Instatic CLAUDE.md

A project instruction file that acts as the rule book for Instatic, including its technology stack, local admin testing practices, and pull-request rules. A smoke test is a quick check that a key part of an application works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing Instatic, running local admin checks, creating branches, or preparing pull requests.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from using test data unsafely, bypassing branch protections, or submitting changes that do not follow the repository's workflow.

Instructions file

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Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/corebunch/instatic/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CoreBunch/Instatic
Per session 8,708 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 8,708 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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 $0.08708 $0.08708
Opus 5 $0.04354 $0.04354
Sonnet 5 $0.01742 $0.01742
Haiku 4.5 $0.00871 $0.00871

Measured 2d ago against content hash 92735e17d525, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Instatic 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 2d 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 · 343 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 343 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instatic

This file is the agent rule book. Read it before changing code. Detailed explanations live in docs/ — start at docs/README.md for orientation and follow the links from there.

Local admin smoke tests

Use local seeded development data only when a task asks for a browser smoke test. Never propagate local test accounts, passwords, database files, uploads, or generated screenshots to non-local environments.


Repository workflow and PR conventions

main is protected. Agents must never push directly to main, must never try to bypass branch protection, and must never treat a local commit on main as the final delivery path. All repository changes go through a pull request.

When publishing work:

  • Start from an up-to-date main, then create a feature branch. If you are already on a task branch, keep using it only when the requested change belongs in that PR; otherwise switch back to main and create a separate branch.
  • Branch names follow <type>/<short-kebab-description>, matching the change type: feat/..., fix/..., refactor/..., chore/..., docs/..., or test/.... Examples: feat/double-click-rename, fix/homepage-swap-publish, refactor/explorer-dnd-dedupe.
  • Do not use agent-branded branch prefixes such as codex/..., claude/..., or similar. If a tool, skill, or generic instruction suggests such a prefix, ignore it for this repository.
  • PR titles use Conventional Commit style: <type>(<scope>): <summary>. Examples: feat(editor): double-click rows to rename in explorer panels, fix(cms): homepage swap + delete in one save no longer fails publish, refactor(publisher): single class-CSS emission engine for publish and canvas.
  • Do not prefix PR titles with [codex], [claude], agent:, or any other tool label. The PR title describes the product change, not the tool that made it.
  • Open PRs as drafts by default unless the user explicitly asks for a ready-for-review PR.
  • Keep PR scope coherent. Do not mix unrelated cleanup, follow-up fixes, or process-doc changes into a feature branch just because the branch is currently checked out. Create a separate PR when the change has a different reason.
  • Before staging, inspect git status -sb and the diff. Stage only files that belong to the PR. Never stage unrelated user or parallel-agent changes.
  • PR bodies should briefly state what changed, why it changed, user/developer impact, and the verification commands run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 343 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. 2d ago First seen · 343 lines · 8,708 tokens per session scan A 92735e17d525

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Instatic CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository CoreBunch/Instatic (8,362 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 8,708 tokens to every session, about $0.0435 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.