claudenotes: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claudenotes CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from conorluddy/claudenotes. It costs 300 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, in a repository of development notes and examples. It describes the repository layout, development practices, and Git workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when maintaining the notes repository, adding documentation, following its folder structure, or applying its Git rules.
Why use it?
It gives the coding assistant consistent project context, so it knows where documentation belongs and how changes should be managed.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security

Grade A, and why

claudenotes 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 · 43 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

This repository serves as a knowledge base for Claude Code development, containing:

  • Notes: General findings, tips, and observations
  • Prompts: Useful prompts and prompt patterns
  • Hooks: Custom shell commands and automation scripts
  • Commands: Common CLI commands and workflows
  • Issues: Known issues, workarounds, and solutions

Repository Structure

claudenotes/
├── Notes/          # General findings and tips
├── Prompts/        # Useful prompts and patterns
├── Hooks/          # Shell commands and automation
├── Commands/       # CLI commands and workflows
└── Issues/         # Known issues and solutions

Development Notes

This is a documentation repository with markdown files. Each directory contains:

  • README.md explaining the directory's purpose and organization
  • Individual files documenting specific findings, prompts, or solutions

No build system or testing framework is required - this is a static documentation repository.

Git Workflow

As per user preferences:

  • Never push directly to main branch
  • Use git-flow methodology with feature branches and PRs
  • Main branch represents production releases

Maintenance Guidelines

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 · 43 lines · 300 tokens per session scan A c9713a39397e

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claudenotes CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository conorluddy/claudenotes (5 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 300 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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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