how2claude: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

how2claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from cresslank/how2claude. It costs 437 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project instruction file for how2claude, a tutorial and template that teaches non-programmers to use AI coding tools. It tells the agent how to explain work and keep changes simple.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide an agent while learning, explaining project changes, asking questions before large tasks, and avoiding unrequested complexity.
Why use it?
It gives an AI coding tool clear expectations when the person using it is still learning programming.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is cresslank/how2claude's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on how2claude 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 how2claude configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to cresslank/how2claude. 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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Opus 5 $0.00218 $0.00218
Sonnet 5 $0.00087 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00044 $0.00044

Measured 7d ago against content hash a41e20cf89a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

how2claude 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 · 53 lines

What it actually says

About This Project

This is how2claude, a tutorial and template repository for non-programmers learning to use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Droid, etc.).

The guide content lives in guide_docs/. When you fork this repo for your own project, edit this file to describe what you are building and how you want the AI to behave.

About Me

I am not a professional programmer. I am learning to use AI coding tools to build things.

What I Want Claude to Do

  • Explain what you are doing and why, especially for non-obvious steps
  • Keep things simple - favor clarity over cleverness
  • When I ask for something, tell me if it is more complex than it sounds. I may not realize a "simple" request actually involves many steps or tricky edge cases.
  • Ask clarifying questions before starting large tasks

What I Don't Want Claude to Do

  • Don't comment out code. If something should be removed, delete it.
  • Don't create extra markdown files, READMEs, or documentation unless I ask.
  • Don't over-engineer. No unnecessary abstractions, config files, or patterns that add complexity without clear benefit.
  • Don't add features I didn't ask for.

Project Structure

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├── README.md           # Main entry point, links to guide_docs/
├── CLAUDE.md           # This file
├── AGENTS.md           # Points other AI tools to CLAUDE.md
├── guide_docs/         # The tutorial content
├── scripts/            # Placeholder for scripts
├── docs/               # Placeholder for documentation
└── projects/           # Placeholder for project code

Notes

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 · 53 lines · 437 tokens per session scan A a41e20cf89a2

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how2claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cresslank/how2claude (3 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 437 tokens to every session, about $0.0022 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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