FOUNDATION: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

FOUNDATION CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from danielterra/FOUNDATION. It costs 6,973 tokens per session, scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A set of Claude Code instructions for the FOUNDATION project. It defines assistant rules, project principles, design defaults, and the meaning of project-specific terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Claude Code while working on FOUNDATION and keep its behaviour aligned with the project's documented conventions.
Why use it?
It gives the coding assistant consistent project context instead of requiring those rules and definitions to be repeated in every task.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Opus 5 $0.03487 $0.03487
Sonnet 5 $0.01395 $0.01395
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Security

Grade A, and why

FOUNDATION CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- If a Foundation MCP tool is unavailable, ALWAYS first verify the dev server is alive (`pm2 describe foundation-dev` + `Get-Process FOUNDATION`) — Claude OWNS the lifecycle, so if it is down START it via `/server-start`
CLAUDE.md · 191 lines

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Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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What this file has done since we first saw it

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FOUNDATION CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository danielterra/FOUNDATION (19 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 6,973 tokens to every session, about $0.0349 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.

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