Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to christaylorcodes/GitHub-Template. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/christaylorcodes/GitHub-Template/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christaylorcodes/GitHub-TemplateWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/christaylorcodes/github-template/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/christaylorcodes/github-template/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/christaylorcodes/github-template/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/christaylorcodes/github-template/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/christaylorcodes/github-template/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00202 | $0.00202 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00081 | $0.00081 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00040 | $0.00040 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00020 |
Grade A, and why
GitHub-Template 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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
CLAUDE.md
For project context, architecture, build commands, code conventions, and contribution workflow, read AGENTS.md. That is the single source of truth for all AI agents.
Session State
Use .claude/plan.md as a personal scratchpad for the current session. It is gitignored and not shared across agents or users.
- Note what you are working on and any in-progress reasoning
- This file is ephemeral — do not use it for project planning
- Project planning lives in GitHub Issues and Milestones
Finding Work
gh issue list --label ai-ready --state open
Read the issue, self-assign with gh issue edit <num> --add-label ai-in-progress --remove-label ai-ready, then follow the workflow in AGENTS.md.
After Template Initialization
If this repository was created from the GitHub Template, run /customize to walk through the remaining setup.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 202 tokens per session scan A e8c631c2f471
GitHub-Template CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository christaylorcodes/GitHub-Template (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 202 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
GitHub-Template CLAUDE.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub-Template CLAUDE.mdchristaylorcodes/GitHub-Template | Instructions file | 2 | 4mo ago | MIT | A | 202 | Claude Code |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |