copperhead: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

copperhead CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from copperheadhq/copperhead. It costs 1,286 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for Copperhead, a TypeScript command-line agent that designs and edits KiCad circuit-board projects. KiCad is electronic-design software; the instructions cover its specifications, architecture, commands, testing, and verification workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when implementing or verifying Copperhead commands, agent behavior, KiCad file changes, or ERC/DRC checks, which detect electrical and layout-rule problems.
Why use it?
They give agents the project's authoritative rules and safety checks for editing circuit schematics and printed-circuit-board files.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to copperheadhq/copperhead. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/copperheadhq/copperhead

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Grade A, and why

copperhead 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 14d 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 · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

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

What this repo is

copperhead — "Cursor for circuit boards": a TypeScript CLI agent that designs and edits real KiCad projects (.kicad_sch/.kicad_pcb s-expression files), keeps markdown design docs as memory, and verifies its own work with kicad-cli ERC/DRC. Apache-2.0, Node ≥ 20.

Current state: Phase 1 implemented, pending full live verification. The CLI builds and runs (init, check/verify, do, sync, create), and the offline test suite is green. Live AC-3.x integration tests run only for explicitly configured providers: API keys enable the direct OpenAI/Anthropic paths, and COPPERHEAD_TEST_CODEX=1 enables the local saved-login Codex path. See the status note at the top of openspec/changes/build-copperhead-phase-1/tasks.md for the exact split.

Sources of truth

  • openspec/specs/SPEC.md — the complete technical specification: product definition, architecture, CLI surface, agent loop, tool schemas, config, safety rails, and binary acceptance criteria (AC-1 … AC-7). Read this before any design or implementation work.
  • openspec/changes/build-copperhead-phase-1/ — the active change: proposal.md (what/why), design.md (decisions D1–D14 with rationale), specs/*/spec.md (seven capability delta specs with WHEN/THEN scenarios), tasks.md (implementation checklist in dependency order).

When spec-level behavior changes, update SPEC.md and the change artifacts together — the delta specs' scenarios are meant to map 1:1 onto SPEC.md's acceptance criteria.

Workflow (OpenSpec)

This repo uses OpenSpec spec-driven development. Planning artifacts are managed with the openspec CLI and the /opsx:* skills:

  • /opsx:apply — implement tasks from the change (check off tasks.md as you go)
  • /opsx:update — revise planning artifacts coherently (never edits code)
  • /opsx:archive — archive the change when implemented; merges delta specs into openspec/specs/

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 14d ago Changed · +44 tokens per session 868d0dd10ab5
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 1,242 tokens per session scan A a533dcd6c3fa

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copperhead CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository copperheadhq/copperhead (666 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,286 tokens to every session, about $0.0051 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 2026-08-30.

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