What is spice-edit CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for SpiceEdit, a small terminal code editor written in Go for working through SSH and tmux. They describe its interface, file actions, menus and shortcut conventions.

They help modify or review SpiceEdit's editor actions, menus, file tree, tabs, mouse interactions and terminal-friendly controls while preserving its single-binary design.

Editors used inside terminals can conflict with tmux and terminal keyboard handling, and important actions may be missed if they are available only through right-click. These rules document the intended behavior.

How cloudmanic/spice-edit configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cloudmanic/spice-edit. 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/cloudmanic/spice-edit/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudmanic/spice-edit

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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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.

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Per session 2,009 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,009 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan C 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02009	$0.02009
Opus 5.5	$0.00804	$0.00804
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00402	$0.00402
Haiku 4.5	$0.00201	$0.00201

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 581246c8fb79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

spice-edit CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

make clean # rm -rf bin

CLAUDE.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — SpiceEdit

Project-specific guidance for Claude Code. Read this first; it captures conventions and design decisions that aren't obvious from the code alone.

What this project is

SpiceEdit is an opinionated, mouse-first terminal code editor aimed at SSH-into-tmux workflows. It looks and behaves like a tiny VS Code: file tree on the left, tabs across the top, syntax-highlighted editor in the middle, status bar at the bottom. It ships as a single static Go binary with no CGO.

Users open the action menu (Save, Quit, Show/Hide Sidebar, …) by clicking the ≡ icon, right-clicking, or double-tapping Esc. There are intentionally no Ctrl+ shortcuts for editor actions — they conflict with tmux and terminal emulators. Don't add them back.

Every file action also lives in the main ≡ menu. macOS Terminal + tmux often swallows Button3 (right-click), so the editor cannot rely on right-click as the only path to anything. Tree right-click is a redundant shortcut, not a primary surface — when adding new file-management features, make sure they're reachable from the main menu first.

Module / repo

Module: github.com/cloudmanic/spice-edit
Binary name: spiceedit (one word, lowercase — Makefile, goreleaser, brew formula all assume this)
Brew tap: this same repo, Formula/ directory (no separate tap repo)

Architecture map

main.go                       Entry — parses optional rootDir arg
internal/app/app.go           Event loop, layout, menu modal, splitter, all rendering
internal/editor/buffer.go     Position + Buffer ([]string lines), edit primitives
internal/editor/tab.go        Tab: path, buffer, cursor, anchor, scroll, dirty state
internal/editor/highlight.go  Chroma → []tcell.Style per line
internal/filetree/filetree.go Lazy tree, identity-preserving refresh, hit-test, render
internal/clipboard/clipboard.go OSC 52 to /dev/tty with tmux passthrough wrap
internal/spiceconfig/spiceconfig.go ~/.config/spiceedit/config.json loader (icons mode)
internal/icons/icons.go       Nerd Font detection + per-file glyph mapping
internal/theme/theme.go       Tokyo Night palette + syntax color mapping
internal/version/version.go   const Version = "x.y.z" — single line, CI bumps it

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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.

2mo ago First seen · 191 lines · 2,009 tokens per session scan C 581246c8fb79

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spice-edit CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cloudmanic/spice-edit (91 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,009 tokens to every session, about $0.0080 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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