chealth CLAUDE.md

Project instructions for chealth, a Python command-line tool and Claude Code plugin that checks CLAUDE.md files against a set of best-practice rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing chealth checks, running all or selected tests, checking instruction files, producing JSON results, and maintaining the check-registration system.
Why use it?
They explain how to build, test, extend, and run the checks consistently instead of guessing how the project is organized.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/danielithomas/chealth/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielithomas/chealth
Per session 756 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 756 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00756 $0.00756
Opus 5 $0.00378 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00151 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00076 $0.00076

Measured yesterday against content hash 21e9370355b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chealth 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 yesterday.

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 · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 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 Purpose

chealth is a CLI tool and Claude Code plugin that checks CLAUDE.md files against Anthropic best practices (20 rules). The CLI runs deterministic checks; the plugin skill adds semantic analysis powered by Claude.

Language & Tooling

  • Language: Python 3.10+
  • Package manager: uv
  • Build backend: hatchling

Build & Test

  • uv run chealth . — check this project's CLAUDE.md
  • uv run chealth --format json . — JSON output for automation
  • uv run chealth --check line-count . — run a specific check only
  • uv run pytest — run all tests
  • uv run pytest tests/test_checks/test_line_count.py — run a single test file

Architecture

Check System

Checks implement a Check Protocol (structural typing, no inheritance) with name, description, rule_reference attributes and a run(ctx: CheckContext) -> list[CheckResult] method. Each check lives in its own module under src/chealth/checks/ and self-registers via @register() at import time. All check modules must be imported in cli.py:_load_checks() to trigger registration.

Two-Phase Execution (runner.py)

  1. Priority checks always run first regardless of --check filters: file-discovery populates ctx.discovered_files, import-resolution populates ctx.import_targets. These hydrate CheckContext for all subsequent checks.
  2. Standard checks run after context is populated, respecting any --check filter.

Exit codes: 0 = all pass, 1 = worst is WARN, 2 = worst is DANGER. Severity is an IntEnum enabling max() to compute the worst result.

Key Utilities (checks/__init__.py)

  • read_file_safe(path) — tries utf-8, utf-8-sig, latin-1 encodings
  • strip_code_blocks(content) — removes fenced code blocks to prevent false positives in pattern-matching checks

Plugin Integration

.claude-plugin/plugin.json declares the skill. skills/chealth/SKILL.md defines the plugin workflow: run deterministic CLI checks (JSON), then perform semantic analysis using skills/chealth/reference.md (the 20-rule guide). Each check's rule_reference traces back to a specific best-practice rule.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. yesterday First seen · 68 lines · 756 tokens per session scan A 21e9370355b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chealth CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository danielithomas/chealth (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 756 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 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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