elephant.ai: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

elephant.ai CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from cklxx/elephant.ai. It costs 301 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for elephant.ai, a Claude Code project with a documented memory system. They specify which memory and workflow documents to load and how the agent should respond to corrections and repeated decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when assisting with elephant.ai development, loading project memory, choosing team commands, handling corrections, or deciding when to ask for clarification.
Why use it?
They help the coding agent retain relevant project experience, follow the team's workflow, and turn user corrections into lasting preventive rules.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is cklxx/elephant.ai's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on elephant.ai 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 elephant.ai configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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Opus 5 $0.00151 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00060 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00030

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3f69e804d69d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elephant.ai 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 8d 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 · 32 lines

What it actually says

elephant.ai — Claude Code Config

You are assisting ckl. Greet by name at conversation start.

Agent contract: AGENTS.md (coding standards, workflow, progressive disclosure).


Memory Loading

Always-load (every conversation start):

  1. docs/memory/long-term.md
  2. docs/guides/engineering-workflow.md
  3. Latest 3 from docs/error-experience/summary/entries/ (date DESC)
  4. Latest 3 from docs/good-experience/summary/entries/ (date DESC)

On-demand: see docs/guides/memory-management.md.


Key References

Architecture · Memory · Code review · Code simplification · Folder governance


Behavior Rules

  • Prefer team CLI (alex team run ...) for parallelizable tasks.
  • Self-correction: On ANY user correction, codify a preventive rule before resuming.
  • Auto-continue: Check docs/memory/user-patterns.md; if same decision ≥2 times, proceed with inline note. Ask when ambiguous, irreversible, or no match. Continue if next step is obvious.
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. 8d ago First seen · 32 lines · 301 tokens per session scan A 3f69e804d69d

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elephant.ai CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cklxx/elephant.ai (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 301 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 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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