which exposes Claude Code’s saved project notes. It explains where memory is stored and how agents should maintain architectural decisions and debugging notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review relevant notes at the start of work, record decisions and file locations, add debugging details, and update memory after corrections or discoveries.
Why use it?
Keeping important discoveries in project memory prevents later sessions from repeating the same investigation.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is Charlie85270/Dorothy's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Dorothy 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 Dorothy configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Charlie85270/Dorothy. 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/Charlie85270/Dorothy/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Charlie85270/Dorothy

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 259 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 259 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00259 $0.00259
Opus 5 $0.00130 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00052 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00026

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6920f66dea5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Dorothy 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 10d 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 · 20 lines

What it actually says

Memory System

Dorothy exposes Claude Code's native memory (~/.claude/projects/*/memory/) via the Memory page. No custom storage — reads real Claude Code memory files. Project dir names use path-as-folder-name encoding (slashes → dashes).

Memory

Use auto memory (~/.claude/projects/.../memory/) actively on this project:

  • Save architectural decisions, key file locations, and debugging insights to MEMORY.md
  • Create topic files (e.g. patterns.md, debugging.md) for detailed notes — keep MEMORY.md under 200 lines
  • At session start, review MEMORY.md for relevant context before diving in
  • After any correction or new discovery, update memory so the next session benefits

Autonomy

When you are delegated a task by Dorothy or an orchestrator agent, always act autonomously:

  • Do NOT ask for confirmation before proceeding — just do the work and report results
  • Do NOT ask "Would you like me to continue?" or "Shall I proceed?" — the answer is always yes
  • If a task is ambiguous, make reasonable assumptions and state them in your report
  • Complete the full task and return your findings/output directly
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. 10d ago First seen · 20 lines · 259 tokens per session scan A 6920f66dea5a

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Dorothy CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Charlie85270/Dorothy (345 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 259 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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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