loom: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

loom CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from cosmix/loom. It costs 354 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction document for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, describing how to understand, build, test, and navigate the Loom Rust project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide work on Loom, including reading project knowledge, finding source files, and running the documented build and test commands.
Why use it?
It gives the coding assistant the project’s conventions and source layout, reducing wrong assumptions before it changes code.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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

View source ↗ cosmix/loom
Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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 $0.00354 $0.00354
Opus 5.5 $0.00142 $0.00142
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00071 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00035 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 35011d898926, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

loom 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 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.

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 · 39 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

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

⚠️ KNOWLEDGE-FIRST: doc/loom/knowledge/INDEX.md is the map of this project's curated knowledge. Read it before exploring the tree, then only the sections it points to; pull a specific question with loom knowledge context --query (the sections come back quoted). Inside a loom stage the signal's Knowledge Brief comes first.

Project Overview

Loom is a self-propelling agent orchestration CLI written in Rust. It coordinates Claude Code sessions across git worktrees, enabling parallel task execution with automatic crash recovery and context handoffs.

This is an unreleased project under active development NO BACKWARDS COMPATIBILTY OR MIGRATION ROUTINES SHOULD BE ADDED AT THIS STAGE.

Build Commands

cd loom
cargo build                    # Development build
cargo build --release          # Release build
cargo test                     # Run all tests
cargo test stage_transitions   # Run single test file
cargo test --test e2e          # Run end-to-end tests
cargo clippy -- -D warnings    # Lint with warnings as errors
cargo fmt --check              # Check formatting

Tests use serial_test for isolation - many tests cannot run in parallel.

Plans

Look in doc/plans for the plan files!

Remember your Mandatory Rules

Claude.md rules are mandatory and supersede any Plan Mode or other Claude instructions!

Ignore the test-project, unless the user explicitly asks you to read or work with it to test a loom feature.

Remember: NEVER write plans to ~/.claude/plans. It is strictly forbidden.

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 · -105 lines · -900 tokens per session 35011d898926
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +4 tokens per session 0a353126521d
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -3 lines · -73 tokens per session 3cf7148c2752
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 147 lines · 1,323 tokens per session scan A 1a2984cd9070

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loom CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cosmix/loom (64 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 354 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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