grounded-forge CLAUDE.md

grounded-forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from chrisgagne/grounded-forge. It costs 3,658 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Grounded Forge, a system that organizes source material by task and builds focused reference collections for AI assistants. A corpus is a defined collection of source documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing source collections, build profiles, lenses, distillations, or rules about which material an AI assistant may use.
Why use it?
They explain how source collections, task categories, lenses, and visibility limits are compiled into the instructions agents receive.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisgagne/grounded-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.03658 $0.03658
Opus 5 $0.01829 $0.01829
Sonnet 5 $0.00732 $0.00732
Haiku 4.5 $0.00366 $0.00366

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2c9b1acdb652, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grounded-forge 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 6d 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 · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

grounded-forge, system instructions

You are working on the grounded-forge repo. The distributions this repo compiles ship their own CLAUDE.md, sourced from per-corpus build profiles under corpus.commons/{corpus}/build-profiles/ or corpus.local/{corpus}/build-profiles/.

What this repo is

A working example of the reference × task matrix architecture: a retrieval pattern that pre-projects sources to task domains at ingestion time so runtime is lookup, not reshape. Task-axis projection moves from generation time to ingestion time, produced by an LLM operating under a structured protocol that enforces source-only citation discipline.

Lenses are per-distillation modifiers applied where they materially reweight what's salient, not a third axis. Specs live at corpus.commons/{corpus}/lenses/ and are designed via the creating-lenses skill at .claude/skills/creating-lenses/SKILL.md; per-distillation applicability is decided at Pass G of creating-distillations. Each lens carries a visibility: frontmatter field (open, open-nc, copyrighted, confidential, or personal) parallel to references' Scope:; the build's max_visibility: ceiling per profile filters which lenses ship.

For the architectural argument, read in this order:

  1. docs/reference/vocabulary.md: the noun/verb grammar. Read first; the rest assumes it.
  2. docs/architecture/overview.md
  3. docs/architecture/llm-epistemology.md: why the matrix exists. The Larman's-Law-4 / LLM-epistemology problem the architecture is solving against.
  4. docs/architecture/projection-time.md
  5. docs/architecture/two-layer-indexes.md
  6. docs/architecture/matrix-pattern.md
  7. docs/architecture/source-integrity.md
  8. docs/architecture/known-architectural-limits.md: three limits intrinsic to the design.
  9. docs/architecture/capability-binding.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 6d ago First seen · 143 lines · 3,658 tokens per session scan A 2c9b1acdb652

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grounded-forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chrisgagne/grounded-forge (7 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,658 tokens to every session, about $0.0183 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 2026-08-31.