ArchitectKB: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ArchitectKB CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB. It costs 12,218 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for Claude Code covering language rules, model selection, documentation processing, research, reviews, and task management. It is intended for one specific repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Claude Code when working in the ArchitectKB repository, especially for document processing, research, code review, planning, and task capture.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent consistent working rules for that project, including UK English output and suggested models for different tasks.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 $0.12218 $0.12218
Opus 5 $0.06109 $0.06109
Sonnet 5 $0.02444 $0.02444
Haiku 4.5 $0.01222 $0.01222

Measured 5d ago against content hash 37be1fa605a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ArchitectKB 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 5d 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 · 1,312 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,312 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 this repository.

Language

All generated text must be in UK English.

Model Preferences

At the start of each new question thread, ask which Claude model the user would like to use (unless they explicitly specify one). Use this guidance:

  • Haiku: Fast research, straightforward queries, quick analysis
  • Sonnet: Balanced for complex tasks, code review, planning
  • Opus: Deep analysis, complex multi-step tasks, extended reasoning

Model Selection Guide

Use this rubric for automatic model selection when users don't specify:

Task Type Model Rationale
Quick capture (/daily, /meeting, /task, /person) Haiku Speed, low cost, simple templates
Research & exploration (read-only search) Haiku subagents Parallel execution, isolated context
Document processing (/pdf-to-page, /pptx-to-page) Sonnet Balanced extraction quality
Code review, analysis, summarisation Sonnet Good reasoning, moderate cost
Architecture decisions, ADRs Opus Deep analysis, extended thinking
Complex multi-step orchestration Sonnet coordinator + Haiku workers Cost-effective parallelism
Vendor evaluation (/score-rfi) Sonnet Consistent scoring, parallel agents
Quality reports, audits Sonnet Comprehensive analysis

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,312 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. 5d ago First seen · 1,312 lines · 12,218 tokens per session scan A 37be1fa605a7

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ArchitectKB CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB (52 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12,218 tokens to every session, about $0.0611 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 2026-09-03.

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