render-claude-context: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

render-claude-context CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from czottmann/render-claude-context. It costs 658 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction guide for a Node.js command-line tool that gathers CLAUDE.md files from the current folder upward and combines their instructions, including referenced files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or using the tool, especially its file discovery, import resolution, recursive processing, output generation, documentation, and specification.
Why use it?
It explains how the tool discovers, imports, and recursively processes project guidance. This helps developers understand where its final context comes from and how to work on it safely.

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 czottmann/render-claude-context's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on render-claude-context 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 render-claude-context configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 658 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 $0.00658 $0.00658
Opus 5.5 $0.00263 $0.00263
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00132 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00066 $0.00066

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 20a4b9186ca6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

render-claude-context 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 2mo 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 · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

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

Project Overview

This is a Node.js CLI tool that processes CLAUDE.md files with a hierarchical collection system. The tool walks up the directory tree from the current working directory to the user's home folder, collecting all CLAUDE.md files and processing them with file import resolution.

Key Files

  • Main Entry Point: index.js - CLI tool implementation with shebang for direct execution
  • Configuration: package.json - Package configuration with bin entry for global installation
  • Specification: SPEC.md - Complete project requirements and behavior specification
  • Documentation: docs/ - Comprehensive documentation for development and usage

Core Architecture

File Processing System (index.js:7-30)

  • File Discovery: collectClaudeFiles() walks up directory tree from current location to ~
  • Import Resolution: resolveImports() processes @ imports with tilde expansion support
  • Recursive Processing: Imported files can contain their own imports, creating dependency chains
  • Output Generation: Outputs processed content in reverse order with HTML comment separators

Import Syntax (index.js:32-67)

  • Format: @ followed immediately by a file path
  • Tilde expansion: ~/path resolves to home directory (index.js:42-46)
  • Path resolution: Relative to the file containing the import statement
  • Non-file paths after @ are left unchanged
  • Circular import protection via Set tracking (index.js:35)

Output Format (index.js:87-107)

  • Files processed in reverse collection order
  • Each file separated by HTML comments containing file paths: <!-- /path/to/file -->
  • No duplicate file names in output
  • ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md appears first in output

Development Commands

Run the tool: node index.js Install globally: npm install -g . then use claude-static-context-dump Test import resolution: Check output for resolved @ imports vs literal text

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 2mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 658 tokens per session scan A 20a4b9186ca6

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render-claude-context CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository czottmann/render-claude-context (14 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 658 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 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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