claude-code: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-code CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from constellos/claude-code. It costs 401 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide to Claude Code plugins, which extend Claude Code with reusable hooks, shared utilities, and integrations such as GitHub workflows or project-context checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or install Claude Code plugins, create session hooks, configure hooks.json, use plugin project paths, and troubleshoot hooks that do not run.
Why use it?
It shows the expected plugin structure and hook conventions, reducing setup mistakes such as incorrect imports, paths, or configuration variables.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is constellos/claude-code's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-code 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 claude-code configures →

Runs only inside a plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it.

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00401 $0.00401
Opus 5.5 $0.00160 $0.00160
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00080 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00040 $0.00040

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5eae20e5d2db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

claude-code 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 1mo 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.

- **Cache stale**: `rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/cache/constellos && claude plugin install --scope project`
CLAUDE.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Claude Code Plugins

Plugin marketplace with shared TypeScript utilities for typed hooks.

Plugins

Plugin Purpose
github-driven-dev GitHub workflow orchestration, branch context, CI
project-context CLAUDE.md discovery, validation
nextjs-supabase-ai-sdk-dev Vercel/Supabase, UI dev system

Hook Pattern

import type { SessionStartInput, SessionStartHookOutput } from '../shared/types/types.js';
import { runHook } from '../shared/hooks/utils/io.js';

async function handler(input: SessionStartInput): Promise<SessionStartHookOutput> {
  return {
    hookSpecificOutput: {
      hookEventName: 'SessionStart',
      additionalContext: 'Hook executed',
    },
  };
}

export { handler };
runHook(handler);

Important: Imports use ../shared/ (plugin-local), NOT ../../../shared/ (repo root).

hooks.json

{
  "hooks": {
    "SessionStart": [{ "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "npx tsx ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/my-hook.ts" }] }]
  }
}

Variables: ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}, ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}

Installation

claude plugin install plugin-name@constellos

Troubleshooting

  • Hooks not firing: Check ~/.claude/plugins/cache/, reinstall plugin, restart session
  • Cache stale: rm -rf ~/.claude/plugins/cache/constellos && claude plugin install --scope project

Debug

DEBUG=hook-name claude

Logs: .claude/logs/hook-events.json

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. 1mo ago Changed · -2 tokens per session 5eae20e5d2db
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 403 tokens per session scan C 8935b21708fb

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claude-code CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository constellos/claude-code (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 401 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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 2026-08-31.

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