life-context: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

life-context CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from dan-pugsley/life-context. It costs 459 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for an AI assistant that stores and uses structured information about a person’s life, such as health, exercise, and personal context.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for navigating personal records, entering life data, importing supporting documents, and answering questions using the right context.
Why use it?
It helps the assistant find relevant information, keep related areas connected, and add new data consistently. It also guides step-by-step onboarding when information is missing.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is dan-pugsley/life-context's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on life-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 life-context configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dan-pugsley/life-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.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dan-pugsley/life-context

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Fable 5.1 $0.00459 $0.00459
Opus 5 $0.00230 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00092 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00046 $0.00046

Measured 7d ago against content hash 529ab769d486, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

life-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 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 · 36 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Life

Structured AI context store for personal life data. See _template.md for structural conventions.

  1. Read root README.md for structure overview
  2. Read root profile.md for general user context
  3. Navigate to the domain relevant to the user's question
  4. Each folder's README.md orients you — read it before exploring further

Cross-cutting context

Before answering, consider whether sibling domains have relevant context. Check their READMEs to assess relevance.

Data entry

  • Prefer AI-mediated data entry. Ask clarifying questions to ensure quality.
  • If a profile.md is empty, offer to run the onboarding.md for that domain.
  • Onboarding must run top-down: root profile before health, health before exercise, etc. Do not offer to skip or reorder — each level's profile informs the next.
  • Reference parent profiles during onboarding to avoid redundant questions.
  • Capture all useful information the user provides, even if not explicitly covered by the onboarding playbook. The playbook is a minimum, not a ceiling.
  • When the user mentions supporting documents (MRI reports, diagnostic reports, images), proactively offer to import them into the relevant assets/ folder.
  • The user may also edit files directly.
  • Avoid writing computed values that go stale (e.g., write date of birth, not age). Let the AI calculate derived values at query time.

Living state vs. stable profile

Volatile facts — current injury restrictions, rehab progression stages, working loads, bodyweight, current training block — live in status.md, the single source of truth. Reference status.md from plans, READMEs, and workouts; never restate its contents. Keep it current as state changes. Stable facts (identity, history, baseline benchmarks, preferences) stay in profile.md.

Proactive maintenance

As new information arises — from events, issues, or conversation — keep the relevant profile.md, status.md, and README.md files up-to-date, including adding new children sections and updating summaries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 36 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.

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life-context CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository dan-pugsley/life-context (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 459 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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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