trellis: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

trellis CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from craigcossairt/trellis. It costs 134 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Trellis, a starter structure for AI-assisted software development. They describe shared guidance for coding tools, including test-driven development, which means writing tests to guide implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide work in Trellis projects, including the use of its shared AGENTS.md instructions, development commands, secret safeguards, and local knowledge base.
Why use it?
They give coding agents consistent project rules, including how to handle tests, bug fixes, worktrees, hooks, and optional local knowledge.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: UserPromptSubmit hook event. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 134 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 134 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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.
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 $0.00134 $0.00134
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00067
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00013

Measured 8d ago against content hash 42829c179571, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trellis 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 8d 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 · 12 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

@AGENTS.md

Claude Code specifics (everything above is harness-agnostic):

  • Hooks, slash commands, skills, and agents live in .claude/ - see SETUP.md for what's wired.
  • The /tdd, /bug-report, and /worktree commands are thin wrappers around docs/methodology/ - auto-follow them without being asked to invoke them by name.
  • The optional local knowledge base in brain/ injects context via a UserPromptSubmit hook once initialized (see brain/README.md). Kill switch: PROJECT_BRAIN_DISABLE=1.
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. 8d ago First seen · 12 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 42829c179571

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trellis CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository craigcossairt/trellis (4 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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