prism: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

prism CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from cohemm/prism. It costs 1,139 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for developing Prism, including its commands and specification-first development workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps handle Prism analysis, legacy-code work, incident work, product requirements, setup, and other commands by routing each request to the matching instructions.
Why use it?
It tells a coding agent which project files to read and which procedures to follow for different Prism commands.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

View source ↗ cohemm/prism
Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01139 $0.01139
Opus 5.5 $0.00456 $0.00456
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00228 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00114 $0.00114

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8f5c528c53f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

prism 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.

CLAUDE.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prism - Development Environment

This CLAUDE.md is for local Prism development. In this repo, treat the checked-in commands/ and skills/ directories as the command source of truth. Do not require generated skill copies for slash-command discovery. Codex setup may refresh managed mirrors under ~/.codex/skills/prism-*, but those are install artifacts, not the authored workflow source.

Prism Commands

When the user types psm analyze or psm analyze ..., read skills/analyze/SKILL.md and follow its instructions exactly.

When the user types psm brownfield or psm brownfield ..., read skills/brownfield/SKILL.md and follow its instructions exactly.

When the user types psm incident or psm incident ..., read skills/incident/SKILL.md and follow its instructions exactly.

When the user types psm prd or psm prd ..., read skills/prd/SKILL.md and follow its instructions exactly.

When the user types psm setup, read skills/setup/SKILL.md and follow its instructions exactly.

When the user types any of these commands, read the corresponding repo skill file from skills/ and follow it exactly:

Input Action
psm analyze ... Read skills/analyze/SKILL.md and follow it
psm brownfield ... Read skills/brownfield/SKILL.md and follow it
psm incident ... Read skills/incident/SKILL.md and follow it
psm prd ... Read skills/prd/SKILL.md and follow it
psm setup ... Read skills/setup/SKILL.md and follow it

/prism Commands (Dev Mode)

When the user types any of these commands, read the corresponding repo skill file from skills/ and follow it exactly:

Input Action
/prism:analyze ... Read skills/analyze/SKILL.md and follow it
/prism:brownfield ... Read skills/brownfield/SKILL.md and follow it
/prism:incident ... Read skills/incident/SKILL.md and follow it
/prism:prd ... Read skills/prd/SKILL.md and follow it
/prism:setup ... Read skills/setup/SKILL.md and follow it

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 2mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 1,139 tokens per session scan A 8f5c528c53f3

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prism CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cohemm/prism (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,139 tokens to every session, about $0.0046 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.

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