gentelella: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

gentelella CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ColorlibHQ/gentelella. It costs 3,768 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Claude Code when working on the Gentelella v4 admin dashboard template. They cover the project structure, development commands, styling approach, and page architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or reviewing pages, JavaScript, SCSS, builds, linting, formatting, or screenshots in Gentelella.
Why use it?
They help Claude Code follow the repository’s existing conventions and use its documented checks and workflows.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

About the project

Gentelella is a free admin dashboard template built with vanilla JavaScript, SCSS, and Vite, providing ready-made pages and interface components for web-based administration panels. It is intended for SaaS dashboards, CRM systems, internal tools, e-commerce backends, and project management applications.

ColorlibHQ/gentelella · 21,506 stars · on GitHub · gentelella.colorlib.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ColorlibHQ/gentelella. 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/ColorlibHQ/gentelella/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/gentelella

Made for: Claude Code.

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Measured 8d ago against content hash 8d257fd7e10b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gentelella 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 · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working in this repository. Cross-tool counterparts: AGENTS.md, .cursor/rules/project.mdc, .github/copilot-instructions.md. Each tool reads only its own file; content overlaps intentionally.

What this is

Gentelella v4 (4.1.1) — free admin dashboard template by Colorlib. 58 production HTML pages under production/, built with Vite 8 (Rolldown). Vanilla ES2022, no Bootstrap, no jQuery, no SPA framework. SCSS-only styling. ECharts 6, DataTables.net 3, and Leaflet 1.9 are the only heavyweight runtime deps — all lazy-imported per page.

Live preview: https://preview.colorlib.com/theme/gentelella/.

Commands

npm run dev                # Vite dev server on :9173, opens /production/index.html
npm run build              # Production build → dist/
npm run preview            # Serve built dist/ on :9174

npm run lint               # ESLint over src/
npm run lint:fix           # Auto-fix
npm run format             # Prettier write
npm run format:check       # Prettier check

npm run new -- <slug>      # Scaffold a new page under production/
npm run screenshots        # Playwright captures 22 pages × light+dark → docs/screenshots/
npm run smoke              # Boot dev server, hit every page, assert 200
npm run analyze            # Build + open dist/stats.html
npm run deploy:preview     # Build + sync to R2 with per-file cache headers

Override the dev port via PORT=…; build under a subpath via BASE_PATH=/foo/ npm run build.

Architecture

Entry point: src/main-v4.js — single bundle for every page. Imports scss/v4/main.scss, mounts the shell, registers ECharts/DataTables/Leaflet placeholders, then lazy-imports page-specific modules guarded by DOM presence:

if (document.getElementById('inbox-root')) {
  import('./v4/inbox.js').then((m) => m.initInbox());
}

Shell injection (vite.config.js shellInjectionPlugin): pages opt in by setting <body data-shell="admin" data-page="key" data-breadcrumb="A > B">. At build/dev time the Vite plugin inlines sidebar/topbar/footer HTML directly into the document so the shell paints on the first frame — no FOUC. Runtime src/v4/shell.js mountShell() is the fallback for raw-file viewing and always wires up event handlers (mobile drawer, theme toggle, sidebar accordion).

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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. 8d ago First seen · 237 lines · 3,768 tokens per session scan A 8d257fd7e10b

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gentelella CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ColorlibHQ/gentelella (21,506 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,768 tokens to every session, about $0.0188 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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