arcforge: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

arcforge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from d4rkNinja/arcforge. It costs 691 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Arcforge, a portable collection of skills for AI coding agents. They say to treat AGENTS.md as the main source of project guidance and describe how to route work to the right skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working in the Arcforge repository. They guide architecture, AI-agent, authentication, and review tasks and specify which project files and checks must be followed.
Why use it?
They help agents choose the correct workflow and keep the skills usable across Claude Code, Codex, and other compatible tools.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is d4rkNinja/arcforge's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on arcforge 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 arcforge configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to d4rkNinja/arcforge. 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/d4rkNinja/arcforge/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/d4rkNinja/arcforge

Made for: Claude Code.

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Security

Grade A, and why

arcforge 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 · 42 lines

What it actually says

Claude Code Repository Instructions

Read AGENTS.md as the repository source of truth.

This is a portable Agent Skills repository. Keep all eighteen skills runtime-neutral and do not add native Claude Code plugins, hooks, agents, or a separate harness configuration unless the user explicitly requests a new distribution format.

Route work by skill:

Routing layer (use when the owning skill, the mode, or the order is not settled):

  • pick the skill, the mode, the companions, and the order, then continue into the work -> skills/using-forge/SKILL.md;
  • answer which skill, which mode, and what order, then stop, with nothing inspected or changed -> skills/think-forge/SKILL.md.

Architecture layer:

  • general system design -> skills/system-architecture-harness/SKILL.md;
  • LLM, RAG, memory, tools, or agents -> skills/ai-agent-system-architecture/SKILL.md;
  • architecture review or approval -> skills/architecture-review-gate/SKILL.md.
  • concrete pull request, merge request, commit range, patch, or repository-diff review with findings, fixes, false-positive disposition, verdict, and instruction-derived score -> skills/pull-request-review-gate/SKILL.md.

Domain thinking layer (select think, review, change, or verify and read the routed papers before making claims):

  • identity, authentication, sessions, permissions, tenancy -> skills/auth-access/SKILL.md;
  • APIs, validation, errors, pagination, versioning, webhooks, realtime, SDKs -> skills/api-contracts/SKILL.md;
  • schemas, identifiers, money, time, indexes, files, search, lifecycle -> skills/data-storage/SKILL.md;
  • transactions, locking, idempotency, sagas, sharding, distributed locks -> skills/transactions-consistency/SKILL.md;
  • jobs, queues, events, outbox, batch, email, notifications -> skills/async-messaging/SKILL.md;
  • caching, rate limiting, quotas, retries, timeouts, breakers, backpressure -> skills/resilience-flow-control/SKILL.md;
  • secrets, crypto, TLS, sensitive data, redaction, abuse, randomness -> skills/security-privacy/SKILL.md;
  • logging, metrics, tracing, health, audit, runbooks, backup/DR, multi-region -> skills/production-operations/SKILL.md;
  • schema/data/contract migration, backfills, cutover, legacy integration -> skills/migration-evolution/SKILL.md;
  • test strategy, concurrency/failure/load evidence, release checklist -> skills/quality-release/SKILL.md;
  • config, connection pools, graceful shutdown, deploy ordering, CI/CD -> skills/runtime-delivery/SKILL.md;
  • branches, commits, merges, rebases, remotes, tags, versions, protected refs, history rewrites, Git recovery -> skills/git-workflows/SKILL.md.

Domain papers live in each skill's references/papers/. When a canonical paper changes, update every owning skill copy with it and review semantic parity and links; do not hand-edit only one side.

Use the Skills CLI for installation checks and restart Claude Code when a newly created top-level skill directory is not visible in the current session.

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.

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  2. 1mo ago First seen · 41 lines · 644 tokens per session scan A 1a48b6e66092

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arcforge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository d4rkNinja/arcforge (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 691 tokens to every session, about $0.0028 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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