ai-context-hierarchy: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ai-context-hierarchy CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from CreatmanCEO/ai-context-hierarchy. It costs 859 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for ai-context-hierarchy, a system for giving coding agents different levels of instructions about projects and sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Maintaining context templates, parsing coding-agent session exports into Markdown, and following platform-specific setup instructions.
Why use it?
It records the repository architecture and rules so agents can find the right context, edit safely, and use the supplied conversion and synchronization tools.

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 CreatmanCEO/ai-context-hierarchy's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai-context-hierarchy 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 ai-context-hierarchy configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to CreatmanCEO/ai-context-hierarchy. 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/CreatmanCEO/ai-context-hierarchy/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CreatmanCEO/ai-context-hierarchy

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.00859 $0.00859
Opus 5 $0.00430 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00172 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00086 $0.00086

Measured 7d ago against content hash 37c9ff22d38b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-context-hierarchy 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 7d 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 · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ai-context-hierarchy — CLAUDE.md (Level 1)

This file is itself the pattern this repository documents. Treat it as a working example of a Level 1 project context file.

Status: ACTIVE

Public template repository — three-level context hierarchy for AI coding agents. Featured in the Graphify v5.0 roadmap.

Architecture

  • README.md — main entry, problem/solution/test results, multi-platform support table
  • templates/level-0.md.template — global project map skeleton (goes in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md or equivalent)
  • templates/level-1.md.template — per-project context skeleton (goes in each project root)
  • templates/desktop-prompt.md — Claude Desktop system prompt for hierarchy-aware behaviour
  • scripts/parse-sessions.py — Claude Code JSONL → markdown with YAML frontmatter (date, project, topics, files_touched). Handles Claude Code's msg.message.content nesting and mixed string/list-of-blocks content
  • scripts/parse-desktop-export.py — Claude Desktop export → markdown
  • scripts/vps-sync.md — slash-command template for syncing remote production code to a local mirror
  • platforms/*.md — per-platform setup guides (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Claude Desktop)
  • examples/multi-project-setup.md — anonymised real-world Level 0 example (15 projects across 4 VPS)
  • article/draft.md — companion article draft (published versions linked from README)

CRITICAL RULES — when editing this repo

  • NEVER introduce links from README.md to files that do not exist in the tree. The CI validate workflow fails on broken internal links.
  • ALWAYS update both README.md and README.ru.md when changing customer-facing surface area. They are mirrors.
  • ALWAYS update CHANGELOG.md for any change that affects users (templates, scripts, platform support).
  • Test results (T1–T4) are anchored to specific scenarios — do not renumber without updating both README locales.

Commands

  • python scripts/parse-sessions.py — parse ~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl into ~/conversations/claude-code/*.md
  • python scripts/parse-desktop-export.py <export.json> — parse Claude Desktop export JSON
  • (no build step — this is a template repository)

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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. 7d ago First seen · 42 lines · 859 tokens per session scan A 37c9ff22d38b

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ai-context-hierarchy CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository CreatmanCEO/ai-context-hierarchy (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 859 tokens to every session, about $0.0043 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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